When it is not the individual part that runs through the system, but the batch.
Basket Cleaning
1 · The challenge
“How do I reach every part in this batch equally well”
For small and mass-produced parts that would be neither economical nor necessary — they run through the process as a batch. That shifts the actual question: no longer “how do I reach this one part”, but “how do I reach every part in this batch equally well”.
2 · Engineering considerations
The basket is not a means of transport but part of the process
It determines how the parts lie, how the process medium gets through between them and whether areas cover each other.
That makes the workpiece fixture the decisive design element here.
If parts lie unfavorably on top of each other, the same unreachable zones arise as with the spray shadow — only not from the geometry of the component, but from the position in the batch.
3 · How it relates to the other methods
A batch in the basket can be sprayed, immersed or flooded
It is therefore combined with the other methods. With bulk parts, as a rule, a flooding system within a chamber cleaning system is used.
4 · Where the method is used
Chamber and immersion cleaning systems, depending on the task
- 01
Chamber cleaning systems
For changing components, processed batch by batch. - 02
Immersion cleaning systems
When the batch has to be fully immersed.
Questions and answers
Frequently asked questions about basket cleaning
What is basket cleaning?
Applications
One task on which this method is decided
Each case sets out the design factors, the possible system concepts and the methods in detail — here you only find what it is about.
Gearbox housing
Besides the housing, gearbox components and gears run through the same production, and on them the task presents itself differently: many parts of the same kind, and the contamination sits between the teeth. Guided through the system one at a time, no cycle carries the required number.
This case does not inevitably lead to basket cleaning. Which method it becomes arises from the interplay of the design factors — the method is the result of the system design, not its starting point.
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