Courtship In China Case

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5/21 Recap
- Last Friday, Mr. Xu installed the rubber tires to help control the gas flow on P2 just like they do in China.
- Steve came in at 0430 to: o Turned on the turn on the P2 o Preheated the machine to 200C for the blank coating o Cleaned and powered on the Ultrasonic cleaning tank
- Mr. Xu arrived at 0600 with the rest of the PVD team o Per the agreement on the conference call with DSS, Mr. Xu was the only one to be operating the machine. o Mr. Xu was having issues with the machine in the morning and could not get the appropriate vacuum pressure o Ran a blank coating at 0650 o Attempted 1st cycle immediately after, but material came out blue and pink. He said there was still an issue with the pressure and he had to trouble shoot each arc to find the problem.
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 Arc #2 had been burnt out and shorted from the 1st cycle. It needed to be rewired and then put back in the chamber. o Mr. Xu seemed frustrated throughout the morning, but once he went to lunch and came back, it was a much smoother day. He was much more willing to explain to us the changes he was making and it was beneficial for us.
- Mr. Xu began his dialing in of Gun Metal with the process/methods they use in China. o He was able to run 4 cycles throughout the day and he did achieve a darker color than we did the past week. Although he did not feel the end result was dark enough to match the gun metal we were trying to achieve. o We tested substrates both on the planetary and stationary gears, but the ones located on the planetary gears resulted in the darkest color. o He changed a few parameters and they did seem to work, such as:
 Gas flow process with the rubber