Automotive to Aerospace: Applying Automotive Paint Spray Booth Design Strategies to an Aircraft Paint Hangar

摘要

Given today's economic pressures and renewed focus on the environment, paint finishers are looking more closely than ever at alternate technologies and processes to achieve a sustainable painting operation. This has particularly been true for automobile paint finishers, where over the past decade new strategies and technologies have been developed to improve efficiency and flexibility, reduce capital and operating costs and minimize environmental impact of the paint shop, while at the same time delivering a world class paint finish. Now, a trend is developing within the aerospace paint finishing industry in which aircraft manufacturers are beginning to adopt strategies developed and proven by automotive paint finishers to improve quality and reduce operating costs of their paint finishing facilities.