Handbook for Critical Cleaning

Barbara Kanegsberg is president of BFK Solutions LLC, Pacific Palisades, California, an independent consulting company established in 1994. BFK Solutions is the industry leader in critical cleaning. As a recognized consultant in the areas of critical cleaning, contamination control, surface quality, and process validation, she helps companies optimize manufacturing cleaning processes, improve yield, resolve regulatory issues, and maintain trouble-free production. She has participated in projects that include aerospace/military equipment, electronics assembly, medical devices, engineered coatings, metals, pump repair, and optical and nanotechnological devices. She has also participated in a number of product development- and intellectual property-related projects for manufacturers of cleaning chemicals and industrial equipment. Barbara is a recipient of the U.S. EPA Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award for her achievements in implementing effective, environment-friendly manufacturing processes. She has numerous publications to her credit in the areas of surface preparation, contamination control, critical cleaning, method validation, analytical techniques, and regulatory issues.Ed Kanegsberg is the vice president of BFK Solutions, Pacific Palisades, California. He is also a chemical physicist and engineer who troubleshoots and solves manufacturing production problems. Ed is a recognized advisor and consultant in the areas of industrial cleaning process design and process performance. He uses his four decades of practical experience along with his background in physics and engineering to help companies solve production problems and optimize their cleaning and contamination control processes.

… an excellent resource for the manufacturer and for those researchers and consultants like myself who support the manufacturers. … This Handbook's strongest suit is the presentation of the Kanegsbergs’ philosophy of process development and improvement. … they have produced a very useful resource in these two handbooks.—Darren Williams, Controlled Environments Magazine, Mar 1, 2012Mazel tov on your new edition!!! I really didn't know what to expect from a ‘cleaning’ book. So surprised—it is an incredible treasure trove of information!! It is really interesting, beautifully written and honestly I can't stop reading it. Thankfully it is two volumes so Scott and I don't have to fight over it. Really, it is the most fascinating technical book I've ever seen so it should fly off the shelves-or the Internet.—Debra Kimless-Garber MD, Scott Garber MD, DIFLUOREX ... a tour de force, a work written by experts who have worked at the interface between science and industry and who write from that basis, not from an ivory tower. The price of these two formidable volumes is not insignificant. But set against the cost of defective production, just for one hour’s downtime or components having to be re-worked or completely rejected, it is an investment that will pay for itself many times over. On that basis, one is more than happy to strongly recommend it. —Anselm Kuhn, Galvanotechnik, July 2011There are a number of excellent chapters specific to electronics applications; these include materials, equipment, processes and failure modes. Cleaning printed board assemblies for selected applications is on the increase where no clean has quite rightly dominated the market place for many years since the demise of CFC’s. There are many reasons why cleaning is a hot topic again and a great time for the release of an encyclopaedia on cleaning.—Bob Willis, Global SMT & Packaging Magazine, July 2011Any firm serious about managing its cleaning operations should have this book available to their staff responsible for that operation. It’s a strong contribution to the technical literature supporting industrial cleaning because of the diversity of its coverage and strengths of many chapters, …. Every chapter is replete with references—something not provided with a Google (or other search engine) Internet search.—John Durkee, Metal Finishing Magazine, August 2011Industry expert Ed Kanegsberg discusses the necessity for cleaning prior to manufacturing

• Part I: Process Implement and ControlEvaluating, Choosing, and Implementing the Process: How to Get Vendors to Work with You. Cleaning Agent Balancing. Blunders, Disasters, Horror Stories, and Mistakes You Can Avoid. Cleaning Practices and Pollution Prevention. Basis of Design for Life Science Cleanroom Facilities. Validating and Monitoring the Cleanroom. Cleanroom Management, Validation of a Cleanroom Garment System, and Gowning Procedure. Principles of Wiping and Cleaning Validation. Overview to Analytical and Monitoring Techniques. Practical Aspects of Analyzing Surfaces. How Clean Is Clean? Measuring Surface Cleanliness and Defining Acceptable Levels of Cleanliness. Cleaning Validations Using Extraction Techniques. Biomedical Applications: Testing Methods for Verifying Medical Device Cleanliness. Material Compatibility.Part II: ApplicationsClean Critically: An Overview of Cleaning Applications. Cleaning Validation of Reusable Medical Devices: An Overview of Issues in Designing, Testing, and Labeling of Reusable Devices. Critical Cleaning for Pharmaceutical Applications. Cleaning in the Food Processing Industry. Electronic Assembly Cleaning Process Considerations. Precision Cleaning in the Electronics Industry: Surfactant-Free Aqueous Chemistries. Contamination-Induced Failure of Electronic Assemblies. Surface Cleaning: Particle Removal. Cleaning Processes for Semiconductor Wafer Manufacturing (Aluminum Interconnect). Advanced Cleaning Processes for Electronic Device Fabrication (Copper Interconnect and Particle Cleaning). The Cleaning of Paintings. Road Map for Cleaning Product Selection for Pollution Prevention. Wax Removal in the Aerospace Industry. Implementation of Environmentally Preferable Cleaning Processes for Military Applications.Part III: Safety and RegulationsWorker Protection and the Environment: Current Editorial Observations. Health and Safety. Critical Cleaning and Working with Regulators: From a Regulator’s Viewpoint. Momentum from the Phaseout of Ozone-Depleting Solvents Drives Continuous Environmental Improvement. Screening Techniques for Environmental Impact of Cleaning Agents.