TechXpert™ Applications Engineers & Services Drive Six Sigma to Create Customer Value
Jason Maupin, Vice President-Enthone Americas
TechXpert is our pledge and responsibility to deliver the best technical applications expertise with every technology. It's included in every Enthone product shipment and every plating bath. TechXpert is the intellectual ingredient that ensures your plated part, printed circuit board, or semiconductor wafer meets stringent industry requirements for corrosion resistance, wear protection, appearance and electrical performance. Whatever your specific market application and OEM requirement, TechXpert delivers maximum functionality, style, value and reliability to a diversity of automotive, electronics, building hardware, decorative, energy and other components.
 

Six Sigma Collaboration Increases Brake Caliper Yields
Enthone Case Study: Acid Zinc and Zinc-Nickel

A Six Sigma project collaboration between Enthone and one of the world's leading automotive chassisproviders resulted in significantly improved production yields, efficiency, product performance-and increased profitability-at the manufacturer's North American brake production facility. The two companies initiated the project by assembling a joint team of Black Belts, including Enthone TechXpert™ application engineers. The group audited the facility's acid zinc and zinc-nickel plating lines-which output over 15 million brake calipers per year-using the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control) data-driven, cycle control methodology.  

Recalls, Future Industry Trends, and Regulations 
Linda Wing, Industry Automotive Manager

In the last issue of enthonews, I shared responses from leading automotive OEMs as they addressed the most difficult decorative chrome plating requirements for suppliers to meet and the Production Part Approval Process (PPAP). This article provides a continuation of the conversation as the discussion turned toward the impact of recalls and regulations on the auto business. Each provided predictions on what the next five years might bring to the decorative chrome plating industry. Questions addressed, included:
  • How have recalls and a renewed focus on quality affected your business?
  • What trends do you foresee over the next five years in decorative chrome plating? 
  • Will chrome plating increase or decrease? Any REACH impact?

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