Color Harmony for Automotive Part Suppliers 

Color is becoming more important in car designs, adding complexities for both manufacturers and part suppliers. To set clear expectations, automotive 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: 

• Communicate and verify color specifications to set clear expectations. 
• Evaluate special effect finishes found on exterior automotive painted parts 60% faster to reduce rejections.
• Identify color defects on parts early in the manufacturing process to avoid unnecessary repair costs.
• Increase initial match rate by up to 50% and cut color correction steps in half.