In today’s competitive manufacturing and restoration industries, time, precision, and consistency are everything. Traditional cleaning methods—scrubbing, solvents, and manual wiping—are not only slow but often fail to remove contaminants hidden in tight spaces or complex parts.

Enter industrial ultrasonic cleaning systems — the most advanced, eco-friendly, and cost-effective cleaning technology for manufacturers, machine shops, and restoration professionals alike.

What Is Industrial Ultrasonic Cleaning?

Industrial ultrasonic cleaning uses high-frequency sound waves (usually around 40 kHz) transmitted through a cleaning solution to create microscopic bubbles. These bubbles implode in a process called cavitation, releasing intense energy that blasts away dirt, oils, soot, rust, carbon, and other contaminants — even from blind holes and intricate geometries.

Unlike manual or spray cleaning, ultrasonic systems clean every surface, inside and out, without abrasion or damage.

Why Industrial Facilities Are Switching to Ultrasonic Cleaning

Modern manufacturing and restoration operations are under constant pressure to cut labor time, reduce chemical use, and improve quality. Ultrasonic cleaning checks all three boxes.

1. Precision Cleaning for Complex Parts

Industries like aerospace, automotive, electronics, and medical manufacturing rely on ultrasonic cleaning because it delivers uniform results, even on micro-machined components or delicate circuitry.

2. Speed and Efficiency

Ultrasonics clean in minutes what used to take hours. For example, carbon-coated engine parts, soot-damaged electronics, or industrial filters can be restored to “like-new” condition in just one ultrasonic cycle.

3. Eco-Friendly Operation

With biodegradable soaps and water-based detergents, Omegasonics systems reduce or eliminate harsh solvents and VOCs. That’s better for workers, equipment, and the planet.

4. Cost Savings

Industrial ultrasonic cleaning systems drastically cut labor costs and increase throughput. Many companies see an ROI in as little as 6–12 months.

Omegasonics: The Leader in Industrial Ultrasonic Cleaning Systems

For over two decades, Omegasonics has been the U.S. leader in ultrasonic cleaning technology — proudly designing and manufacturing every system in California.

From small bench-top tanks to large-capacity industrial ultrasonic cleaning systems, Omegasonics provides scalable solutions for:

• Manufacturing plants (metalworking, aerospace, automotive, 3D printing)

• Industrial maintenance (tooling, molds, filters, hydraulic parts)

• Restoration contractors (fire, smoke, contents, and electronics)

• Fire departments (gear decontamination with the Fire Service Equipment Pro®)

Applications Across Industries

Why Omegasonics Systems Stand Out

100% Stainless-Steel Construction

Built for industrial use, every Omegasonics tank is engineered to last for decades.

Customizable Frequencies & Tank Sizes

From 25 kHz for heavy carbon removal to 68 kHz for fine precision cleaning, Omegasonics matches your needs.

Modular Design for Workflow Integration

Integrate ultrasonic tanks with your assembly line, rinse stations, and drying cabinets for complete cleaning cells.

U.S. Training and Support

Unlike imported systems, Omegasonics includes full setup, training, and lifetime support from experts who understand your operation.

Real-World Results: From Restoration to Manufacturing

• Manufacturing Plant Example: A metal-fabrication company cut cleaning time by 70% and reduced chemical use by 80%.

• Fire Restoration Example: A restoration contractor used Omegasonics’ Restoration Pro® System to restore smoke-damaged contents 3× faster than by hand.

• Electronics Example: A service center restored hundreds of soot-damaged PS5 and flat-screen TVs using the Electronics Pro® system — with zero component damage.

Sustainability Meets Productivity

With increasing regulations on chemical waste and workplace safety, ultrasonic cleaning offers a sustainable alternative that aligns with green-manufacturing goals.

