Cleaning in industry

For industrial companies across all sectors, the focus is on streamlining processes, maximising yield and minimising downtime. Cleaning plays a major role in this, especially in production and production-related areas such as logistics. At the same time, it is important for company image and for the satisfaction of the workforce that the reception, office buildings and social areas are also clean and inviting. To reach this goal efficiently, businesses need to have the right methods and the right equipment for all cleaning measures.

Industrial Cleaning: Ensuring Cleanliness on Both Sides of the Yellow Line

Production-related areas: from pallet cleaning to dry-ice blasting

In production and production-related areas, there are many standard tasks that are always on the agenda. These include cleaning floors with sweepers and scrubber dryers to ensure that floor surfaces maintain the required texture to allow autonomous forklift trucks to navigate reliably. Cleaning surfaces using preconditioning or spraying methods is also becoming increasingly important for ensuring the full functionality of optical sensors.

If required, special tasks such as automatic extraction can be added, which clean wood chips and loose dirt from incoming pallets to prevent malfunctions at light barriers in automated warehousing systems. Mobile dry ice blasters are a gentle yet effective solution for removing ingrained dirt from conveyor belts without first having to disassemble parts.

From the canteen to the office: cleaning concept always in focus

Canteens, sanitary facilities, offices, reception areas – alongside cleaning tasks that are tailored to the specific production processes, there are those areas in industrial companies that place more conventional demands on cleaning. Having a system that displays cleaning tasks, machinery, manual equipment, detergents and methods for each room category allows users to develop a needs-based cleaning concept that ensures work is efficient. The kitchens in canteens must be cleaned in accordance with applicable hygiene guidelines such as HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point).

No 'one-size-fits-all' in industry: sector-specific challenges

Though every sector is facing comparable challenges in the form of cost pressures and increasing competition, their requirements of cleaning technology vary greatly. Within the chemical industry, for example, any equipment used must be suitable for ATEX zones, i.e. potentially explosive hazard zones as defined in the European ATEX Directive 2014/34/EU (Atmosphères Explosibles). Such equipment includes ATEX vacuum cleaners or ATEX scrubber dryers, which can be modified as necessary. For the metal processing industry, however, the focus is on value preservation and smooth operation of large machining centres, for example. These can be given a thorough clean as part of maintenance using high-pressure cleaners and compatible detergents. Meanwhile in the automotive industry, extraction systems increase precision by keeping press shops clean of residues caused by punching metal blanks for the production of gear parts.