Article | REF: M1423 V1

How to solve a surface treatment problem

Authors: Jean-Paul TERRAT, Michel CARTIER

Publication date: March 10, 2000

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2. Designer-applicator relations

When faced with a surface problem, the design or methods engineer must answer the following questions in succession:

  • what surface properties are required?

  • how to get them?

  • at what cost?

To accomplish this task, it can adopt two strategies:

2.1 Strategy A

The designer is familiar with this type of problem and has already encountered it. He chooses to apply and prescribe a "recipe" that he has already experienced with satisfaction, in a previous situation; in so doing, he takes responsibility for his decision and orders from his subcontractor the treatment he has chosen, specifying the nature of the coating or...

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