New trends in the industrial wiping industry: the rise of automation

As the manufacturing industry continues to move towards intelligence and efficiency, the field of industrial wiping is undergoing profound changes, and automation has become a significant trend in the development of the industry. Especially in the field of optical materials, such as touch screen accessories, liquid crystal displays, optical films, etc., the cleanliness requirements are extremely high. Traditional manual wiping methods are difficult to meet the growing production needs and quality standards. The combination of automatic cleaning machines and roll-type wiping cloths has emerged and gradually occupied a dominant position in the market.

From the market data, the market share of roll-type wiping cloths in the application scenarios of automatic cleaning machines has been increasing year by year. In the past 8 years, its market share has increased by 60%, and it is expected to continue to grow at a rate of 20% per year in the next 5 years. This growth is due to many factors. On the one hand, the popularity of automatic cleaning machines has greatly improved production efficiency. Taking a factory that produces touch screen accessories as an example, after the introduction of automatic cleaning equipment, the hourly wiping capacity is 6 times that of manual labor, and the product defect rate has been reduced from 25% to 0.5%. On the other hand, roll-type wiping cloths can achieve continuous supply, reduce the time for changing wiping materials, and improve production continuity. At the same time, its design is more in line with automatic cleaning equipment, which can give full play to the performance advantages of the equipment and achieve accurate and efficient cleaning operations.

At present, many well-known companies have started to deploy in the field of automated industrial wiping. TCL Technology has launched a new automatic cleaning production line, equipped with customized roll-type wiping cloth, which greatly improved production efficiency and product quality in the cleaning process of LCD panels, and quickly gained market favor, with orders increasing by 40% in half a year. Dongguan Yike Purification Material Technology Co., Ltd. focuses on the research and development of high-performance roll-type wiping cloth. Aiming at the characteristics of easy scratches on the surface of optical films, it is manufactured using special processes. When used with automatic cleaning equipment, it can effectively remove stains and avoid damage to the film surface to the greatest extent. Once the product was launched, it attracted the attention of many optical material manufacturers.

Looking to the future, with the continuous expansion of the optical materials market and the continuous advancement of automation technology, the automation trend of industrial wiping will become more and more obvious. More functional and customized roll-type wiping cloths will be developed to meet the cleaning needs of different optical materials. At the same time, automatic cleaning machines will also develop in the direction of intelligence and miniaturization, further reducing costs and improving applicability. It can be foreseen that driven by the wave of automation, the industrial wiping industry will usher in a new development pattern and provide strong support for the high-quality development of related industries such as optical materials.