Dow Corning offers seminar at IFAI Expo 2005
Dow Corning Corporation, a leading supplier of silicone products for the textile industry, will present a session entitled DFSS Methodology: Characterising Thermal Resistivity and Flame Retardant Performance for Silicone-Coated Fabrics at the Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI) Expo to be held this October in Presenting will be William R. Blackwood, senior application engineer for Dow Corning Industrial Textiles and Airbag Coatings of North America. He will give a general overview of the Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) process and compare it with the traditional iterative method of product development. He will also explore in detail the application of DFSS methodology for the development of flame-retardant, thermally resistant silicone-coated fabrics, and will review the properties of silicone elastomers, filler materials, silicone rheology, testing methods, measurement criteria and the impact of coat weight on performance.
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