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The Importance of Plating Temperature: A controllable variable in brush plating

While most brush plating solutions produce high quality deposits when plated in the plating temperature range of 60 °F to 120 °F, a few solutions must be plated within a tighter temperature range or at higher temperatures to provide the desired thickness, quality, and deposit characteristics (e.g., alloy composition). In addition to having the solution […]

The Evolution of Automation in Selective Plating

Selective plating is a well-established and reliable process which has already been written into multiple aerospace specifications. It not only exceeds the fundamental requirements of aircraft manufacturing, repair and maintenance processes, it also provides a full circle of benefits, including quality, durability, cost saving, portability and time saving. But by automating the selective plating process […]

The Brush Plating Repair Approval Process in Aerospace: A Review

Every day the skies host thousands of flights consisting of aircrafts both small and large carrying up to 800 passengers to their desired destinations. As the fleet size increases, the need for regularly scheduled overhaul, repair and OEM maintenance skyrockets. For several decades, selective brush plating has been an approved process in aircraft maintenance by […]

Tank Chromium Part II: What are my alternatives?

Do you used hard chromium? Did you know certain brush plating deposits have similar deposit properties of hard chromium and if properly matched with the right type of application, can serve as viable alternatives. Applications specifying hard chromium plating should be evaluated on a case by case basis to determine if hard chromium is absolutely […]

Taking the Mask Off of Labor Rates

When completing selective plating repair applications, each component may have multiple areas to mask. In a recent engine block repair in the Automotive industry, 200 components needed .002” of nickel to re-size oversized cylinder bores. While the bores needed minimal plating, each area needed layers of masking material to catch the solution and direct it […]

Taking Off: Fully Automated Selective Nickel Plating

Demanding aerospace operating conditions present continual surface finishing challenges for manufacturers. Components need to be able to withstand friction, extreme temperatures and corrosive environments while continuing to operate at optimum levels. For Safran Landing Systems, one particular challenge came in the form of a landing gear bogie beam design. Landing gear design includes a stop-pad […]

Surface Engineering for Sustainable Manufacturing and Remanufacturing

Component restoration through surface engineering prolongs service life, improves part performance, reduces investment, saves energy, conserves materials and reduces environmental impact. Brush plating is a surface engineering technology that promotes sustainable manufacturing by reducing waste production, materials and energy consumption, and also provides an economic benefit. Join us at 12pm on Wednesday, June 6 at […]

Strong Bonds: Mechanical vs. Atomic

In honor of Valentine’s Day, we’ve re-posted last year’s article on bonds. “Love is the bond of perfection.” – John Winthrop Fortunately, since we can’t seem to get 2 adjacent surface materials to love one another; a surface bond can be achieved 2 other ways: mechanically and atomically. And the quality of the bond is […]

Stop Losing Steam Over Prolonged Downtime

Derek Vanek, technical manager at SIFCO ASC, looks into how the marine industry can decrease costs and reduce downtime using selective plating methods as an alternative to disassembling components for repair. Typical component problems and issues can include; fretting or wear on bearings fits and flanges due to continuous vibration, extensive wear on bearing cap […]

SIFCO ASC to present on automated plating systems at SUR/FIN®

SIFCO Applied Surface Concepts (ASC), the world’s leading supplier of selective plating technology, will be presenting its automated plating systems at the SUR/FIN® Manufacturing & Technology Trade Show & Conference. The team will be exhibiting its automated system’s ability to improve production efficiency, increase process control and reduce costs in surface finishing operations. With automation […]

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