Clean Rooms Blog

Clean Rooms and Duct Tape

micheals — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:21:09 +0000

In the days, months and years immediately following the September 11th, 2001 attacks, threats to national security seemed to be popping up out of nowhere, some credible, some incredible. I remember, for example, when fear of coordinated biological wa

Industrial Clean Rooms – Reality vs Unreality

micheals — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:25:23 +0000

Hard drive manufacturing in an industrial clean room - image source

You might not think of clean rooms as being industrial utilities. Many people might instead picture scenes from a Dustin Hoffman movie involving

The Responsibility of Clean Room Manufacturers

micheals — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:45:36 +0000

Clean room manufacturers deal in trust as much as they do in clean rooms. I remember hearing once that the medical profession is the only profession from which perfection is always demanded. At the time I heard that, it seemed like a sensible enough

High Tech Fabrication in Semiconductor Clean Rooms

micheals — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:28:37 +0000

Ever heard of Moore’s law? The law states, basically, that approximately every two years, the number of transistors that can be included in an integrated circuit doubles. In other words, every two years, the amount of necessary space occupied by th

Laminar Clean Rooms and Bubble Boy

micheals — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:55:19 +0000

I’ve long been a fan of the T.V. show, Seinfeld. In case you’re not familiar with the show, it’s a situational comedy written by real-life comedian Jerry Seinfeld in which he and the rest of the cast, over the course of nine seasons, act out se

Clean Room Air Showers are Important Clean Room Accessories

micheals — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:56:37 +0000

Air showers – you’ve probably seen them in science fiction movies. They’re the equipment that is responsible for the burst of air or other gasses when a person enters certain kinds of clean rooms with strict air quality regulation requirements.

Advanced Research and Manufacturing Clean Rooms

micheals — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:08:06 +0000

On November 26, NASA launched its latest excursion to the surface of Mars; 244 days from now, the Curiosity probe is scheduled to touch down on the surface of Mars. The 2,000 lbs, nuclear powered rover has been described by NASA officials as the most

The Importance of Clean Room Clothing

micheals — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:17:22 +0000

The words “clean room” are just as likely to evoke images of people in protective clothing as they are to evoke images of actual rooms and equipment. As important as all of the constituent equipment in a clean room is, the protective clothing oft

Clean Room Companies: Equipment and Systems

micheals — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:55:32 +0000

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T1Ahr6cibc

There are two kinds of buyers when it comes to clean rooms: equipment buyers and unit buyers (to learn more about clean rooms, see the brief informational video above). Equipment buyers are companies or representat

ISO Clean Room Guidelines

micheals — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:45:39 +0000

If you were to take special instrumentation and collect a sample of the air that you’re breathing at this moment, you’d be likely to find, once you brought the air to a laboratory, that it contains a certain level of contamination. The list of th