PRE-TREATMENT , SURFACE PREPARATION , DEGREASING & CLEANING
Ecoclean : Efficient , Reliable and Sustainable Cleaning With the Optimum Solution
The right cleaning process ensures product quality and cost effectiveness
Today , parts cleaning has become a quality critical manufacturing step in all industry sectors . Often it takes great effort to reproducibly meet particulate and film-type cleanliness specifications . At the same time cleaning is to be done at the lowest possible cost and highly sustainable . These contradictory requirements imperatively call for processes and machines tailored to specific needs .
Meeting defined particulate and film-type cleanliness specifications that can be reproduced and at the lowest possible cost - these requirements can only be implemented with cleaning solutions that are optimally adapted to the task .
From machine and plant engineering , electrical and power engineering to connecting elements , the so-called general industry contains a multitude of sectors . In these industry sectors , components of the most diverse materials like metals , plastics , ceramic and composite materials are manufactured and processed using very different manufacturing technologies . Products include , for example , cast and machined parts , stamped , bent , pressed and deep-drawn parts , hydraulic parts and , more and more , additively manufactured components . Although the parts are manifold , they have one thing in common : to ensure the quality of downstream processes such as machining , heat treatment , coating , bonding and assembly and to guarantee lasting functionality , they necessitate cleanliness levels in line with requirements . In many areas , ever higher requirements concerning particulate and film-type cleanliness must be met . And there there are often added challenges such as high throughput rates and weights , a strongly varying range of parts to be cleaned , short delivery times and also small margins in some cases .
Adapting cleaning processes to tasks on hand
This means there are different requirements for part cleaning . As supplier of complete future-oriented , flexible and energy-efficient solutions for industrial parts cleaning , Ecoclean covers the complete range of wet-chemical procedures . Cleaning processes and systems for batch or single-part cleaning can be optimally adapted to the respective specifications . To do so the following factors have to be taken into consideration : Material , size , geometry and weight of the part , type and quantity of contaminants , downstream process and the resulting cleanliness specifications and throughput requirements . On this basis it can be determined whether the contaminants can be removed most effectively with a water-based
Solvent-based systems for wash load sizes up to 1,250 x 840 x 970 mm and weight of one ton for high throughput requirements are available .
Besides the right cleaning fluid , the process technology - ultrasonics in this case - plays a vital role to reliably and quickly reach cleanliness specifications .
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