Cleanroom planning is all about the intelligent use of space and rooms. We always try to design our cleanrooms to be as small as possible in order to save costs and energy.
For controlled injection molding, we use laminar flow enclosures (attachments) that are adapted to the machine size. If automated handling is added, robots and conveyor belts are also enclosed so that the components remain contamination-free throughout the entire process.
From a cleanroom perspective, 5-axis robots are the best choice for cleanroom automation, as they require significantly less space than linear handling systems, for example. Although these are cheaper and simpler, they usually require a very large and high machine enclosure.
In addition to the much more efficient clean room integration, the 5-axis robots also move in all directions and, for example, place freshly injection-moulded plastic parts on a conveyor belt, carry out quality checks and detect and sort out faulty parts.
If a Cleanroom is required for several injection molding machines with a handling system, we usually recommend – depending on the application – housing each SGM machine separately and independently of each other and conveying them to a common Cleanroom via a conveyor belt. This not only saves space and costs, but also increases flexibility.
