Featured Articles
You’re worried - maybe about your process yield, profitability, competitive stance, new cleaning process design, contamination control, world peace. While we don’t yet know how to achieve world peace, manufacturers tell us that our articles give them ideas they can use right away to improve their critical cleaning processes and productivity. As food for thought, here are a few featured articles; we’ll provide different ones on a regular basis. Need additional ideas for more productive product manufacturing? Check our publications and presentations list. Still worried? Contact us; we’ll help.
Medical Devices and Critical Cleaning: What You Need to Know
Barbara Kanegsberg
Metal Finishing Magazine, October, 2011.
Are you involved in medical device manufacturing? Would you like to expand your business in supplying components? Understand the goals and requirements of medical device manufacturing and using well-defined, effective cleaning processes, and you increase the value of your product to current and potential customers. This article provides practical perspective and insight wherever you are in the supply chain.
Defluxing for New Assembly Requirements
Barbara Kanegsberg and Ed Kanegsberg
OnBoard Technology Magazine, November, 2011
Consider defluxing at the design stage. Product design impacts the assembly process, including defluxing. Densely-populated boards are particularly difficult to deflux; and defluxing is cleaning. Inadequate flux removal lowers yield, decreases reliability, and ultimately impacts the bottom line. The article shows steps to finding the most effective, rugged defluxing option relative to the assembly design. The reward is reliable, competitive, and profitable electronics assembly.
The article is based on a paper originally presented at IPC APEX Expo 2011.
Cleanrooms and Energy
Barbara Kanegsberg and Ed Kanegsberg
Controlled Environments Magazine
May, 2010
Energy consumption is a major cost item in operating a cleanroom. This article will give you ways to cut energy costs, improve critical cleaning operations, achieve better contamination control, and have more productive processes.
Clean Can be Lean, Part 1
Ed Kanegsberg
Clean Source Newsletter, Volume 2 Issue 1, 2005
Do the math! Don’t fight your local bean counter; think like one. Driving down the failure-rate with value-added, critical cleaning processes makes cleaning essential for lean manufacturing.
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