Poor cleaning practices found in nearly half of packaging companies, Cold Jet's report says
2008-12-05
When it comes to the role of cleaning in producing consistent product quality, 49% of packaging industry decision makers indicated that their companies had produced poor quality products as a result of a poor cleaning job, a report says.
Cold Jet's "Industrial Cleaning Habits and Practices Report", released yesterday (Oct 2), unveiled that while nearly half of those surveyed indicated that production quality had been impacted because of poor cleaning, 81% still ranked the effectiveness of their cleaning methods as good, very good or excellent. Nearly 80% of companies are cleaning their equipment by hand with more than 55% of them opting to use chemicals and solvents as their main cleaning method.
"From the results of our survey, we recognized a clear gap between perception and reality when it comes to effectiveness of cleaning methods and actual product quality, which may indicate a general misunderstanding of the value of cleaning in the manufacturing process," said Stuart Rabkin, chief marketing officer of Cold Jet, LLC. "Companies that consider maintenance and cleaning as an important part of their operations and practices -- especially those who have 5S, Six Sigma, and TPM programs -- are more likely to embrace best practice cleaning methods because of their direct ability to significantly lower production costs."
According to the report, more than 69% of packaging industry decision makers indicated that they have to completely shut down production to clean their equipment while 41% have to dismantle and move equipment to another location to be cleaned, which is time consuming and places both equipment and workers at risk of damage or injury.
Cold Jet, LLC is the world leader in dry ice blasting and production technology. It is a private company with global headquarters in Loveland, Ohio and international operations in Europe, Asia, Canada and Mexico.
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