Automotive OEM surface coating
Process consulting for automotive OEM surface coating. We engineer the finish, the line, and the numbers behind both.
Built to the standards your audit checks against.
s4p was founded in 2009 after more than 50 years of combined, hands-on experience in car-body and plastic-part surface coating across the automotive industry. We are a small team of well-chosen experts, drawn from across the globe and proven on the line, not just on paper.
Experts on the line in
From booth layout to robot path and dosing, tuned for a clean finish and lower material use.
Deep plating expertise, including trivalent-chromium processes, from defect to stable line.
Bringing new plastic parts to launch and keeping the tools that make them healthy.
Project and process discipline that holds up to OEM audits and milestones.
Painting
We tune booth layout, robot path, and dosing until the surface reads mirror-perfect and the overspray vanishes, paying the line back inside a year.
Three things every engagement has to move: the return, the process, and the program.
Return
≤ 1 yr
Payback
Return on invest with payback times of a year or less.
Cost
Guaranteed savings
Overall guaranteed cost reductions across the line.
Balance
Best balanced engineering
Engineering tuned for cost against function.
Process
Stable
Process stabilization
Downtime reduction and material approvals.
Serial
Serial development
Serial and process development with on-time releases.
Output
Production performance
Increase production performance across the line.
Program
Global
Holistic market know-how
Global know-how and interface creation between sites.
SOP
OEM milestones
Ensuring OEM milestones and start-of-production dates.
Green
Environmentally friendly
Green-economy practices and customer satisfaction.
Assess the line, the tooling, and the data. Find the real weakness, not the symptom.
Prepare a concrete action plan with the cost, the function, and the timeline made explicit.
Program, dose, plate, and stabilize on the floor, alongside your team.
Validate against OEM milestones and hand over a process that holds.
We transfer the method, not just the result. s4p Academy builds your team's capability in coating processes, robot programming, and quality method, so the line keeps improving once we are gone.
Atomization, film build, and booth climate, tuned to a repeatable window.
Path, dosing, and shaping air your own team can adjust without us.
APQP, VDA 6.3, and the audit discipline behind them.
Tell us about the part, the booth, or the defect. We respond with a concrete read on where the time and the material are going.
