Your questions
OFG-Analytik provides important informations to solve problems related with production failure, product and process development and quality management. A small selection of typical questions that we routinely deal with for our clients can be found under the following points.
Failure analysis
- What are the reasons for adhesion and wetting failure during painting, coating, printing, sealing, …?
- Why do craters, bubbles, inclusions occur in coatings?
- Which effects lead to material discolouration?
- What are unwanted coatings, efflorescence, deposits made of?
- What causes the product surface to become discolored?
- What is the cause of localized corrosion?
- Which contaminants promote stress cracking?
- Why do components show increased wear/abrasion?
- Why do electrical contacts fail?
- Which contaminants reduce the activity of a catalyst?
- Between which layer areas does debonding or fracture occur (cohesive/adhesive fracture)?
Material characterization and
control of process steps
- What is the composition of the material used?
- Does the chemical composition of raw materials meet the specifications?
- What is the chemical composition of plastics, polymers, biomolecules, pharamceuticals?
- Which structure and composition do fibres, particles have?
- Which additives are contained in the high-performance oils used?
- What is the composition of inorganic or organic trace contaminations?
- How effective is a newly developed cleaning process?
- Which chemical changes are induced by plasma treatment?
- Is the release agent silicon free?
