Topics surface technology

In the drying building block, there is a lot of potential to save valuable resources - in the form of electricity or gas, of time and cycle, of scrap and rework, of heat and exhaust air. The list goes on. A look at an alternative drying process that has been deemed an eligible technology by the government.

Increasing product quality and cost efficiency is in the focus of many companies. The range of solutions, trends and knowledge that will be presented to the trade by over 150 exhibitors at parts2clean from September 26 to 28 provides an excellent opportunity to find new approaches.

From pressure-swing cleaning processes to practical applications and cleanliness testing with UV light, FiT's Industrial Component Cleaning Conference provided a broad cross-section of current industrial cleanliness requirements.

High-purity cleaning applications are now the order of the day for high-end components due to the sometimes extremely high requirements - up to now mainly wet-chemical cleaning. For some components, however, these have their limits, for example due to dimensions, pre-assembly or because only partial cleaning is required.

A developer, manufacturer and supplier of high-end vacuum valves placed the follow-up order for further expansion in Asia just one year after installing a XXXL High Purity Grade 1 system for high-vacuum components in the semiconductor environment - and promptly raised the bar in terms of minimum requirements.

As part of a major order from a ship engine manufacturer, a specialist in the development and manufacture of high-end cleaning systems was given the task of automating up to nine manual deburring stations in the future in order to minimize throughput times and space requirements in the hall.

A new generation of automatic powder guns for coating systems as well as robot-based manufacturing environments, which has already won the Red Dot Award, offers several advantages over its predecessor.

To mark the anniversary, Managing Director Dr Jens Heymans briefly reviews the history of the company and provides an insight into the topics and technologies that OptiSense and its customers are currently working on.

Improve quality, reduce time: In Balgach, a new closed-loop control and the capabilities of current AI tools for parameter optimisation were demonstrated in practice.

The use of nitrogen as an atomising gas in wet painting ensures particularly fine and efficient atomisation of the material, as is required in automotive painting, for example.