Does the Electroplating Industry Support Australias Manufacturing Base?
17 Jul 08 The electroplating industry has had some bad press over the years, sometimes for good reason. “It can get embarrassing hearing bad stuff about your industry” says Amanda Wood of A-Class Metal Finishers, SA “sometimes it’s justified but I think sometimes it’s because of the sheer complexity of the processes involved in plating. The plater who is not a good communicator may have trouble conveying the essence of a problem, and appear incompetent” says Wood. “Throw together variables like dozens of tanks, dozens of chemicals, water, electricity, environment, temperature and people, along with a narrow band of control in some processes and you have more combinations of variables to control than many manufacturing processes – and that’s before you even think about the supply chain, the economy, the customer and importantly the product that is to be treated” she says. “I actually think there is a very high level of technical (plating) competence across the industry, but I do feel th
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