• No hazardous waste disposal

• Lower energy and water consumption

• Recyclable cleaning solutions

Choosing the Right Industrial Ultrasonic Cleaning System

When selecting a system, consider:

1. Part size and load capacity

2. Contaminant type (oil, soot, carbon, etc.)

3. Desired cleaning frequency (25–68 kHz)

4. Workflow integration (manual or automated)

Omegasonics’ team provides a free evaluation of your parts and recommends the best equipment setup — from single tanks to multi-bay automated systems.

Final Thoughts

The industries that embrace ultrasonic cleaning today will define the productivity standards of tomorrow. With unmatched performance, eco-efficiency, and support, Omegasonics industrial ultrasonic cleaning systems are transforming how manufacturers and restoration professionals clean and restore components.

This makes the dental industry ideal for using ultrasonic cleaners.

Don’t Take Chances

What we would consider a standard dishwasher will never adequately clean these types of equipment and tools. Cleaning instruments used in dental offices by hand may seem like a good idea, but the nature of this equipment would make it virtually impossible to get into every nook and crevice to ensure these pieces are properly cleaned and sanitized. In this health care industry, this is simply a risk that is not worth taking.

There is also the time factor, as it will take hours for staff to clean equipment used throughout the day when they could be servicing more customers. When you consider all elements, purchasing an ultrasonic cleaning machine will enable you to recover costs rather quickly.

Ultrasonic Cleaning

There are basically three elements to ultrasonic cleaning that make it very effective:

• Heat
• Ultrasonic waves
• Cleaning agents

Reaching the proper temperature while handwashing is virtually impossible. Even if the water is at the right temperature to start, it will likely cool during the cleaning process, putting the equipment and your patients at risk. Ultrasonic tanks heat the water and continue to heat the water to the proper temperature throughout the cleaning process, ensuring germs are killed and protein coagulation is prevented.

The genuinely unique factor of industrial ultrasonic cleaning machines is the use of ultrasonic waves. These waves create bubbles that form and implode on the equipment being cleaned. This is simply impossible to replicate with handwashing or even a standard dishwasher. These imploding bubbles enable the cleaning agents to get into every crack and crevice of the tools and/or equipment to ensure they are immaculate when the cleaning cycle is over.

Choosing the proper cleaning agent is essential in numerous avenues. First and foremost, you need the proper cleaning agent for your specific industry. For example, dental offices will use a completely different cleaning agent than a garage or bicycle repair shop.

We would like to make another point: our cleaning agents are all water-based, which means no harmful chemicals are used during the cleaning process. This not only benefits the environment and makes disposal much easier, but it will also help prolong the life of your dental tools and equipment.

Considering an Ultrasonic Cleaner for Your Dental Practice?

We realize this is a big decision, which is why we have our team of experts ready to answer all your questions. A team member will help you choose a “standard” machine or help you design a custom build if that is what is needed to suit your needs. Our team members will also ensure that you get the perfect cleaning agent. For more information about our ultrasonic cleaners, click here. Or, if you would like to have a consultation with a member of our team, give us a call at 888-898-5560.

Many manufacturing businesses today have plastic components that must be cleaned. In some cases, these pieces cannot be used in a high-heat environment, such as is used in ultrasonic cleaning. Examples of this would be plastics with a much softer shell (think your average water bottle). These more delicate pieces and pieces that have simpler designs are often better being hand-cleaned. However, there are absolutely plastics that can benefit from being cleaned with industrial ultrasonic cleaning equipment.

Meeting the Challenges

In many manufacturing and foodservice businesses, plastic parts with small holes and/or crevices can be virtually impossible to clean by hand. Chances are, because of the way these pieces are used, they will be made of harder components. That being said, they will be able to hold up to the heat and cleaning process used in ultrasonic cleaning. There are, however, some factors to consider before using ultrasonic cleaning equipment to clean plastics.

