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At the recent SMTA International 2018, Tom Forsythe, executive vice president of KYZEN Corp., busts myths around "how-clean-is-clean." He discusses the increasing cleaning challenges as devices get more dense and form factors become even smaller, and how these trends are driving the need for cleaning and causing a gap in cleaning knowledge.
He also speaks about their new products in data collection and monitoring software for cleaning equipment.
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