Glossary
Adhesive Machine Operator Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential adhesive machine operator terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key adhesive machine operator vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in adhesive machine operator training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Cure time
- Time to full strength.
- Delamination
- Layers separating.
- First article
- First part checked before a run.
- Glue spread
- Amount of glue.
- Hot melt
- Adhesive applied hot.
- Lockout/tagout
- Energy isolation before servicing.
- Nip roll
- Presses layers.
- Open time
- Time before glue sets.
- Peel test
- Bond strength test.
- PPE
- Personal protective equipment.
- Primer
- Improves bonding.
- PUR
- Polyurethane reactive adhesive.
- Scrap
- Parts that fail inspection.
- SOP
- Standard operating procedure.
- Substrate
- Material bonded.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Adhesive Machine Operator practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Adhesive Machine Operator training.
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