Degree of Contamination

Plastics tend to grip contaminants, which, given the right construction, makes them ideal for this cleaning process, especially if the equipment has crevices and holes where the contaminants may be far more challenging to clean by hand. The implosion of the bubbles created by ultrasonic waves ensures the cleaning solution gets into every crack and crevice to remove contamination from every surface.

Plastic Density

If the parts are low-density plastics, chances are they would not stay in the bottom of the tank but rather float around on the surface. This could result in some surfaces not being properly cleaned. Rather than just dumping these types of pieces into the tank to clean, using a weighted mesh-style basket to cover them will still enable the parts to be cleaned properly.

Plastic Rigidity

Plastic that is flexible and soft is usually not suitable for this type of cleaning. The nature of the construction of such equipment means that the parts will flex and absorb the ultrasonic waves used in the cleaning process, which could reduce the effectiveness of the cleaning itself. These types of plastics are what we recommend cleaning by hand.

Cleaning Solution or Cleaning Chemicals?

When using plastics, they can be very susceptible to damage when using powerful cleaning chemicals in the cleaning process. Omegasonics offers a wide variety of water-based cleaning agents that will not break down the plastic components. We cannot stress enough how important it is to use the proper cleaning agent in this type of cleaning.

Interested?

If you have plastic components, we highly recommend discussing your cleaning options with an expert member of our team. Our team member can discuss the type of components that will be cleaned to see which one of our Omegasonics industrial ultrasonic washers will work best for your business, as well as helping you choose the proper cleaning agents. If we don’t have a “standard” machine, there is also the option of a custom-built machine specifically to meet your needs. Give us a call at 888-989-5560, or you can request a custom quote on our website (click here).

Just like when Goldilocks broke into the home of the Three Bears, she tasted the first porridge and it was too hot. Then she tasted the next porridge-too cold. Once she moved over to the third porridge, you guessed it, just right. But this was according to Goldilocks taste preference. Some other intruder with different taste sensations may have had an entirely different experience with temperature.

Same thing goes with industrial cleaning applications. There is no one magical temperature for all. What determines the bath temperature involves several factors.

• What contaminant are you removing?
• What chemistry are you using?
• What type of material are you cleaning: plastic, soft metal, hard metal, graphite etc?
• What is the desired outcome – how clean does it need to be?
• Is there another step following the cleaning process?

We all know that cleaning in hot water is better than cold based on years of dish washing experience. Then why not go with the hottest water possible, almost boiling, and cut to the chase?

Because cleaning soaps break down and fail at different temperatures. Having the correct detergent to decouple contaminants from surfaces is even more important than the bath temperature in most cases. If you destroy the detergent formulation, you won’t achieve your cleaning results, regardless of how hot you operate the bath.

Because plastics will warp and generally deform in fluids that are above their melting point.

Because soft metal surfaces can get scarred or develop star bursts on the surfaces during ultrasonic cleaning. Surface scarring will show through even in secondary plating processes. Extremely hot water is very detrimental in this situation.

Because cleaning personnel could encounter serious safety issues such as burns, when the bath fluid is extremely hot.

If your application deals with removing heavy greases, mold release or carbons from cast iron surfaces, then the hotter the better. But in most cleaning applications, you need to operate in an operating range of 120 – 150°F which is fairly hot as it is.

So just like Goldilocks, getting your bath cleaning temperature “just right” is key to cleaning success

Cavitations produced in a liquid by high frequency – or ultrasonic – sound waves result in streams of liquids essentially “power washing” objects on a microscopic level. What role does temperature play in the process?

As temperature increases, the number of cavitation bubbles at first increase before falling off.

At the liquid’s boiling point, cavitation produced by ultrasonic sound waves introduced into the liquid stops completely.

In addition to a decrease in the number of bubbles, the size and energy of the streams they produce decrease as well. This can be demonstrated by a foil test, where a piece of foil is placed in industrial ultrasonic cleaners. The size and distribution of the holes produced in the foil reveal the characteristics of the cavitation taking place.

