Volume XX, Issue 9 - October 2023
BREAKING NEWS!
EPA proposes total ban on Trichloroethylene.
See more in the KNOWLEDGE IS POWER section.

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Feature Article
Part 2: Real Costs of Changing the Cleaning Process - Shortcuts and Consequences
Barbara Kanegsberg and Ed Kanegsberg, BFK Solutions LLC
Product manufacturers are likely to change the product cleaning process in the next two to five years. Regulatory happenings, notably from the U.S. EPA Amended TSCA and PFAS concerns may mean that well-established cleaning agents are not available. As a result, manufacturers may be drawn into a frenzied effort to push through process change - fast. Technical and economic reasons for improving the cleaning process include exacting customer requirements, the need for higher throughput, and new product lines. Moving to a new process cleaning process is expensive. In Part 1, we introduced the real, non-capital costs of changing a cleaning process, emphasizing the high costs of researching and developing the new process. Our analysis was exceedingly optimistic and are predicated on the presumption that the process of process change goes smoothly and without mistakes. Assume that your actual costs will be higher. Savvy manufacturers consider the impact of capital and non-capital costs. Read on for instructive examples of how the effort to change the cleaning process goes off the rails.