A Process Is Validated

Author:  Jack Champaigne, Electronics Inc.
Source:  The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 29, Issue 2, Spring 2015
Doc ID:  2015012
Year of Publication:  2015
Abstract:  
In the summer of 2001, I wrote an article for the Electronics Inc. Abrasive Blast Cleaning News magazine titled “Blast Cleaning Process Control Using Almen Products.” I had the crazy idea that Almen strips,used in the same way they’re used in shot peening,could monitor a blast cleaning operation—without the plotting of a saturation curve, of course. So it was with great satisfaction when I read Kumar Balan’s review of the top five things his customers were doing right and the use of Almen strips in blast cleaning was on his list.