Most buyers arriving at PowerDe already know what they want cleaned. A fleet manager wants trucks washed faster at the depot; a factory maintenance lead wants cutting fluid residue off a machining line; a hospital facilities team wants a machine that can handle beds and ward equipment. What usually varies between these buyers is not the cleaning principle but the machine around it: how it moves, how it is powered, what it connects to, and which safety protections matter in that specific room or yard. That is why customized steam cleaning equipment projects, rather than catalogue orders, make up a large part of our engineering work.
This article explains how our Shenzhen-based engineering team runs a custom project from the first enquiry to a machine on your production floor or wash bay, so you can judge whether the process fits your own timelines and internal resources.
A custom machine starts with your constraint, not our model list
When you send an enquiry, we do not open a product list and offer the closest model. The first round of questions is about the environment the machine has to survive in:
- Where the work happens — an indoor underground garage with a height limit, an open fuel-station forecourt, a hospital ward corridor, a machine shop with oil on the floor.
- What the operator does with it — walking behind the machine, pushing it, driving it, or running it stationary on a bench.
- What power and water are available — a 220 V supply, an on-board battery, tap water, or a recycled water loop.
- What the site will not tolerate — standing water near electrical cabinets, detergent residue on food-contact surfaces, long heat-up time between shifts.
Those four answers usually narrow the design far more than any brochure comparison would. Our range exists as a starting point: the Fixed Steam Cleaning Machine PowerDe HW02 for fixed 220 V wash positions, and the driving-style PWD01, PWD02 and HMW2 units for mobile work in tight garages and parking areas.
Stage 1 — Requirement review with an engineer, not a sales desk
The enquiry goes to the engineering team that will build the machine. Technical staff make up the majority of our personnel in Shenzhen, so the person who answers your first email is usually the person who will size the heater, choose the tank material and sign off the wiring.
At this stage we produce a written requirement sheet: the target surface or object, the soil being removed, cycle time per unit, the operator's posture, and the site's power and water limits. If a number in that sheet is wrong, the machine will be wrong, so we push for specifics and, where possible, photos or a short video of your current setup.
Stage 2 — Configuration on top of proven building blocks
Custom does not mean starting from a blank drawing. We modify proven platforms, which keeps cost and lead time under control and keeps spare parts common across your fleet. Typical decisions at this stage:
- Heating and steam output — element power, tank volume and tank material. The HW02 runs 6 kW of heating power into an 80 L SUS304 tank, reaching about 160° steam at 0.8 MPa; a food or medical site may need the same output with different surface finishes and drainage.
- Mode set — dry steam for degreasing and disinfection where standing water is unwanted, wet steam for loosening heavy soil, hot water for bulk rinsing. Our mobile units switch between all three.
- Mobility and footprint — hand-pushed, driven, or fixed. Some sites need the chassis narrowed to pass a gate; others need a compact frame for an indoor garage with low ceilings.
- Power source — mains-fed or battery-fed, with the matching protection package. Our mobile pages list leakage, short-circuit, high-temperature and water-shortage protection; a wash bay that runs unattended may need more.
If your project is really an OEM or ODM job — your brand, your industrial design, your control layout — we take that route as well, supported by our product development and hardware testing services.
Stage 3 — Prototype and testing before series production
A configuration drawing is not a machine. We build a sample and run it against the requirement sheet from Stage 1: steam temperature and pressure at the nozzle rather than at the boiler, heat-up time from cold, runtime on a battery charge, and how the machine behaves on the surface you actually clean. Where the numbers are not published on a product page, we measure them for your project and hand you the record.
Hardware testing sits in the same building as manufacturing, so a change found in testing turns into a modified part within the same week rather than a round trip between suppliers.
Stage 4 — Production, documentation and support
Once you sign off the sample, we move to batch production with the same bill of materials, and the machine ships with the documentation a purchasing or facilities department needs: wiring and schematic sheets, the parts list for consumables and wear items, and operating instructions. After delivery, the same engineering team handles questions about nozzles, chemicals, water quality and maintenance intervals, because a steam machine that is descaled late or fed hard water will underperform no matter how well it was built.
The same capability extends beyond cleaning. We design and build semiconductor process equipment and automated production line solutions, so buyers who need a cleaning step built into an automated line can have the machine, the integration and the control work handled as one package.
What to send us to start
A short enquiry is enough if it covers five points: what is being cleaned, how many units per day, indoor or outdoor, the available power and water supply, and any site rule about water, detergent or disinfection. Add photos of the space and you can usually expect a configuration proposal with the reasoning behind each choice, rather than a price alone.
Shenzhen PowerDe Automation Precision Equipment Co., Ltd. has been building automation and cleaning equipment in Shenzhen since 2007. To talk through a project, use the contact details on our contact page.
