Minienvironment

Advantages

As the name suggests, the size of a minienvironment is a decisive advantage in terms of saving costs and resources. The technical and energetic effort is significantly reduced as compared to a conventional cleanroom. As a matter of fact, an individual minienvironment solution by COLANDIS offers many more advantages for your process:

• Air cleanliness class ISO 1 (in accordance with DIN EN ISO 14644-1) can be achieved
• Minimum installation area limited to the actual need for a clean environment
• Optimised flow concept (laminar flow possible)
• Safe control of cleanliness in the process through encapsulation and separation of the process from the human contamination source
• Specific adaptation of the climatic conditions for each individual process step
• Integrated monitoring of climate data and all clean air parameters possible
• Simplification of the construction and approval of the production environment by eliminating the cleanroom in the hall, as this is integrated into the machine and not part of the building
• Reduction of the air volumes required to comply with the cleanliness classes by reducing the volume to be protected
• Investment costs, running costs and delivery times for the machine enclosure are significantly lower than for a cleanroom
• Reduction in maintenance costs
• Savings in production by eliminating the need for employees to change their changing rooms and training employees

Functionality

Minienvironments offer the possibility of fully shielding a single process and thus excluding external environmental influences. An individual enclosure for the area to be protected or the process plant is developed in a first step.. In a second step, conditioned clean air flows through it vertically or horizontally via an optimised arrangement of specially developed fan-filter-modules. This way, we ensure a clean environment up to an air cleanliness class of ISO class 1 (in accordance with DIN EN ISO 14644-1), specially tailored to the process and independent of the prevailing cleanliness conditions in your production hall.

Further information

COLANDIS GmbH's Minienvironment is a customised solution for transforming any process into a clean environment. We would be glad to advise you in the field of cleanroom technology and the possibilities of achieving your goals with appropriate measures.

Further details regarding our Minienvironments can also be found in our blog post ‘Minienvironment as local purity solution’

Best solution for your process

The actually required cleanliness standard and the scope of the associated measures in production results from a detailed review of the process chain and the product to be manufactured. Different requirements and needs of the process section and also of the previous and following process steps are considered. In close cooperation with trained staff, we develop a concept with you which perfectly implements the cleanliness requirements of your process.

Applications

If a cleanroom is considered for a manufacturing process, it is always worth thinking about the alternative of a minienvironment solution. In many areas of the semiconductor industry, unique concepts have already been implemented in this way, which optimally utilise the advantages compared to a cleanroom. By adapting this local cleanroom environment, specific requirements can be realised faster and more precisely, especially with regard to the effect on the product itself.

• As single workstations or
• Enclosures of machinery and equipment