At higher temperatures, the holes in the foil are smaller and more evenly distributed. While the force of the cleaning stream is reduced, the overall coverage is increased. Finding the right temperature of operation may involve balancing these characteristics.

A figure of 60 degrees Celsius for a water bath is typically used. Generally, a figure of 65% of the boiling point of the liquid is used. The choice of temperature is often determined by the detergent used in the solution, if any. The detergents often have an optimum temperature, which takes precedence over the optimum temperature for agitation. If an acid is being used as a cleaning fluid, temperatures need to be kept as low as possible to prevent the acid damaging the stainless steel tank used in ultrasonic cleaning.

Next, we examine the effect of frequency on ultrasonic cleaning. The final installment looks at the need and advantages of varying the frequency.

If you would like to learn more about ultrasonic cleaners, feel free to contact one of our ultrasonic cleaning experts toll free at (888) 420-4445 or visit our website.

First, a brief review of ultrasonic cleaning. An ultrasound generator along with special transducers mounted to the bottom of a liquid-filled stainless steal bath, alternately compresses and expands the liquid between 25,000 and 130,000 times a second, depending on the application.

This, in turn, generates bubbles, which collapse at high speed, increasing the temperature of the liquid and producing a high energy liquid stream which collides with the surface of the object being cleaned. Essentially, the object is cleaned with a high energy jet spray at the microscopic level.

The choice of liquid for can have a significant effect on the performance of industrial ultrasonic cleaners. While water is most often the choice for ultrasonic cleaning, plain water can be augmented with detergents, or even replaced with other solvents in certain applications.

The video below shows how “chemistry detectives” can test different combinations of variables and chemistries to find the most effective ultrasonic cleaning recipe.

Adding detergents lowers the surface tension of the liquid which reduces the energy required to form bubbles. This can dramatically increase the cavitation, or process by which the bubbles collapse producing the high temperature liquid streams which clean the surfaces. The increased efficiency in producing this cleansing agitation along with the inherent cleaning properties of the detergent results in increased effectiveness of industrial ultrasonic cleaners.

The choice of cleaning medium (called the “chemistry”) is critical to the effectiveness of ultrasonic cleaning. The substrate – or material to be cleaned – as well as the kind of contaminants to be removed, are key factors to consider in selecting the cleaning chemistry. While water or detergents dissolved in water are the most common chemistry used in industrial ultrasonic cleaners, other solvents might by better suited for particular applications.

If you would like to learn more about ultrasonic cleaners, feel free to contact one of our ultrasonic cleaning experts toll free at (888) 420-4445 or visit our website.

The world is turning “green” and more businesses than ever are choosing safe and eco friendly methods to clean their industrial parts and machinery.

One reason ultrasonic technology is superior to other forms of cleaning is its main ingredients: soap and water.

How are you currently handling your industrial parts cleaning and waste water disposal? Prior cleaning methods used chemicals toxic to the environment, as well as to human skin and organs.

These types of chemicals must be disposed of in a particular manner, and usually involve contracting with a third party company who specializes in disposing substances with a petroleum base.

Alternatively, ultrasound typically uses water and water-based cleaning agents which is why it is the most eco-friendly cleaning option in the world. In most instances draining your machine is easy. However, cleaning extremely greasy and dirty parts will require a specialized disposal process. This is because the parts being clean are contaminated, not because of the water-based soaps.

In such a situation, we recommend evaporating the ultrasonic bath, which leaves only greasy sludge behind. The sludge can be collected, and, after several bath changes, you’ll have enough sludge so that it can be transported to a processing plant. This will save you money with disposing your waste.

One of our clients, Mercury Marine, recently purchased a wastewater-recycling machine and began to use it onsite. These smart filters use a flocculation process that first binds the containments, and then passes the bath through a filter trapping all of the particles. The filtered bath is then pumped back into the ultrasonic cleaning tank resulting in even lower cleaning costs. The filtered sludge is dried and easily disposed. Each month they save a great deal of money by simply reusing their water supply.

