What’s your cleanroom costing you?
To answer the question, we looked at the fact, on average, as much as 80% of the total energy used by a cleanroom is consumed by the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system. …
EMS or BMS… what are they and should they be separate?
An Environmental Monitoring System (EMS) is very different from a Building Management System (BMS) – an EMS monitors the environment of a facility, whereas a BMS controls the environment.
What are the options?
There are many …
Filter Specifications and Efficiencies: Fundamental Changes to Filter Standards
Filter Specifications and Standards
Following a review by the CEN (European Committee for Standardisation), there have been changes to the following European Standards providing changes to the classifications of filters, allowing clear definition and clarity …
12 Things that should no longer be seen in cleanrooms
Pharmaceutical Cleanrooms | Cleanroom Design Flaws: 12 things that should no longer be seen in cleanrooms | Over the past few years, I have walked through many different clean rooms, both old and new, …
Cleanrooms in Simple Terms
What makes a cleanroom a clean room?
Like anything technical, how a cleanroom works is essentially basic, but wrapped up in a whole lot of jargon, standards, rules and regulations. The basic principles are actually …
Mr Clean, Inventor of the Cleanroom Passes Away
I have always said that Cleanroom Technology is not rocket science. Although it seems the modern cleanroom was developed to assist with the progression of rocket technology.
Working out of Sandia National Laboratories, Willis Whitfield, …
The Real Value of a Cleanroom
Cleanrooms have been part of Life Science manufacturing for a long time, for example a device, pharmaceutical or a pharmacy clean room all have specific design requirements to make sure that they add value. …
New changes to cleanroom & clean air device classifications: ISO 14644–1 and ISO 14644–2
This white paper describes the changes outlined in the Draft International Standard (DIS) editions of ISO 14644-1 and ISO 14644-2 relating to clean room & clean air device classifications: ISO 14644–1 and ISO 14644–2.
When the …