Once ultrasonic cleaning technology moved into the mainstream and became more accessible, it began to emerge in forms that could be used by consumers and small commercial operations. Today, you can buy your own small ultrasonic cleaner for a very reasonable price and use it to clean your jewelry, firearms, golf clubs and a wide variety of other items of limited size and quantity. Those are the two main restrictions that still present themselves to small-scale users of ultrasonic cleaning systems. But in industry, large scale ultrasonic cleaning machines are common and in high demand.

Ultrasonic cleaning, despite its high efficiency and effectiveness, presents a few challenges to its users. An item that is being cleaned by an ultrasonic cleaner must be contained within the ultrasonic cleaning solution, and that solution must itself be contained within a tank. The challenge for industry is inserting and removing objects from these tanks quickly and easily in such a way that the process is economical on large scales. One of the ways that industry has found to make the ultrasonic cleaning process automated is to use ultrasonic cleaning baskets, which are wire mesh or other baskets that contain items to be cleaned that get lowered into cleaning tanks. This way objects don’t have to be retrieved by hand or by specially-designed grabbing tools. The baskets themselves can be suspended by equipment that isn’t submerged and that can move the baskets, once their contents have been cleaned sufficiently, as needed.

Ultrasonic cleaning baskets are useful because they are permeable to the cleaning solution but not to the objects being cleaned. They can be inserted and removed by automated machinery, and automation makes the cleaning process faster and more efficient. Ultrasonic cleaning baskets contribute greatly to the ease of use and efficiency of the process.