After tooling fixtures are fabricated they are released to production.
Operators wear gloves while loading the parts and adhere to strict to quality standards to ensure no contaminants are picked up in this process.
The parts are individually inspected for obvious defects, and then loaded on to the tooling fixtures.
The majority of masking is integrated into the tooling fixtures for automatic masking. Any masking that cannot be achieved with tooling is completed before processing.