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Medical device cleaning products help ensure your processes meet clean room validation requirements.Process validation is important in the introduction and manufacture of new medical devices and PCBs (printed circuit boards). Critical activities, such as parts cleaning with clean room compatibility, must be performed under controlled conditions that are tested and validated. Validation helps ensure that…
This guide provides advice on which Sticklers™ fiber optic tools works best for your particular application. Match the tool to a particular end-face configuration, required cleaning method or connector location.
The world’s need for greater connectivity continues to grow. The demand is voracious and limitless. Broadband connectivity has become a crucial link in nearly every aspect of people’s lives including their jobs, medical care, entertainment and security.This increased need for fast, unlimited service is driving many network designers to rely even more on sophisticated fiber…
IPA was never the recommended cleaning agent for fiber end faces anyway. Now that there’s an IPA shortage, can technicians turn this dilemma into an opportunity?Cabling Installation and Maintenance Magazine caught up with Rick Hoffman, Sticklers™ National Accounts Manager, to ask about the IPA (Isopropyl Alcohol) shortages due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Hoffman does not recommend using IPA…
The ChallengeBenchtop cleaning of PCBs is a tough challenge for process engineers. Dip-and-brush cleaning is an inexpensive but slow method that often leaves residues to migrate across circuits.Traditional high-pressure aerosols are convenient but can be expensive, environmentally wasteful and people don’t like breathing all those fumes. MicroCare offers a better way to clean circuit boards. There…
Aqueous cleaning is a common and reliable cleaning choice for many companies. But one of the big disadvantages of water cleaning is the cost of electricity. A general rule-of-thumb is that any aqueous cleaning system will use ten times the energy of a vapor degreaser of comparable capacity. Water cleaning systems use far more electricity…