Colour and Surface Measurement for Automotive Interiors

Automotive interiors include a variety of materials utilised in creating the cabin of modern automobiles. This includes plastics, textiles, metal, leather, and more. Automotive interiors play a huge role in customer experience, branding, and positioning with these materials in direct contact with the customer and responsible for the perception of quality. The development and specification of these materials must be undertaken in parallel with the interior lighting in order to deliver an environment that is functional, projects quality, and avoids any undesired interactions between materials and light sources. The ability to work collaboratively with supply chain partners using traceable colour data has the potential to save significant cost, waste, and time.
 
Konica Minolta and partner Rhopoint Instruments offer a compressive range of solutions to the automotive industry, aimed at producing consistent and quality components for the cabin. This helps automotive marques to improve the perceived quality of their products, ensuring a visually appealing interior environment by controlling the appearance of interior materials.

Whether for development, process, or quality control for internal controls, colour specification, and communication with the supply chain, our expert team can help the automotive industry to accurately specify, produce, and communicate colour. Utilising Konica Minolta’s  innovative and accurate measurement instruments with cutting edge software, producers can greatly improve the process, speed and outcomes of their colour workflow.
  

Digital colour and appearance data can be used to expedite the supply process, greatly improving an OEM’s ability to react to the market by reducing the costs and risks associated with producing, distributing, and maintaining physical standards.

  
Colour Measurement applied when visiting with supply partners, agreeing specifications, in development laboratories, in benchmarking against competitors or reporting for internal quality control programs can build supply relationships based on quality and consistency, reducing subjectivity in the colour production process.
 
Konica Minolta has a dedicated team, experienced in delivering digital colour data systems to global supply chains, allowing organisations to specify and share colour standards with supply partners to centralise the colour matching, quality control, and approval of colours within their libraries. Our systems are supported by a global network of sales and expertise, and authorised service facilities that ensure your systems can be maintained with minimal downtime.