Reducing Operational Costs, Environmental Impact Via Rigorous Plating/Finishing Analysis

摘要

In good economic times, there is not as much motivation for a business to take a hard look at the cost of their plating or finishing processes. With fierce competition from overseas, and a weak economy, the need to look at these processes becomes much more important. Surprisingly enough, once the real costs associated with plating and finishing lines are known, there are many options available to reduce some or all of those costs, and the economic paybacks can be very short. We will present the methodology used by the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute at Rochester Institute of Technology to determine the baseline costs of the finishing operation. Potential improvement methods or technologies will be presented for each area typically found in any finishing line.