The market for consumer electronics is extremely competitive. The product-to-product distinctions aren't obvious—there doesn't seem to be any difference between different phones, tablets, digital cameras. Only when consumers look closely can they see the difference. Color is one of the first things they notice. Vibrant colors can make a great first impression and make your product stand out from the crowd. Color helps products reflect their individuality, meets the growing individual needs of consumers for products, and makes it more difficult for potential customers to resist its charm.
Getting exactly the color you want is one of the challenges in today's market. Because consumer electronic products are usually designed with irregular shapes and small volumes, it is difficult to guarantee the color accuracy of the products. Some manufacturers try to create colorful special effect shells. But that can be costly, especially if there's no reliable way to ensure product color consistency.
Accurately describe colors and ensure color accuracy
Sex is the foundation of a product's success. And X-Rite is a global leader in color science and technology (including PANTONE, the world's largest color standard provider), which uses measurement systems, software, color standards and services to develop, manufacture, market and Support innovative color management solutions including color measurement systems, supporting software, color standards and services. X-Rite's expertise in inspiration, selection, measurement, color matching, communication and color matching helps users choose the right color the first time and every time, resulting in better quality and lower costs. X-Rite's services span a variety of industries, including printing, packaging, photography, graphic design, video, automotive, coatings, plastics, textiles, dental and medical. With professional advantages to help users get the desired color accurately, timely and effectively.
To ensure the stability of color quality, QC/QA (Quality Inspection/Quality Assurance) runs through the entire process of product development and production, including incoming material inspection, production quality inspection and final quality inspection. In the quality inspection work, the problems that suppliers and manufacturers may encounter are:
Raw materials affect the difference between the appearance color of the final product and the customer's standard color The influence of the shape and surface texture of the final product; different QC/QA processes of suppliers/manufacturers; differences in the standards of incoming materials, production, and final product QC/QA of suppliers/manufacturers ;
Differences in QC/QA personnel's business level; different color vision; fatigue after long hours of work.
control stable color
Ensure the color stability of different raw materials;
Ensure the execution color quality of different raw material suppliers;
Control to reduce color variation in laboratory small batches and production large batches;
Color changes in different batches; effective management of suppliers (review, on-site inspection, etc.).
In order to help users meet these challenges, X-Rite officially launched the portable image spectroColorimeter RM200QC to the market in September 2012. In order to test the applicability of the product in the market and widely collect user experience feedback, the RM200QC conducted a prototype test at the Gusong Plastic Parts Mold Factory under the Gusong Enterprise Group. This instrument was tested in plastic manufacturers in South CHINA, including Taiwan, CHINA The factory of Gusong Enterprise Group, a listed company, is located in Chang'an Town, Dongguan, Guangdong Province - Gusong Plastic Parts Mold Factory, which specializes in the manufacture of plastic parts and is a supporting supplier for many export companies. With the progress of the trial, X-Rite's new product manager and Gu Song's RM200QC trial quality inspection and quality assurance personnel had a face-to-face discussion in Shenzhen to exchange the general situation of the new product trial. The horsepower of this magazine was honored to be invited by X-Rite, and also attended this symposium, so as to understand the characteristics .
"In the past, electronic products with plastic parts were black and white, with a single color, and color detection was easy. However, with consumers' demand for color and the rapid update of many electronic products, more and more colors are applied to electronic products. Among the components, although the diverse needs of consumers are met, it is more difficult for the color detection in the production process. It is difficult to meet the mass production and ensure the accuracy only by the previous manual measurement method, so it is urgently needed A color testing instrument suitable for R&D and production." Said Hu Yuping, deputy director of Gusong Quality Assurance Department.
The measurement and control of color has always been a key issue in the production of plastic products enterprises. The analysis of color can be said to be the most direct factor for the appearance of a plastic product to be favored by consumers. For electronic products, due to the high precision of the products, the product specifications are not large, and the shapes are mainly irregular, so the difficulty of measurement will increase accordingly.
Hu Yuping said: "Our electronic products mainly include precision components such as mobile phones, cameras, and game consoles, and the production volume of the products is particularly large, so there is a lot of work for color detection and analysis."
X-Rite's RM200QC is specially developed for the color analysis of plastic products, which can meet the color QC or QA needs of large quantities of products on the production site. In high-speed production of electronic products,
In the past, manual detection of color difference could only be done more than 300 times a day, and the stability was not good. It was often difficult to detect small differences. However, after using the color analyzer, the subtle color analysis of the entire product can not only Accurate analysis is achieved, and the speed of color detection is greatly improved.
Hu Yuping mentioned that in the past month, the preliminary experience is that the color control of X-Rite's testing equipment can meet the production requirements. In the future, he hopes to develop equipment suitable for the testing of plastic parts with finer and more complex shapes. The relevant personnel of X-Rite are also actively cooperating with customers to meet higher testing requirements. The color control management combined with the use of desktop computers in the laboratory to formulate color standards and the use of portable RM200QC Spectrophotometer s for real-time detection at the production site can meet Gusong's high standard requirements. When the horse power of this magazine proposed to Hu Yuping as RM200QC
When issuing the request for scoring, he said pertinently: "I can give 90 points!" Hu Yuping also proposed some improvement suggestions to X-Rite staff, such as connecting a simple printer to print the result report immediately after the test.
X-Rite is known for its "positive innovation, trustworthy". Lightweight and easy-to-use, powerful professional color measurement solution can be seamlessly embedded in the workflow of plastic product workshops to quickly detect color quality, ensure efficient production and reduce scrap rate. It is foreseeable that this new product of X-Rite will make great achievements in the color detection of plastic production sites, and record a colorful chapter in the quality improvement of CHINA's plastic industry.
