From cleanroom consumables such as gloves, hairnets, swabs, and solvents—to micro components like packaging materials, flex circuits, and filter media, ensuring cleanliness at every stage of the hard drive manufacturing cycle is of paramount importance. Ensuring your hard drive products or components are free of microcontaminants is not only critical for product function, but also […]
What Manufacturers Should Do if They Suspect Product Contamination
Every manufacturer knows that the risk of product contamination is present at every stage of the production process. From improper removal of cleaning agents to dirty production lines, product contamination can not only cause costly production delays, but also more serious consequences such as expensive product recalls and bad PR if the contaminant isn’t found […]
For Leading Adhesives Manufacturer, Routine Cleanliness Testing Ensures Quality & Drives Innovation
After nearly 50 years in business, JDC Coatings, Inc. (JDC) in Mount Juliet, TN has become known as an innovative and leading manufacturer of pressure sensitive adhesives (PSA), and industrial coatings and laminates, as well as a pioneer in “ultra clean” adhesives. “JDC started out making decorative plates and identification labels for Murray Bicycles and […]
Why Cleanliness Testing is Essential for Medical Devices
When medical devices are created for implantation into someone’s body, quality is of the utmost importance. While the actual construction and materials used in the medical device are essential to product quality, cleanliness is equally—if not more—important. Cleanliness testing can ensure that your medical devices are free from contaminants that could lead to product failure, […]
Guess the Materials Characterization Technique Part II
When unknown contaminants appear on your products due to failures in manufacturing processes, there are techniques that can help you identify the cause of the issue. Materials analysis laboratories use materials characterization to analyze and reverse engineer unknown materials to discover their composition. In our last post, we brought up four issues and asked you […]
