Chapter 118: Metal Painting is a Matter of Learning

Although the production capacity will be restricted by many factors, but under the existing conditions of the Rising Sun Toy Factory, there are still many ways to increase production capacity, such as increasing workers, increasing shifts, continuing to take further measures to reduce the rate of defective products, appropriately improving the reward system, establishing a model worker, further stimulating the enthusiasm of workers, and improving production efficiency in a short period of time.

At the same time, further reasonable selection of batches can also reduce unnecessary equipment adjustment time and improve equipment utilization, that is, improve the production capacity of equipment, which are the reasons why Cai Zhiming said that the delivery volume can be doubled next month.

"That's really great, as long as your production volume can keep up, our company will produce as much as possible, and we can add three percentage points to the contract purchase price for the extra part......

When is the golden sales period for high-tech products like pagers, it must be when it first goes on the market, not only the shipments are large, but the price must also be at the highest price, at this time, Yao Fei certainly hopes that Cai Zhiming can supply as much as possible to their company.

"Then I'll thank Brother Xie first here, rest assured, Brother has always said that he will do it, the following is the painting workshop, do you want to visit Brother Xie?"

The purchase price of the excess contract quantity increased by an additional three percentage points, that is, 24 Hong Kong dollars, and the profit margin immediately increased by three layers on the original basis, and the smile on Cai Zhiming's face became brighter.

"The dust removal room and welding testing line have been visited, and the painting and packaging lines behind it must also be visited......

Today, Yao Feilai's purpose is very clear, that is, to find out all aspects of Cai Zhiming's Rising Sun Toy Factory's production of pagers, and to ensure that the opening of the base station and the listing of pagers can be carried out as scheduled according to the plan.

"No problem, but before entering the painting workshop, we have to take off this set of dust clothing, the temperature of the painting workshop is relatively high, otherwise it will be bad to stuffy people......"

Cai Zhiming was in a good mood at this time, and his speech became more humorous than before.

"Guests are as they please, here, everything is according to the rules of your factory......"

Yao Fei knows that the coating workshop is not so easy to enter, the temperature of the coating workshop must be higher than the temperature of the room temperature workshop, and the solvent content in the air is also ridiculously high, and it is also necessary to change the coating protective clothing, otherwise the human skin is in direct contact with chemical coatings, and the health hazards are relatively large.

At this time, the dust clothing is taken off, in order to wear protective clothing after entering the painting workshop, not what high temperature or the like, you don't see all the types of work in the painting workshop, basically every half an hour to an hour, you have to rest for a while, drink water to replenish the water in the body and restore physical strength.

"Director Lu, please introduce us to the various production processes in your workshop, brother, Director Lu was invited by me from Japan's Honda Motor Group with a high salary, and he is a very professional painting expert......

Entering the painting workshop, Lu Jin, the director of the painting workshop, had just received the news and was already waiting in the dressing room at the entrance of the workshop.

After Yao Fei and Cai Zhiming both changed into protective clothing, they led the two to the front of the workshop.

"Good factory, although our workshop is not big, but because the production is a high-strength aluminum-magnesium alloy shell, so the process is more than that, and it is more complicated, in general, there are a total of 10 processes.

They are degreasing, washing, rust removal, grinding, drying, primer coating, paint matching, topcoat coating, overprint paint coating and baking paint curing.

Degreasing is to remove mineral oil, grease, animal and vegetable grease from aluminum-magnesium alloy materials, which will seriously reduce the adhesion of most coatings, and will affect their drying, and reduce the hardness and gloss of the coating.

Water washing is to rinse with clean water to avoid contamination of the alkali solution used in the oil process to the next rust removal process.

Not to mention rust removal, each metal will produce metal rust, metal rust can promote the spread of corrosion under the coating, so that the coating loses its original shielding and impermeability, and under high temperature and high humidity conditions, it can also lead to early damage to the coating and metal, so that the coating falls off prematurely, so this process is very necessary, we use the lye method and supplemented by ultrasonic cleaning to remove rust.

Polishing, is to further remove the surface of the aluminum-magnesium alloy shell granular impurities and increase a certain roughness in order to better increase the adhesion of the paint, each shell we will polish twice, the first time with 400 water sandpaper, the second time with 800 water sandpaper, as for drying, as the name suggests, it is to dry the water, ready to paint.

The primer, as a primer coating for sealing the substrate, is used to improve the anti-penetration ability of the coating, enhance the protection of the substrate, stabilize the metal surface layer, strengthen the adhesion between the topcoat and the metal surface, and can ensure the uniformity of the pigment of the topcoat coating.

In this process, we need to spray the primer on the sanded casing three times, and if we do not spray once, we need to send it to a dust-free and constant temperature paint room for drying.

Paint matching is the configuration and the prototype shell consistent with the metallic paint, the prototype shell pattern how many colors, then must be matched with how many kinds of metallic paint.

The topcoat spraying process, on the one hand, is to make the appearance of the casing meet the design requirements, protect the metal surface from the external environment erosion, prevent ultraviolet penetration, on the other hand, it can also greatly enhance the anti-aging ability of the casing, the topcoat is the thickest layer of paint in spraying, it needs to be sprayed four times, and each spray side also needs to be sent to the dust-free constant temperature baking paint room for drying, and the surface must be polished after each drying.

As for the overprint paint spraying, generally known as varnish coating, the main purpose is to more effectively enhance the paint layer's ability to resist external erosion, protect the topcoat coating, increase the metallic luster of the topcoat color, make the appearance of the color more distinct, become dazzling, after spraying, it also needs to be sent to the dust-free constant temperature paint room for drying......"

Director Lu Jin first introduced the role and principle of each production process of the painting workshop to the two in detail, and then took the two to visit and verify.

In the paint room, Yao Fei finally saw a variety of quasi-finished pager shells that have been processed through the whole process, not only complete in seven colors, but also with a simple pattern appearance of the shell, compared to the floppy disk and floppy disk drive, which is only silver-gray, it is really pleasing to the eye.

"Director Lu, do you have any good ways to prevent physical scratches?"

Scratches, this is a problem that the pager will encounter if you are a little careless in the process of use, and it will definitely become the focus of after-sales, since the other party is an expert, Yao Fei hopes that the other party can have any good ideas and opinions.

"Aluminum-magnesium alloy is an irreparable material, and if there is a scratch, my suggestion is to sandpaper it until the scratch is flat, then it is sanded with abrasive wax, and then polished after it is bad.

Of course, there is also a relatively simple and effective method, which is to do the case beauty, which is the method I usually use to solve metal scratches when I work in Japan, the cheap ones can only require a sticker, and the most expensive ones are just refurbished ......"