Arizona Finishing offers a wide selection of value-added services that go beyond painting and powder coating, one of these is cleanroom assembly services.
What is a cleanroom?
A cleanroom is an environment that is completely free from contaminants such as dust, airborne microbes, aerosol particles, and chemical vapors, and is used mainly for manufacturing electronic components.
Cleanroom assembly services are used in practically every industry where small particles can adversely affect the manufacturing process.
Examples of industries that require clean room manufacturing are semiconductor manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, biotech, medical device and life sciences, as well as critical process manufacturing common in aerospace, optics, military and Department of Energy.
What is clean room assembly?
The power of computers and the semiconductor chips that run them have compounded at an extremely fast rate since the days of thousand pound vacuum tube computers that came about in the 1960’s.
Many of the components that are built with today’s technology require assembly in a clean room in order to avoid contamination.
This is especially true for most medical devices, but can apply to a range of products manufactured for a number of different industries.
Technicians that offer cleanroom assembly services are trained in the importance of following all protocols for personal protective equipment and clean-room entry and exit procedures.
This focus on protocol during manufacturing, assembly, testing and packaging ensures that a product is produced in a sterile and germ free environment.
Inspectors in clean rooms today often use inspection devices such as light scanners or magnifying viewers to help them recognize defective products.
Cleanroom Classifications
Cleanrooms are classified by how clean the air is.
There are Federal Standard in place that standardize and categorize the classification of clean rooms.
In Federal Standard 209 (A to D) of the USA, the number of particles equal to and greater than 0.5mm is measured in one cubic foot of air, and this count is used to classify the cleanroom.
For example, at Arizona Finishing, we operates a 890 sq. ft. ISO 7 (Class 10,000) clean room.
This gives us the capability to assemble, test and package products that require strict cleanliness standards.