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Product Performance

In a similar way to its impact on Quality Assurance, the Aria technology is ideally suited to evaluating Product Performance at or near the point of sale. The technology can easily measure:

· Shelf Life

· Dry Time

· Cure Time

· Accurate Mixing

Below are several examples of this type of application:

Polymer Solutions

A major ingredient in many products starts as a solution of various polymers. Polymer solutions are also common additives for non-polymer products. These constituents are used in everything from paints, coatings, printing, and packaging products to automotive, electronics, medical, and pharmaceutical applications. Screening of incoming raw materials can catch problems with feedstock, but the testing usually requires a combination of measurements from slow, expensive instruments.

Aria Technology can easily evaluate samples of different paint batches for variance from standard, both at the factory and at thepoint of sale.

The image at the right shows the results of comparing two different paints against each other. The curves for Paint 151 (in white) show a very stable composition, while the curves for Paint 030 (in black) show changes in the formulation as a function of shelf life.hese results are further emphasized in the lower plot, which clearly shows the tight distribution of Paint 151 compared with the much wider distrbution in data for Paint 030 as a result of aging.

Paints & Coatings

Aria Technology can detect variance from standard in drinking water, both “from the tap, and bottled waters. The images at the right show dramatic differences in results from testing samples of mineral water.

Different levels of mineralization, for example, lead to noticeably different curve shapes for the various samles, allowing for easy differentiation.

Aria provides a way to detect deviations from standard additives (or final products) in a single measurement. The figure to the right show an example of various dilution levels for an aqueous solution of a proprietary polymer. The red and green clusters represent two dilutions of the same polymer (“A”). The blue cluster represents a solution of a second polymer (“B”) at the same 1:2 dilution as polymer “A” in green. The clusters are clearly distinguishable from each other.

Drinking Water

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