There are many stages in manufacturing seatbelt
webbing and automotive interior fabrics. Multiple production steps are always
met with challenges in ensuring that the finished products produced are with
the same color standard in every single time. Color and appearance in
automotive interior starting from plastics panels to the fabric used in seats
and even in seatbelt webbing is important to control and manage.
Take for example this Multi-National Japanese seatbelt maker, They are using
Konica Minolta CM-2600d to ensure consistent color reproduction of their
manufactured seatbelt webbing product for their major automotive brand client.
They use this device to evaluate the color of the dyed seatbelt webbing, as
well as the effect of various finishes, like yellowing, reding, darkening etc.
And since they also have other factories across the globe, CM-2600d became a
standard of choice for color measurement tool due to its high inter-instrument
agreement (IIA). It allows consistent and streamlined data collection and sharing
within a factory as well as in their factories abroad, supply chain or multiple
customers.
Note: There is an upgraded version of this spectrophotometer – the
CM-26dG which now comes with an ISO compliant 60-degree gloss measurement
function, large color display which shows measurement data either numerically
or graphically.