Sanitary component, namely jet regulator or jet former for flowing, fluid media, method of producing such a sanitary component and use of a sanitary component

A method for manufacturing a sanitary component for flowing fluid media, the fluid media having a direction of flow, the sanitary component having property-defining components, the property-defining components being situated in a sandwich arrangement, the property-defining components including at least a screen attachment, a diffuser plate assembly and a shell body, the shell body having a cross-sectional surface and segments of stream-forming openings extending across the cross-sectional surface, the sanitary component comprising:

• cooperating first and second fixing means for at least one of exchanging and combining said property-defining components, the first fixing means being at least one of integrally formed on the shell body and molded in the shell body, and the second fixing means being at least one of integrally formed on the diffuser plate assembly and molded in the diffuser plate assembly;
• wherein the diffuser plate assembly has an exterior surface and includes at least on the exterior surface thereof a first optical code, the first optical code being a flow rate class-specifying optical code;
• wherein the flow rate class-specifying first optical code of the diffuser plate assembly includes a color;
• wherein the screen attachment is connected to the diffuser plate assembly;
• wherein the property-defining components further include a flow regulator, the flow regulator being disposed between the screen attachment and the diffuser plate assembly, the flow regulator defining a control gap;
• wherein the sanitary component further comprises an elastically deformable ring, the elastically deformable ring being disposed within the control gap, the flow of fluid media through the sanitary component being altered by the elastically deformable ring under the pressure of the flowing fluid media;
• and wherein the screen attachment includes a screen portion that is formed of a material that is one of transparent and translucent such that at least one of the flow regulator and the position of the deformable ring is identifiable,
• which comprises the steps of:
• obtaining customer-specific requirements of the sanitary component from a customer, the customer-specific requirements including at least one of a desired flow rate class, a stream pattern and a flow rate, the screen attachment, the shell body and the flow regulator of the property-defining components of the sanitary component respectively having associated therewith a second optical code, a third optical code and a fourth optical code;
• comparing the customer-specific requirements to a code table having a list of the first through fourth optical codes of the property-defining components of the sanitary component to identify the property-defining components to assemble to manufacture the sanitary component, thereby obtaining identified property-defining components;
• retrieving the identified property-defining components from an inventory;
• and
• assembling the identified property-defining components to form the sanitary component.