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Researchers found that the damage morphology of thick multilayer protective systems under impact loading shows specific patterns.

The response of organic coatings to mechanical impact is crucial to their corrosion protection performance, particularly under offshore conditions. The paper categorizes and discusses four different types of response during the high-energy (3 to 20 J) impact of a falling ball-shaped weight on 14 multilayer organic offshore coating systems. The response types include plastic deformation, brittle (compressive) crushing, radial crack formation, and lateral delamination. Threshold and transition conditions are analyzed based on contact mechanics relationships.

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For the first time, complete force-deflection curves for this type of coating are recorded with an instrumented impact tester. The curves feature four characteristic points, namely a first local force maximum (F_FS), the respective deflection at this force level (δ_FS), a maximum force (F_max), and the respective deflection at this maximum force (δ_max). These characteristic parameters are discussed in terms of coating system composition. Empirical equations for these parameters as well as for the damage size are derived. The results offer opportunities to quantitatively rank organic coatings with respect to their impact resistance.

Source: Journal of Coatings Technology and Research, Volume 21, pages 857–878, (2024)

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San Francisco, CA – June 19th, 2018 – Fictiv today announced its new landmark Agile Manufacturing Solution (AMS), a suite of production manufacturing services for supply chain and engineering teams who need fast, quality end-use parts at high volumes of 100 – 500,000 units. AMS is available today at fictiv.com/agile.

Fictiv’s AMS is designed to make overseas manufacturing more accessible and responsive to shifting market demands, with industry-first features like instant pricing and automated manufacturability feedback for injection molding and high-volume CNC machining services. With the opening of a new headquarters in Guangzhou, China, Fictiv applies its founding principles of efficiency, transparency, and customer-first service experience to AMS, powered by Fictiv’s proprietary cloud-based systems to manage complex data flows. As a result, product teams benefit from a faster, more streamlined way to get parts manufactured domestically or overseas.

“The realities of today’s antiquated manufacturing processes do not align with the demands of modern rapid product design cycles,” said Fictiv CEO and Co-founder Dave Evans. “Many products never make it out onto the shelves because of high upfront costs, minimum order requirements, or delays in working with overseas manufacturing partners. Fictiv’s new AMS unlocks access to high quality manufacturing in China, enabling more products to get to market quickly, affordably and at scale.”

AMS gives product teams access to the same fast, reliable service experience available with Fictiv’s original Rapid Prototyping Solution. With AMS, Fictiv is poised to challenge traditionally veiled, slow-moving overseas manufacturing systems and usher in a new era of transparent, quick-response contract manufacturing.

Fictiv’s AMS delivers the following features:

• Instant baseline pricing and proprietary automated DFM systems for CNC machining and injection molding;
• Online order tracking for visibility on order production and shipment status;
• Vetted overseas supply base with specialization in rapid-response manufacturing, through Fictiv’s headquarters in Guangzhou, China;
• Intelligent routing system to capture project design intent and pair requirements with vetted manufacturing partners who have the right capabilities;
• U.S. and China-based service teams to manage communications and quality control with manufacturers, led by managers with combined 50+ years industry experience;
• ISO 9001-certified quality management systems to standardized quality assurance across all manufacturing partners;

This combination of intelligent automation and access to Fictiv’s manufacturing network shaves months off of traditional volume manufacturing timelines. For example, Fictiv can produce a P20 steel tool capable of molding 100,000 units in just 2 weeks.

“This expansion of our virtual manufacturing platform is a natural way to address customer demand for a single partner to manage their manufacturing requirements from development through production,” continued Evans. “With AMS, Fictiv is now an end-to-end manufacturing solution for product teams, solving for their needs in a way that is unprecedented in the manufacturing industry.”

To learn more about Fictiv Agile Manufacturing, visit www.fictiv.com/agile

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Three new solutions give customers digitally-enabled workflows to drive speed & efficiency across new product development, engineer-to-order, and maintenance, repair, and operations— without compromising quality

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 17, 2022 — Digital Manufacturing Ecosystem Fictiv today launched its Enterprise Business Solutions portfolio, aimed at addressing the most pressing challenges facing product manufacturing leaders. This, the first of many launches, introduces three digitally-enabled solutions that solve new product development, engineer-to-order, and MRO challenges relating to efficiency, speed, and quality.

Following the successful launch of Fictiv’s base Enterprise offering, and early adopter results achieved by Fortune 500 leader Honeywell and hypergrowth advanced manufacturing company Velo3D, Fictiv clients are realizing the benefits of deeper workflow integration with a quality-controlled Digital Manufacturing Ecosystem that operates as a seamless extension of enterprise supply chains.

The partnership between Honeywell and Fictiv solves critical business challenges related to long development cycle times. The manufacturing engineering team at Honeywell Aerospace taps into Fictiv’s Digital Manufacturing Ecosystem for quotes in minutes instead of days and parts in weeks instead of months, reducing engineering cycle times by 50%.

“At all levels, business leaders are telling us they need fast, agile solutions to fix underperforming, sluggish supply chains,” said Bryan Painter, Global Vice President, Enterprise Business Group at Fictiv. “Digital manufacturing is no longer just about rapid prototyping and parts on-demand. It’s about driving real business transformation and changing the way we build products.”

