Cutting Costs on Gold Plated Screw Machine Parts
Have you seen the price of gold lately? It’s literally off the charts – smashing record highs. This comes at a time when cost reduction is on everyone’s mind. Good news. Selective loose piece plating could help cut costs if your screw machine parts qualify. With selective plating, the gold is precisely deposited only where…
Selective Reel To Reel Plating: Benefits, Applications and Methods
Selective reel to reel plating is a unique process that allows for precise deposit of metal on stamped product. It provides several valuable benefits that other plating methods do not. Reel to reel is often the process of choice when plating connectors used in data, telecommunications, or similar applications. In general, this selective plating process…
Gold vs Silver Plating for Electronic Connectors and Contacts
Gold and silver are among the most popular finishes for plating electronic components such as connectors and contacts. Why? They are the most noble (aka stable) metals, though each comes with its own set of benefits and drawbacks. When considering the crucial role that contacts and connectors play within an electrical system – it’s important…
Five Things to Look for in an Industrial Plating Supplier
It’s not very often that you go looking for a new supplier for a particular service or product. Though certain situations do call for it. For instance, your current supplier may not provide exactly what you need. Or perhaps it’s time to do some comparative shopping – especially in the current environment. Maybe your supplier…
The Road to Nadcap Certification
In our previous blog, we reviewed what Nadcap is, its benefits and challenges, and why it’s important. Today, we explore the lessons we learned on our journey to becoming certified. To become Nadcap accredited, you must start with understanding the requirements, and taking a tremendous amount of preparation to achieve them. You’ll need to pass…
What is Nadcap? Why Should You Care?
Nadcap is an accreditation program driven by a stringent set of standards, established by the consensus of both experts from the government and private industry, for OEMs and suppliers operating in the aerospace and defense fields. According to the Performance Review Institute (PRI), the governing body for Nadcap, “only the best companies can achieve [it]”….
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