Surface Technology-Cleaning: Successful Implementation of an Aqueous Industrial Parts Cleaning System within a Manufacturing Facility

Chicago, Illinois - For an industrial parts cleaning system to be successful, good interaction must take place between the end user and the equipment supplier. The end user must be prepared to identify the specific cleaning requirements to include soils to be removed, level of cleanliness to be achieved, geometry of parts, part material, productivity in respect to volume of parts per a defined time requirement, level of automation desired, how parts are to be presented and whether these requirements are to be achieved by a cellular and/or centralized cleaning system. The supplier is therefore tasked with understanding the requirements or challenging the end user to better define the requirements to be achieved. With the definition of the requirements understood by end user and supplier, the supplier is then tasked with determining the equipment type or system configuration, and demonstrating the capability of the Aqueous System to consistently achieve the cleaning requirements. Aqueous cleaning requires some form of mechanical interaction between the parts to be cleaned and aqueous chemistry. In this presentation, in addition to identifying and explaining defined requirements, the various types of mechanical interaction will be identified, their specific strengths and weaknesses defined in regard to each form of mechanical interaction (example: Soak, Spray, Agitation, Ultrasonics, etc.). This paper will give the attendees a better understanding of the capabilities of Aqueous Cleaning Systems to achieve stringent cleaning requirements based on the various forms of mechanical interaction.

About the speaker
Ed Tulinski has been involved in Surface Technology for over 30 years. I am a Certified Manufacturing Engineer, specializing in General Finishing Processes He has a degree from Boston College.
He has been employed by Jenfab since 1992. In addition to being Vice President and General Manager of the Jenfab facility in Berlin, CT, I have the additional responsibility of R & D, Application Development, System Development, as well as Quality Control.
Prior to Jenfab, he was employed as Vice President by Harper Surface Finishing Systems.
Jenfab, along with our sister company, JRI Industries, are major suppliers of Aqueous Cleaning Systems for Automotive, Medical, Aerospace, and other Industrial Manufacturers both in North America and Internationally. 
Previously I was a certified speaker and instructor for the SME regarding General Finishing Processes, having chaired more than 50 workshops and 20 conferences.