ELAS Techday series – cleaning techdays
2025.09.23. - 2025.09.24.
Dear Partner!
We are pleased to invite you to the 5th event in our series of professional events at ELAS! This time the topic of our technology event will be the different cleaning technologies, focusing on cleaning machines and special cleaning materials. Through presentations and live demonstrations, with the help of real practical examples, we will present the solutions we represent and offer the opportunity for a professional dialogue covering the cleaning technology.
The event will take place on two consecutive days – 23 and 24 of September, mostly in hungarian and english language, with the same programme on each days, please register for your preferred date:
The location of our event is the ELAB – the training- and showroom of our Budapest office:
1165 Budapest, Nyílpuska u. 6.
The planned program of our cleaning technology event:
| 09.00-09.10 | Welcome – briefly about ELAS | Zoltán Szilassi – ELAS |
| 09.10-09.40 | Understencil wiping, stencil cleaning and inspection – Key to avoiding misprints and defective boards | Gábor Ozsváth – ELAS |
| 09.40-10.10 | Maintenance cleaning in the electronics industry – Ready tools, reliable quality | Gábor Hámornik – ELAS |
| 10.10-10.50 | Following IPC Standards – PCB cleanliness and reliability | Béla Bődi – ELAS |
| 10.50-11.05 | Coffee break | |
| 11.05-11.35 | Not Clean Enough? The hidden cause of electronic failures | Péter Gordon – EFI Labs |
| 11.35-12.05 | PCB cleaning – Mastering a cleaning process control | Vladimír Sítko – PBT Works |
| 12.05-12.55 | Lunch break | |
| 12.55-13.25 | Inline PCB Cleaning – When does inline come into play? | Eric Becker – ITW EAE |
| 13.25-13.55 | Cleanliness quality control: Failure analysis & risk mitigation | Kristyna Zakova – Zestron |
| 13.55-14.10 | Coffee break | |
| 14.10-16.00 | HandsOn (live demonstration with ELAS engineers | |
| PBT HyperSwash: High performance PCB cleaning | ||
| Microcare manual fluxremoval: Cleaning after hand soldering quickly and simply | ||
| Zestron test: Make flux residues visible | ||
| PBT HyperClean: High capacity maintenence cleaning machine for pallets and more | ||
| Grif-Eye AOI: Innovation in Cleanliness: Automated Stencil Inspection | ||
| 16.00-16.30 | Event closing & fun |
Participation is free, but registration is required! Please register here:
Our presenters:
Dr. Hurtony Tamás, PhD
EFI-Labs Kft, BME ETT
Electrical engineer, physicist, founding member of EFI-labs
He is a founding member of EFI-labs and an associate professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He is an electrical engineer and physicist. His field of expertise is the examination of interconnections in electronic products using routine analytical methods and the tools of science.
Kristyna Zakova
Zestron a Business Division of Dr. O.K. Wack Chemie GmbH
Project Engineer Applied Research
Studied Mechanical Engineering with a focus on Manufacturing Technology and Quality Management at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. At Zestron, she works in the Applied Research department, engaging in research projects both internally and in cooperation with external partners. Her focus is on analytics, particularly ion chromatography and technical cleanliness, as well as the exploration of new analytical methods and the requirements for cleaning challenging surfaces. Thanks to her practical experience in the lab and plant engineering, she places great emphasis on the feasibility and real-world applicability of research results.
Bődi Béla
ELAS
Training Manager
Béla is now an Application and Training Manager and a fully qualified IPC Master Trainer and an instructor at Selective Soldering Academy USA (in Hungary). He is one of the co-authors of the book: ”Soldering and Alternative Bindings in the Electronics Industry” published in 2021. He is the writer of “Hand Soldering in Practice” handbook and the soft soldering chapter of “Welding Technical Book” which were published in 2023.
Vladimír Sítko
PBT Works s.r.o.
Founder
Vladimir Sitko is a founder and mentor of PBT Works s.r.o, a recognized manufacturer of electronic assemblies cleaning systems. After finishing his studies at Technical University, he started his career as a designer of measuring devices for silicon analysis and machines for chip processing, assembly, and encapsulation. In 90-ties, he gained expertise in soldering, paste printing, and PCBA cleaning. At the same time, he built the first cleaning machines for PCBA cleaning in his company. Cleaning assemblies and tools for microelectronic assembly have become his primary focus until now. He participates in several research tasks for cleaning technology. He owns several patents for details of cleaning machines and test tools.
Eric Becker
ITW EAE
Engineering Manager
Eric Becker is from Missouri, United States. He studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas. He started working at ITW EAE Electrovert in 1998. He has been working as a cleaning engineer R&D since 2007 and now he is the Cleaner technology manager at ITW EAE Electrovert.