With rising customer expectations and fragile supply chains, product manufacturing companies today are faced with greater pressure than ever to accelerate the pace of innovation. Fictiv provides a fast, simple solution to rationalize and digitally transform companies’ tier 2 and 3 parts supply chains. That means companies get faster time to market, enhanced engineering productivity, improved parts supplier performance, and reduced supply chain management costs integrated seamlessly into their existing business workflows.

Gene Vetter, CEO at TransMed7, said, “Fictiv has been transformational for our business, enabling us to save millions of dollars in infrastructure, people, and time costs when compared to traditional development and supply chain strategies. With Fictiv, we shaved years off of the product development timeframe for our first two devices.”

Fictiv now offers three solutions to transform manufacturing operations in three key areas:

1. NPD Acceleration – Supports engineering teams from early-stage prototypes to production-grade test parts to help companies shorten development cycles, unlock engineering productivity, and launch new products up to 70% faster without compromising quality.
2. ETO Rapid Production – Helps product companies get custom-engineered products in the hands of their most valued customers, faster.
3. MRO Digital Inventory – Helps manufacturing teams rapidly build and replace production-line tools with a cost-efficient maintenance, repair, and operations strategy.

These three solutions are accessible with Fictiv Enterprise, which also offers:

• Preferred partner pricing
• Enhanced IP protection, through Secure+ (network of highly-secure manufacturing partners) and the industry’s only SOC 2-certified digital manufacturing platform
• Professional services for enhanced manufacturing guidance and program management
• Enterprise analytics & reporting

Notable technology analyst and business news commentator, R “Ray” Wang, Founder, Chairman, & Principal Analyst of Constellation Research, has been closely monitoring the digitization of the supply chain and notes, “the chief supply chain officer will digitize on a number of fronts this year to achieve better visibility and insights on three key fronts: 1) risk mitigation 2) supplier rationalization and 3) gain leverage in new areas. Specifically, the areas of investment we are seeing are capturing demand signals through AI for better forecasting predictability, analytics for testing models, and various conditions (‘what if’ scenarios – example ‘what if we can’t get these products made in China?’), and tapping into new digitally-enabled supplier ecosystems, to gain deeper insights and ultimately gain leverage of NPD, ETO, and MRO suppliers – where traditionally the focus has been on economies of scale with mass production suppliers.”

Fictiv’s new Enterprise solutions are available for commercial sale today. To learn more and schedule a consultation, visit www.fictiv.com/enterprise-solutions

About Fictiv
Fictiv is a Digital Manufacturing Ecosystem that rapidly delivers custom mechanical parts on-demand to help teams accelerate new product innovation. Its quality-controlled ecosystem delivers unprecedented manufacturing agility and speed through a digital quote-to-order platform, a highly vetted and managed global partner network, and a team of manufacturing experts that manage programs and inspect quality every step of the way. Different from traditional contract manufacturers, Fictiv’s operations are built around a digital core that leverages proprietary AI algorithms to deliver instant pricing, design for manufacturability feedback, and production transparency. Fictiv’s portfolio of optimized manufacturing services includes 3D printing, CNC machining, urethane casting, and injection molding. Over the last eight years, Fictiv has manufactured 18M parts for early-stage companies and large enterprises alike, helping them innovate with agility and get products to market faster. www.fictiv.com.

Despite OGC Nice President Jean Pierre Rivère stating otherwise, Lyon President Jean Michel Aulas believes that Hatem Ben Arfa wants to join Lyon but that Leicester City are currently in pole position to land the player.

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Speaking to Canal + this evening, Aulas discussed the French international’s future:

“Ben Arfa, it is a question of passion. He is close to our desire, our enthusiasm, to our fans. I think that he really wants to join Lyon. If he does not come, it will be for reasons that have nothing to do with passion. I believe that it is more Leicester City in terms of the direction he is heading. That is what people have told me who spoke to him on the phone this afternoon.”

A full report on Ben Arfa’s future to follow this evening.

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Researchers have developed eco-friendly cellulose acetate films incorporated with Burdock (Arctium lappa L.) root extract.

In the present work, a new active film based on cellulose acetate (CA) and Burdock (Arctium lappa L.) root extract (BE) was developed and the effect of different BE concentrations (0, 0.3, 0.6 and 0.9 wt%) on the mechanical, physic-chemical, thermal, antimicrobial and optical properties of CA film were investigated. Results indicated that the antimicrobial activity of CA against Aspergillus niger, Candida albicans, Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli improved with increasing BE concentration. Also, there was an increase in free radical scavenger activity, total phenol content, elongation to break, contact angle, colour difference and water vapor transmission rate with BE concentration increasing. While, Young’s modulus, tensile strength, solubility, Water content, and swelling decreased compared to control film (0 % BE).

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The porous and non-uniform surface in the films was observed with increasing BE concentration by a scanning electron microscope. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopic analysis showed that by BE adding to CA film, insignificant changes occurred compared to control film. Differential Scanning Calorimetry results indicated that melting temperature and the glass transition temperature of CA films were decreased with BE increase. CA Film with 0.9 % BE had a 99 % weight loss after 60 days. The current research concludes that CA film containing BE can be used as an active, biodegradable and environmentally friendly edible film for food packaging.

The study has been published in Progress in Organic Coatings, Volume 186, January 2024.

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