Color is becoming more important in car designs, adding complexities for both manufacturers and part suppliers. To set clear expectations, manufacturers must specify both color and appearance and establish strict color tolerances for each colored component. To ensure color acceptability with the automotive manufacturer, part suppliers must control and produce color accurate parts, regardless of material type.
For part suppliers, achieving harmony between substrates like coatings, plastic, rubber, fabric and leather is a challenge. However, it’s important to manufacturers because mismatched color can slow time to market and impact a significant number of vehicles. How do part suppliers deliver color accurate parts and avoid costly rejections? To control and manage color consistency, part suppliers need reliable solutions to measure color and ensure harmony between parts before shipping to the manufacturer.
Customizable tools from X-Rite enable part suppliers to:
A reliable and easy-to-use quality control program ensures color is within tolerance, reducing manufacturer rejections. Equipping your team with the right color measurement tools will ensure color harmony among all parts at final assembly.
Formulating color can be a lengthy and tedious process, especially with a manual process. X-Rite’s color formulation solutions reduce the number of iterations to get an initial color match on automotive parts and minimize correction steps to save time and money.
Learn how the MA-5 QC handheld spectrophotometer and EFX QC software work together to quickly and efficiently measure a finished part and compare it with digital data. Fill out the form to read the full application brief.
In this free 10-minute webinar, you will learn why a multi-angle is the ideal spectrophotometer to measure special effect surfaces, like metallic and pearlescent.
A color tolerance can ensure consistency and minimize variability. This whitepaper offers tips to select the right color tolerancing method and set a realistic color tolerance.