Mazda has chosen Swedish-Swiss industrial automation company ABB to help it further its paint technology. The Japanese carmaker has fitted ABB’s latest paint atomizer—the RB1000i-S—to its Ujina Plant No. 1 in Hiroshima.
The plant—where the CX-3, CX-5, CX-30, and MX-5— stand to benefit from these digitally-enabled paint atomizers. They not only significantly reduce paint usage and wastage by increasing the paint transfer to the vehicle body, but prevents less overspray too. This will enable Mazda to perfectly replicate eye-catching colors such as Melting Copper (top photo).
Moreover, the paint atomizers can be fitted on existing robots, whether ABB or not, meaning almost no downtime.
So far, Mazda has reported a 17 percent reduction in paint usage due to the improved transfer efficiency as well as a marked decrease in overspray affecting the equipment.
Mazda considers color as an integral part of its design so much so that they’ve adopted the word, “Takuminuri” or “Artisan coloring” to denote their precise, high-quality paint finish. So far, they’ve created several Takuminuri colors such as Soul Red Crystal, Machine Gray, Rhodium White, and Artisan Red. It’s rumored that they’re coming up with a new blue color inspired by Awa-ai or Japanese traditional indigo dyeing.
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