Swabs are often thought of as just tufts of cotton fiber wrapped around a stick. And while cotton swabs have their uses, more complex solutions are needed for critical industries like medical device assembly, cleanroom, electronic manufacturing, and PCB assembly.
Swabs are useful precision tools for technicians and operators to perform delicate and meticulous tasks like precision cleaning, repair, and assembly. In this post, we'll cover the swab selection process of four common critical swab applications and their properties:
Precision cleaning and contamination removal
Application of critical fluids e.g. lubricants, adhesives, coatings, dopants, treatments
Cleaning validation and surface sampling
Static sensitive applications