Cleaning tasks in todays electronics producing industry are multiple and commonly subject to different requirements. A great variety of products and tools in use, such as solder carriers, PCB's, ESD-boxes, PCB storage racks, machinery parts e. g. flux management units and others will permanently be contaminated in the process with SMD-paste, flux , greases, oil, fat ,dust and other residues. With the use of one single water-based detergent all such contaminations can be removed entirely and residue-free. Permanently rising labour-cost make it more and more necessary to invest into automated cleaning processes. Special solutions for one cleaning requirement only are hard to justify and they are very often economically not viable. kolb PS 41 is a cleaning system that covers a majority of the above mentioned cleaning requirements.

kolb PS41

The advantages of PS41:

• Fully automatic closed-loop 4-stage process; cleaning, MediumWipe, rinsing and drying with high-volume 4-sprayrotor system.
• Simple one-push button operation.
• Tailor-made interchangeable product fixtures in the process chamber.
• Short cycle times (<20 min) depending on detergent and degree of contamination.
• transparent space-saving air-lock door /  illuminated process chamber.
• No explosion protection necessary, operation close to the production line possible.
• Water-free process  possible, the double tank closed-loop system allows the use of a detergent for rinsing instead of tap water.
• Stainless steel,  process sections in electrolysis-resistant PVC.
• Permanent PLC- control of the complete process/ 4 password levels.
• Integrated pump-out unit for the rinse tank.
• 3-stage double fine filtration, 10µ for both cleaning and rinsing.
• 4-stage PowerSpray-unit with magnetic coupled pumping system and filtrated warm air drying (patented technology).