A component can look clean when it leaves the wash tank and still fail after drying. A faint film appears under angled light. White marks form around a drain edge. A blind hole releases liquid during assembly. ...
A multi-stage cleaning line can include washing, ultrasonic treatment, rinsing, blow-off, drying, inspection, and unload. Adding an Air Knife does not automatically make it faster. Throughput improves only when...
Air knife placement after an ultrasonic cleaning tank is not a single distance or angle. The correct position depends on what happens next. A knife between the wash tank and the rinse tank should push cleaning ...
Every part leaving a cleaning tank takes some liquid with it. A thin film coats the surface. Drops sit on horizontal ledges. Bores, seams, baskets, and rack contacts hold more. When that liquid enters the next ...
Drying often becomes the slowest stage in an automated parts washer. Wash and rinse may finish on time, yet water remains on ledges, inside pockets, or between parts in a basket. Raising dryer temperature adds ...
A camera does not decide whether a surface looks clean to a person. It decides whether the pixels match a trained or programmed rule. A faint particle may create a sharp spot under directional light. A thin wat...
Product movement under an Air Knife is easy to misread. Operators may say the air knife is too strong. Sometimes that is true. More often, the problem is a mix of air force, direction, distance, product shape, ...
Flat surfaces are the easy case for Air Knife drying. The air curtain hits the surface, breaks the water film, and pushes liquid toward an edge or drain. Uneven, ribbed, or recessed products behave differently....
