For an enterprise to gain a foothold in the market, it must continuously ensure that its product quality meets customer requirements, satisfying customers and gradually building an outstanding and lasting quality reputation. After establishing and implementing an effective electroplating product quality assurance system, the enterprise's ability to compete in the market and the effectiveness of its management will be further enhanced. The electroplating product quality assurance system consists of three aspects: the equipment support system, the technical support system, and the management support system. These three aspects are interdependent, mutually restrictive, and mutually promoting.
I. Equipment Support System
- Reasonably select electroplating equipment (including machines, equipment, electroplating rectifiers, tools, and fixtures).
- Equipment maintenance is a necessary condition for ensuring electroplating production. Here, the maintenance of fixtures is taken as an example for illustration.Storage: After use, fixtures should be thoroughly cleaned and properly stored to avoid being eroded by acid and alkali gases. Removing Excessive Plating Layers: When there are excessive plating layers on the fixtures, use appropriate stripping solutions to remove the plating layers or strip them off with wire pliers. Repair: Damaged and upturned insulating rubber should be repaired in a timely manner. Otherwise, it will not only affect the normal deposition of workpieces but also carry the solution from the previous process into the solution of the next process, contaminating the solution in the next process. Damage Prevention: Fixtures should be stored categorically to prevent random stacking and placement, and to avoid damage caused by mutual hooking.
Technical Support System
- The Unification of Technical Reliability and Process Integrity is the Key to Improving Electroplating Quality: Merely having advanced equipment in electroplating production is not enough. To improve electroplating quality, technical reliability and process integrity must be coordinated with advanced equipment to ensure quality. For example, how to pre - treat the plated parts, the magnitude of current/voltage, the selection of electroplating additives, and the application of brighteners.
- The Circulating and Stirring Technology of Electroplating Solution is an Important Link in Stabilizing and Improving Electroplating Quality： In electroplating production, plated parts with high - quality requirements are all completed in flowing plating solutions. Different circulating and stirring methods yield different results, such as air stirring, cathode movement method, and filtration and circulation stirring method using a filter.
- Filtration of Electroplating Solution is a Potential Factor that Cannot be Ignored in Improving Electroplating Quality： To improve the quality of electroplating products, the filtration of plating solutions is a potential factor that cannot be ignored. Filtration efforts must be intensified; the clearer the plating solution, the better the electroplating quality.