Getting parts really clean: ultracleaning techniques for medical parts.(MEDICAL)

Medical-device manufacturers worry a doom about cleanliness. Even minute contaminants left above from manufacturing processes can lead to far-reaching medical complications, as well as interfering with later processes. To make matters worse, medical devices are shrinking and becoming more intricate, in the way that achieving a high level of cleanliness is increasingly difficult, if not impossible, with traditional cleaning modes Fortunately, several cleaning techniques--including ultrasonics, vacuum/pressure combination of parts to form a wholes microblasting, and plasma technology--are keeping pace with the