Industry
Controlled environments for precision manufacturing and electronics
Temperature, humidity and particle control for assembly and process areas, plus the ventilation and equipment cooling that keep a production floor stable.
The problem
What has to be controlled, and what usually goes wrong
Every one of these is a design decision rather than a commissioning adjustment, which is why they are settled before anything is ordered.
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Stability, not just setpoint
Precision assembly is usually sensitive to the swing rather than the average. A system that holds a setpoint on design day and drifts three degrees across a shift is a system that produces variable output.
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Particle control without full classification
Many manufacturing areas need controlled particulate levels without carrying a full GMP cleanroom. Filtration coverage, air-change rate and entry arrangement are sized to the actual requirement rather than to the nearest ISO class.
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Process heat and equipment cooling
Process equipment can dominate the load and does not follow occupancy. It is calculated separately and often served separately, so that the comfort system is not sized around a machine.
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Electrostatic and humidity requirements
Electronics assembly usually carries a lower humidity bound for corrosion and an upper one for ESD. Both are a mechanical requirement, and both need measuring at the bench rather than at the return.
Spaces
What we are asked to build
- Clean assembly and sub-assembly areas
- Electronics and PCB manufacturing
- Temperature and humidity controlled process rooms
- Metrology and inspection rooms
- Equipment and process cooling
- General plant ventilation and exhaust
Standards
What governs the work here
- ISO 14644-1
- Cleanroom classification by airborne particle count
- ASHRAE
- Design and installation practice for heating, ventilation and air conditioning.
- ISHRAE
- Design and installation practice for heating, ventilation and air conditioning.
Services
What we deliver for precision manufacturing
Usually more than one of these on a single project, which is the reason they are delivered under one contract rather than tendered separately.
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HVAC Design & Heat Load Calculations
Air-conditioning and ventilation systems sized from a calculated load rather than from a catalogue, through to equipment selection and duct design.
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Turnkey Cleanrooms
Modular cleanroom enclosures, HEPA filtration and pressure zoning built as one package, from partitions and ceilings to the airlocks that hold the cascade.
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Testing & Qualification
The measurements that prove a room performs: HEPA integrity, velocity, air changes, differential pressure and the IQ/OQ/PQ documentation behind them.
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AMC & Energy Retrofit
Maintenance built to keep a room in its qualified state, plus audits and retrofit work on systems that are running but no longer performing.
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