Summary
For manufacturers concerned with high quality and profitability, achieving optimal critical cleaning and surface quality during fabrication is an essential goal. Too often, this goal is thwarted by increasingly restrictive environmental regulations that severely limit choices in process chemicals. We show you pro-active approaches to well-controlled, lean critical cleaning and fabrication. These approaches enhance performance, maximize worker safety, and head-off environmental regulatory nightmares.

Topics include:
• Why clean?
• Environmental hassles
• Productive communication with environmental regulators
• Your best options
• Educated workers; fewer hassles
• Lean cleaning and your supply chain
• Standards, controls, and environmental regulations – coordinate them to your advantage

Who Should Attend
The program provides practical guidance to people in management, production, and product design. If you want to actually manufacture a prototype or improve yields or if you are actively locking horns with environmental regulators, this course is a wise investment.

About the instructors

 Barbara Kanegsberg (“the cleaning lady”) and Ed Kanegsberg (“the rocket scientist”), BFK Solutions, LLC, are recognized independent consultants in critical and precision cleaning, contamination control, and surface quality. They help industry achieve profitable, competitive quality processes in challenging regulatory environments in applications ranging from biomedical devices and miniature components to high-volume fabrication. Barbara’s background includes biochemistry, clinical chemistry, and manufacturing process development. Ed’s background includes physics, engineering, and development of navigation systems. They are editors of The Handbook For Critical Cleaning, CRC Press, and co-author a column in surface characterization and contamination control that appears regularly in Controlled Environments Magazine. Barbara received the 1996 U.S. EPA Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award and has been nominated for the 2007 EPA “Best-of-the-Best” award.

 James Unmack, President of Unmack Corporation, is a Certified Industrial Hygienist in private practice. Jim provides direction, guidance, and instruction to other professionals and clients in occupational and environmental safety and health. His experience includes the Air Force, Cal/OSHA consulting, and aerospace. Jim is a Diplomate in Industrial Hygiene, American Academy of Environmental Engineers, and is President of the Orange County California Chapter of the American Industrial Hygiene Association.