Quotes for an industrial ultrasonic cleaner can only be compared when every supplier has answered the same questions. This checklist sets out what to write down first.
Quality and procurement teams call the finished document a URS (user requirement specification). Most of it can be filled in from the workshop floor in an hour.
Each section feeds the next. The part and the soil set the chemistry. The cleanliness test sets the process. Throughput and the site set the machine.
Size, weight, materials, features.
What it is and where it comes from.
The test the part has to pass.
Parts per shift and how they arrive.
Before, after, rinse and dry.
Power, water, drains, floor.
Logs, recipes, approvals.
Photos, drawings, data sheets.
The largest part sets the tank. The smallest feature sets the frequency and how the part sits in the basket.
The soil and the metal together choose the chemistry. Name both and most applications are settled.
Name the measurement. A part is clean when it passes a test that someone has written down.
If no measure exists yet, write down what the next process needs. Coating, welding, assembly or inspection each sets its own standard.
With a reference photo.
Where coating or bonding follows.
Milligrams per part.
To ISO 16232 or VDA 19.
For electronics.
Flow, pressure drop, a gauge check.
Choose one and write the limit beside it. How to prove a part is clean sets out each test.
Tank size follows from the largest part and the batch. Cycle time and the number of stages follow from the parts per shift.
A single tank cleans. Rinsing, rust protection and drying are separate stages, and the checklist should say which ones the part needs.
Site services decide what can be installed and where. Check them before the quote.
Audited work needs the cycle on record. Say who reads the record and what it must show.
Send as much as you have. A part list and a few photos are enough to start.
The dirtiest part, close up, and the part in its rack or basket.
A drawing, or the main dimensions and weight.
For the soil, and for any chemistry you run now.
If the soil is unusual, a sample helps settle the chemistry.
Through the enquiry page, or as much of it as you have.
A machine, a chemistry and any questions still open.
We quote against your checklist. Engineered systems are tested against it before despatch.
Work out the tank from the part and the batch.
How cleanliness is measured, test by test.
When a part needs spray, rinse and dry stages.
Benchtop, floor-standing and engineered systems.
Pre-despatch testing and acceptance records.
Sign online before you send drawings.
Send the checklist, or as much of it as you have. Technical sales will come back with a machine, a chemistry and the questions still open.