How are you currently handling your industrial parts cleaning and waste water disposal? Our team at Omegasonics can provide you with more information on how your company can do these burdensome tasks safer, cheaper, and more efficiently. Call 800-669-8227.

As government regulations on toxic chemicals used in the workforce were tightened, industrial companies were frantically searching for newer and safer ways to clean their dirty, oily, and contaminated parts.

Today, it is more important than ever to maintain and achieve the highest quality levels of precision cleaning in many different industries due to constantly changing requirements.

There are hundreds of industries that use ultrasound as their first choice for safe and effective cleaning. Currently, ultrasound is the premier cleaning technology for the automotive, marine, pharmaceutical, aerospace, musical instrument, firearm, disaster restoration and other industries requiring absolute precision cleaning.

Other methods of aqueous-based industrial cleaning can use a lot of water, which goes directly down the drain or has to be collected and disposed of properly depending on the toxic levels. Water waste can come from the manufacturing process, scrubbers, mops, tanks and more. There are several technologies that recycle water but these systems can be costly especially for smaller operations. Despite the effort and resources, none of them have been nearly as effective as ultrasound.

Are you in a specialized industry that could benefit from ultrasonic cleaning? Take a look at some of these industrial ultrasonic cleaning case studies to see how companies of every size are cleaning more efficiently and increasing their bottom line!

Using ultrasound will more than please even the most meticulous inspectors, reduce your labor overhead, and increase your bottom line. Ultrasound doesn’t use any harsh chemicals so you don’t have to worry about putting toxic substances near food, supplements and pharmaceutical items.

Ultrasonic tanks generally use water-based soaps or just water alone to easily and effectively remove dirt, scale minerals, grime, oils and other residues from most surfaces. Filler valves, vitamin molds and dispensing equipment to name a few are the more common items being cleaned with precision ultrasonic cleaning systems in the food industry.

In an industry with a wide range of products that need to be cleaned, ultrasonic machines are built to accommodate your particular work area. Ultrasonic cleaning units can also be customized to meet your specific needs, size, power and other specifications. By using only a variety of mild solutions including citric acid and water, ultrasound is able to meticulously and safely remove dirt, scale minerals, grime, oil and other resides from virtually any surface without exposing employees or your product to unsafe chemicals.

Our friend, Dave Pierson formerly of from Pepsi Bottling Group had this to say about his experience with ultrasound machine, “The ultrasonic cleaners are working great! The precision parts in our fillers have never been cleaner or rebuilt as well!”

Companies all across the nation such as Anheuser-Busch and Natural Alternatives are all using Omegasonics’ machines to clean ultrasonically in the medical, food and drug industry!

For more information, please see omegasonics.com

To uncover how to optimize these elements, we use our state-of-the-art testing lab located in Simi Valley, California.

We think of our testing lab sort of like a “CSI crime scene lab” and even refer to ourselves as “chemistry detectives”.

Omegasonics has a large library of ultrasonic cleaning protocols for a variety of parts. However, if we get a call regarding an item that we have never tested before, we will have the client send us their dirty and contaminated parts.

That will enable us to test different batches in different chemistries to find the most effective combinations. Time, temperature and orientation are all experimented with and varied. This information is cross-examined by an ultrasonic cleaning process sheet. A process sheet is a detailed series of instructions regarding temperature, time, etc… on how to clean an item along with a cleaning recipe.

After extensive research is conducted, Omegasonics isolates the best ultrasonic cleaning protocol, document the method, and send the items back to our customers along with the correct ultrasonic cleaning process. We can even put the testing on camera and upload it onto YouTube for real time observation.

If you or anyone else knows of an industrial tool or part with an unidentified cleaning process, contact us immediately! We love using our top notch test lab to uncover more ultrasonic cleaning mysteries. It’s elementary, my dear Watson it’s the smarter choice!