Suitability for cleanliness
Suitability for cleanliness is the suitability of equipment and air-conditioning components for use in rooms whose air purity and other parameters are assessed on the basis of technical rules. It can be found in investigations.
General
Trends such as the miniaturization of structures and greater reliability in technology, research and science require the provision of controlled, 'pure' production environments. Their task is to minimize influences that are harmful to the product. The clean room environments created by filtering the air were originally developed primarily for the needs of microelectronics and microsystem technology, but can now be found in numerous other high-tech sectors such as the photovoltaic and automotive industries.
Factors
Depending on the industry and process, different factors have a damaging effect on the product, for example:
- Particles especially in microelectronics such as the semiconductor industry, especially biotic particles in the life science industries such as pharmaceutical technology, biotechnology or medical technology ( cleanroom suitability )
- molecular impurities ( outgassing ), especially in microelectronics such as the semiconductor industry
- Electrostatic discharge phenomena ( ESD ), especially in microelectronics and the semiconductor industry
- Resistance to cleaning agents and disinfectants, especially in the life science industries such as pharmaceutical technology ( chemical resistance )
- Biological resistance (metabolism) especially in the life science industries such as pharmaceutical technology, biotechnology or medical technology
- Cleanability especially in the life science industries such as pharmaceutical technology, biotechnology or medical technology
- Antibacterial effectiveness ( microbicide ) especially in the life science industries such as pharmaceutical technology, biotechnology or medical technology
The following factors can cause contamination:
- The clean room itself,
- the staff, who, however, are increasingly losing their potential for contamination due to their displacement from the critical areas,
- the use of production systems, which increases with increasing automation solutions.
Production systems and the materials built into them, which are usually in direct contact with the product, are therefore a decisive contamination factor in pure production.