X-Rite showcased how a digital colour workflow helps coating manufacturers accelerate colour formulation, ensure an accurate colour match, avoid colour rejections, create digital material renderings, and improve customer satisfaction. In addition, X-Rite presented a session on appearance characterisation for effect and structured coatings.
‘The complexity of using new bio-based and recycled material and the need for a more sustainable and efficient manufacturing process is driving innovation in colour measurement,’ said Matthew Adby, Product Management Director, X-Rite. ‘At Western Coatings Show, attendees learnt how X-Rite measurement devices go beyond spectral measurements to characterise material appearance and connect to a digital workflow, streamlining colour communication, formulation and quality control. Manufacturers can eliminate subjective colour communication and assessment that often ends with unnecessary waste, reduce the need for physical prototypes, and verify colour is on target through all stages of the manufacturing process.’
At the Western Coatings Show, October 15-18, in Las Vegas, NV, X-Rite displayed the latest colour measurement and appearance solutions for every stage of the design to production process.
Visitors could see the latest colour measurement technology and learn which X-Rite spectrophotometer is best for their application. They could also speak with experts on creating digital colour standards that can be shared across the global supply chain.
Users can create virtual prototypes by leveraging spectral and imaging data to render original paint and coating colour and texture onto a 3D model using X-Rite PANTORA™ software. Economically digitise the appearance of coatings using the X-Rite Ci7000 Series, MA-T12, and MetaVue VS3200 spectrophotometers, and create a digital library of colours for use in virtual prototyping to visualise colours on different substrates for faster product development and quality control.
Users can remove subjectivity from colour formulation using advanced formulation software that can increase the colour match rate by 50 percent. Colour iMatch delivers optimal initial colour matches, reduces wasteful formulation attempts, and optimises pigment costs.
In the X-Rite innovation session on characterising effect and structured coating, attendees heard how portable measurement devices now include Spatially Varying Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (SVBRDF), which is used to characterise and control multiple appearance attributes such as sparkle, flip and flop, roughness, and texture. These material appearance properties can now be communicated throughout a workflow from design visualisation through the supply chain for quality control. This allows for accurate virtual prototyping and quality control, eliminating wasteful iterations in the design, physical prototyping and manufacturing process.
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