ReliaCoat Technologies LLC (RCT), a spin-off from the Stony Brook University Center for Thermal Spray Research (CTSR), was founded with an express intent to bring advances in thermal spray science, creating advanced processes, coating property sensors, software tools and technology services for the thermal spray coating industry. The goal of the company is to take advanced scientific information developed by academia and build operator/user friendly instrumentation, analytical, and software tools to enhance thermal spray industries products, processes and applications. Concurrently, ReliaCoat Technologies is also engaged in technology services and consulting to promote thermal spray process and coating monitoring for small and medium spray shops as well as to develop new applications for thermal spray coating using advanced tools and know-how.