布赖顿科学 and Hubbard-Hall Partner on Data-Driven Cleaning Program

Infinity 表面清洗 Program offers 数据驱动的 approach to preparing surfaces for bonding, adhesion and 涂层.

斯科特·弗朗西斯，主编, Products Finishing (Published 12/8/2022)

Innovation comes in many forms and is not always based on a new product or technology, but instead on collaboration. 最近 Hubbard-Hall (康涅狄格州沃特伯里.), 布赖顿科学 (辛辛那提, Ohio) announced such a partnership aimed at helping Hubbard-Hall expand its services and accelerate the speed at which customers can innovate. The two companies’ initiative, known as the Infinity 表面清洗 Intelligence Program, combines 布赖顿科学’s technologies and materials science knowledge with Hubbard-Hall’s chemistry and cleaning knowledge.

The goal of the Infinity 表面清洗 Intelligence Program is to solve, 防止, and control the variables and risks manufactures face when preparing surfaces for bonding and adhesion. The program is designed to ensure that critical cleaning processes are predictable, 数据驱动的, and enable innovation to match customers’ ever-changing surface cleanliness needs.

“We want to help our customers use less chemistry,” says Molly Kellogg, Hubbard-Hall chairman, 总裁兼首席执行官. “By partnering with 布赖顿科学, we can use their technology to validate cleanliness and help our customers achieve better control and predictability around cleaning. The goal is to finally bring scientific control to high-value cleaning operations.”

布赖顿科学 designs high-precision instruments that bring unprecedented visibility to surfaces. The company’s flagship solution is a surface inspection device that allows manufacturers to rapidly quantify the quality of material surfaces after cleaning processes and before applications such as bonding, 涂层, 密封, painting or printing. The Surface analyst is available in handheld and automated designs and the company also offers custom solutions. 安德鲁Reeher, Chief Executive Officer at 布赖顿科学, explains how the company is partnering its expertise with Hubbard-Hall:

“What’s exciting about our relationship with Hubbard-Hall is the match between their technology and ours,他说. “Many organizations are striving to improve the sustainability of their manufacturing processes. 在回应, Hubbard-Hall is offering a new aqueous alternative for cleaning that is far more environmentally friendly than traditional methods. But customers aren’t willing to sacrifice quality. That’s where our solution comes in.”

There are two versions of the program. The first is the Infinity Brighton Specification Package, a proactive solution meant for those who have yet to invest in a cleaning line. 布赖顿科学 provides a set of cleaning specification parameters to be measured by its surface analyst technologies. With those parameters defined, customers have access to material science Ph.D.-level consultants to solve, 防止 and control critical surface cleaning challenges, improve value engineering and optimize the cleaning process.

The second program version is the Infinity Optimizer Package, which focuses on optimizing and innovating an existing cleaning process through consultations with Hubbard-Hall and 布赖顿科学 experts. The conversations center around value engineering and how it can positively affect a cleaning process and establish process specifications.

“Since our technology can estimate the surface energy of the part after cleaning, advisors from Hubbard-Hall are able to use our measurement system to demonstrate the efficacy of their solution,Reeher说, “Hubbard-Hall can demonstrate the business fit and benefits, while our technology also creates ways for customers to control the performance of a more challenging process once they are in production.”