Abrasion coatings are an essential step in the process of
manufacturing many components. Surface abrasion coatings provide
window and high-gloss applications to increase scratch
resistance, as well as cleanability and chemical resistance to
surfaces. In addition, abrasion coatings provide lubricious wear
surfaces between parts. A wide variety of abrasion-coating
processes are available. Spray coating, for example, is ideal
for single-sided abrasion-coating applications on flat parts.
The process requires time-consuming steps of mask tooling,
creation, application, and removal to apply to selective areas
of components. Another abrasion-coating process, known as spin
coating, is ideal for applying non-selective abrasion coating on
single-sided parts. A third common abrasion-coating process, dip
coating, is ideal for all-sided, complete abrasion-coating
coverage. In response to customer engineering requirements,
Phillips developed an alternative to these abrasion-coating
processes, known as Vuecoat. The process