Ceramic Engineering

QTEC offers a range of Ceramic Engineering Services.  These include:

Porcelain Enamel Formula Developing

A QTEC ceramic engineer can help you develop new enamels to meet your customer’s requirements for bond, thermal shock resistance, heat resistance, and color.  All R&D is performed in your facility, with your equipment, so avoid the problem of “it works great in the lab, but we can’t make it work in production!”

Porcelain Enameling Troubleshooting

Are you having production rejects for appearance or performance? Having a QTEC ceramic engineer review your process and conduct experiments may be your solution.  Often, an experienced outsider with fresh eyes can catch something you are overlooking.

Cast Iron Enameling

Interested in expanding your steel enameling operation into cast iron enameling? Don’t make the jump without being informed.  A QTEC ceramic engineer can introduce you and your staff to the basics with in-plant training, and can assist in locating an iron source and implementing the process.  NOTE: Our founder chaired the writing of the PEI technical manual on enameling cast iron.

Color Matching

Color matching combines ceramic engineering and art. If you do not have an experience color matcher in your facility, and your supplier is not available to help you, call QTEC to have your color matched.

Process Control and Documentation

If you are just beginning to document your process, you need someone who is familiar with ceramic production and laboratory controls and procedures to assist you. Whether you need work instructions with visual aids, corporate procedures, or simple testing steps and records, a QTEC ceramic engineer can create the documents you need to control your process and be ISO 9000 compliant. 

 

Specific Ceramic Engineering Service Examples-

  • Custom Ceramic Coatings, Inc.  - Custom Porcelain Enameling Shop www.CustomCeramic.com

      • Former Owner, Ceramic Engineer. Enameling steel and cast iron products, developing new formulas and batch processes, restoring antique enameled items, developing new colors and formulas, matching antique colors, trouble shooting production processes, training technicians, working with suppliers and customers.

  • Fluid Transfer Industry, Cast Iron Foundry

      • Performed trouble shooting of new enameling line.  Developed new formulations, ran experiments, trained technicians, documented work instructions.  

  • Porcelain Enameling Industry - Metal Fabricating and Job Shop Enameling Plant

      • Former Quality Mgr., Ceramic Engineer Developing new formulas, trouble shooting production, working with enamel suppliers and appliance market (and other) customers, implementing control procedures and documenting per ISO 9000, trouble shooting pickling process, supervising technicians (laboratory, enameling R&D, wet enamel, engineers)  Presenting technical demonstrations and informative reports to suppliers and customers. Presenting technical papers at industry conferences. Writing overviews and presentations for upper management.

  • Porcelain Enameling Industry - Steel Enameling Plant

      • Presenting technical seminar on enameling cast iron, reviewing potential foundries, documenting guidelines and procedures to enameling iron, evaluating potential foundries, reviewing cast iron designs.

Let us contribute to the success of your organization. Please contact us for more information:  KKopplin@QTECconsulting.com (314) 749-5850.