Teknek’s new FastPad will ‘speed up yield improvement’

Teknek, provider of contact cleaning technology, has introduced an automatic cleaning station to use sheeted adhesive rolls instead of the traditional large flat pad system.

‘Fast Pad’ uses the proven range of Teknek cleaning engines that are capable of removing dry unattached particles down to one micron in size from a wide range of substrates. The unit’s small foot print is designed to allow it to be placed (or wall mounted) in a work area where PCBs, SMT boards, LCD’s, flat panels are being manufactured.

The operator cleans the substrate using the Teknek DCR (Dust Cleaning Roller). They then place it into the FastPad where the adhesive roll starts to rotate automatically and cleans the DCR.

‘No production time is taken to clean the DCR and the operator is able to continue their process when the DCR is being cleaned. (The traditional system still requires the hand roller to be dragged over the adhesive pad to clean it.) The process time to clean a substrate can be reduced by up to 50 percent, and the number of repetitive actions required to use the roller is reduced,’ said the company in a statement.

The FastPad system ensures that all the surface area of the sheeted adhesive roll is fully utilized – 100 percent use of the area ensures no wasted pad is thrown away.

The larger surface area and the thicker coat weight of the sheeted adhesive roll hold more contamination than the pad.