2017 Overview of Vitro Certified™ Network Training Series
Available exclusively to members of the Vitro Certified Network™—online 24/7 through the Vitro Certified Network™ Member website—the Certified Network Seminar series offers opportunities to become familiar with best practices in commercial glass fabrication. We can even arrange to deliver the seminar live at your annual audit.
Access PDF versions of all Seminars in the “Certified Network Seminar” section of the Vitro Certified Network™ Member website. To obtain a login or recover your password, please contact Kathy Comer.
Interested in arranging a seminar presented by Technical Services during your routine annual audit? Fill out the form below.
Achieving Washed Glass Quality
This seminar focuses on five key areas:
- The importance of water quality
- The key role washer setup plays in the cleanliness of the glass
- The importance of the different components within the washer
- Ways of verifying and monitoring the washer process
- Best practices for achieving washed glass quality
Building Quality Into your IG Process
This seminar focuses on five key areas:
- The IG unit specification
- Sealant application and quality
- Common IG assembly issues affecting durability
- Quality control and testing
- Finished IG inspection checklist
Value of Inspection and Visual Aides
This seminar will focus on these key areas:
- Are you missing inspection opportunities?
- Inspection should include on-line as well as off-line review of product
- Viewing conditions for proper inspection
- Critical inspection lighting used for process improvements
- Valuable visual aids: types and examples
Value of Preventive and Predictive Maintenance
This seminar will focus on these key areas:
- Maintenance strategies
- Components of preventive and predictive maintenance
- Visual preventive maintenance
- Predictive maintenance based on sensory observation.
Low-E Glazing Color Uniformity
This seminar will focus on these key areas:
- Definition of what color is and how color is perceived
- The industry standard that defines color uniformity for low-e glass
- Fabrication process effects on the color of low-e glass
- Different types of glazing construction’s effect on color
- Color monitoring and what it entails
Glass Scoring & Breakout Basics
This seminar will focus on these key areas:
- Glass scoring & breakout principles
- How to recognize good edge quality
- The meaning of fissure depth and how it affects breakout and the glass edge quality
- The relationship of wheel angle, wheel diameter, and pressure and how they affect the quality of the glass edge
Arrange a Seminar
Please provide us with some basic information and a Vitro Architectural Glass representative will be in touch with any additional questions.
