When an aircraft is manufactured, every single portion of the plane or jet is designed to be able to be serviced and repaired for the next 20-30 years. Aircraft manufacturing OEMs are building...
February 2020 | Pierce Geary
When an aircraft is manufactured, every single portion of the plane or jet is designed to be able to be serviced and repaired for the next 20-30 years. Aircraft manufacturing OEMs are building...
Electronics, Cleaning Processes, Surface Testing
January 2020 | Pierce Geary
Defining “clean” is actually more complicated than it sounds. Cleanliness can be in the eye of the beholder (I mean, we all had a college roommate who swore they were tidy, but let’s be honest…)...
January 2020 | Pierce Geary
BTG Labs exists to solve adhesion problems in manufacturing no matter how long they’ve persisted, how complex their root causes may be, or what industry they manifest in. Toward this end we have...
Electronics, Surface Treatment, Surface Preparation
January 2020 | Pierce Geary
The field of printed circuit board finishing and bonding methods has been growing and diversifying for decades. The design of PCBs depends heavily on the use and environment of the electronic...
Adhesion Process, Automotive, Electronics
January 2020 | Pierce Geary
Form-in-place-gaskets (FIPG) have been a revolutionary advancement in industries that bank on high-reliability sealing applications. FIPG is a versatile sealing technique that deploys a mostly...
Adhesion Process, Aerospace, Surface Preparation
January 2020 | Lydia Supinger
At BTG Labs, it's a daily occurrence for us to have a conversation with a customer who, when explaining the reasoning behind using a particular cleaning method or surface preparation material,...
Adhesion Process, Aerospace, Electronics
December 2019 | Lydia Supinger
The factors that have a high impact on the success of adhesion processes are not always what they seem. Over the years we've discovered that contamination of surfaces that leads to adhesion...
Aerospace, Composites, Surface Preparation
December 2019 | Pierce Geary
A lot goes into painting an aircraft. This massive, multi-stage process begins long before that final, shiny topcoat you see on the wings and tail is applied. The components are molded, then...
Adhesion Process, Electronics, Surface Preparation
December 2019 | Pierce Geary
Electronic components consist of many exposed and delicate pieces that leave them vulnerable. A lot is relying on these fragile parts to function without fail. From implantable medical devices to...
Aerospace, Automotive, Composites
December 2019 | Pierce Geary
One of the most pressing questions on the minds of manufacturing engineers is how to take a load off. Lightweighting, or shedding pounds on assembled vehicles and machinery, is a critical puzzle...
November 2019 | Pierce Geary
It's been a wonderful year at BTG Labs and we'd like to take a moment to reflect on some of the things we're most proud of and grateful for. We've helped a lot of companies overcome what seemed to...
Every adhesion problem is unique. The path to understanding your solution will be too. It all starts with us walking your production line to identify your Critical Control Points that affect adhesion; the first step in constructing your Adhesion Process Roadmap to diagnose the root cause of failures
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