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Adhesive Bonding: The Technology of the 21st Century
In modern industrial production, adhesive bonding plays an increasingly important role, and its range of applications continues to expand rapidly. Due to its innovativeness, it is often said that "adhesive bonding is the joining technology of the 21st century."
The reason adhesive bonding has evolved so significantly and is expected to continue developing is that it possesses numerous excellent characteristics not found in other joining technologies.
Let’s take a look at these outstanding features along with their applications.
Aircraft
Railways
Adhesive bonding joins glass windows and metal car bodies, compensating for differences in thermal expansion due to temperature changes. Unlike welding or brazing, adhesive bonding enables the joining of different materials.
Automobiles
By combining adhesive bonding with car body joining, body rigidity is improved, enhancing crash safety as well. Adhesive bonding allows for planar force transmission and uniform stress distribution, enabling the mechanical properties of materials to be maximized.
Optoelectronics
Adhesive bonding can be applied not only to large structures but also to small components as tiny as 2 mm in diameter, such as endoscopes.
Additionally, the low heat input and minimal distortion of the components enable assemblies without compromising optical performance.
Electronic Devices
Adhesive bonding is used in a wide range of units, from laminated films for displays to micro camera lens units, enabling the miniaturization and weight reduction of electronic devices, exemplified by smartphones. Its role goes beyond assembly, providing diverse functions such as vibration damping, sealing, and corrosion protection.
Adhesive Bonding Requires Special Process Management
The greatest challenge in adhesive bonding is that it is a Special Process.
Special Process refers to a manufacturing process in which product quality cannot be fully verified through non-destructive testing. As a result, defects may only be discovered during product use (i.e., at the customer phase).
Therefore, to prevent defects and consistently deliver stable quality to customers, it is essential to implement systems that avoid all possible errors throughout the entire manufacturing process.
This error-prevention system is a quality management system specifically designed for adhesive bonding. The core idea of this system is that the quality of adhesive bonding is not guaranteed by inspection, but built into the process.
Providing Correct Knowledge and Reliable Qualifications to Everyone Involved in Adhesive BondingOne of the most important aspects of adhesive bonding quality management is creating an organization where everyone involved has sufficient competence.
By ensuring that all personnel engaged in adhesive bonding processes receive training based on global standards, share correct knowledge, and hold appropriate qualifications, stable, high-quality products can be continuously produced.
AESB provides maximum support to ensure that participants reliably obtain the necessary certifications.
By equipping personnel with the required skills in adhesive bonding, we fully support your company in maintaining consistently high-quality, trusted, and unique products.
