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title: "In practice: choose a cleaning system that suits a food company"
description: The purchase of a cleaning system is not a daily cost for business owners.  So it is no surprise that you may be lacking knowledge in this area.
image: https://www.elpress.com/hubfs/web-images/tmpBLOG%204O4Y19d.webp
---

# In practice: choose a cleaning system that suits a food company

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 Published: November 23, 2018  |  Updated: July 08, 2024

**The purchase of a cleaning system - or Open Plant Cleaning (OPC) system - is not a daily cost for business owners. **** So it is no surprise that you may be lacking knowledge in this area. However, most entrepreneurs do have some ideas when they are about to buy such a system. Nevertheless, good advice is also indispensable. Because you naturally want the best cleaning system for your business, within your budget.**

The practical case below shows you how decisive proper, professional advice can be when purchasing a [cleaning system](https://www.elpress.com/cleaning-systems/).

## Ideas for an Open Plant Cleaning (OPC) system

Entrepreneur X has taken the decision to purchase a cleaning system. He thought that he would be able to clean his production hall using a [high-pressure pump](https://www.elpress.com/products/cleaning-systems/booster-units/pressure-booster-units-40-bar) with a working pressure of 40 bar. This is a decentralised system in which the chemical (the cleaning agent) is stored in separate jerry cans on the shop floor and no use is made of a central storage facility for the chemical or a central network of pipes. He presented his idea to the specialist, who asked the following questions, among others, and then provided appropriate advice:

- ## How dirty is the production area?
  
   
  
  **Answer**: ‘Not too bad, actually. We clean extensively on a daily basis, so there are no dried-on or stubborn residual products.’
  
  ***Advice**: a working pressure of 40 bar is not required for this degree of soiling. 20 bar is more than enough.  
  *

- ## Do you have an existing production area or is there a new building?
  
  **Answer**: ‘We are fitting out a new building.’ 
  
  ***Advice**: In new buildings, a centralised system is preferable to decentralised cleaning. In new buildings, it is relatively easy to lay a network of pipes and create a central space.*

The most important advantages of centralised cleaning over decentralized cleaning:

- Increased safety: no concentrated chemicals on the shop floor.
- More efficient chemical consumption: the concentration of detergent in the pipes is more constant and coordinated exactly to the required quantity. So you never use too much.
- Safer working: there is no need to carry jerry cans and no chemical residues are thrown away.
- You pay less environmental tax: decentralised jerry cans on the shop floor mean more chemical waste and therefore higher waste costs.

## Best choice for an Open Plant Cleaning (OPC) system

With the above arguments, the specialist showed the entrepreneur that it is more sensible to choose a centralised cleaning system than a decentralized one. In his specific situation, it is not only safer and more efficient, but also a better investment because it proved easy to integrate the system into the new building, allowing an ideal OPC system to be realised in this way.

## Testing your ideas

Are you looking to purchase a cleaning system? Then always present your ideas to one of our specialists, so that you are guaranteed the right choice. For more information about the issues that matter when purchasing a cleaning system, please also download the [white paper ‘The right choice for a cleaning system or crate washer’.](https://content.elpress.com/en/whitepaper-advice-systems)

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