Consistency in curing - control of the curing process contributes to confirmation of cure quality

摘要

Call it curing by numbers. Temperature profiling, the process of recording and interpreting temperatures of products as they proceed through a curing oven, is now seen as an integral tool for a majority of finishers. For many years, the curing oven was left alone to heat the painted or powder coated part. Not much thought was given to the final cure, unless defects caught the eye. If the finished product looked cured, on to shipping it went.