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March 2024

Published by Barbara and Edward Kanegsberg at March 2024

Finding Cleaning Processes that Hide in Plain Sight: Ask “Why?” Ask “What’s That?”

To solve critical cleaning problems, be a preschooler. Ask: Why? Ask: What’s that? The source of the critical cleaning problems may be hiding in plain sight. A process might not be identified as cleaning; no one may think about it as cleaning. We were asked to improve a final aqueous […]

January 2020

Published by Barbara Kanegsberg at January 2020

Two Terrifying Cleaning Questions

(This article originally appeared in the January 2020 issue of Clean Source Newsletter) We were helping a client set up cleaning evaluations at a provider of cleaning equipment; and the client received a questionnaire asking for details. The first question: what manufacturing steps occur before the cleaning process to be […]

September 2019

Published by Ed Kanegsberg at September 2019

Soprano or Bass—What Ultrasonic Frequency to Use? Part 2: Being TACTful

As a professional in product cleaning, you probably have encountered the acronym TACT. The letters represent four key facets for effective cleaning, Temperature, Action, Chemistry, and Time. Action is the facet usually associated with ultrasonics. In Part 1, we focused on cleaning action and the relationship to frequency. However, ultrasonic […]