Cleanroom design is all about the intelligent use of space and rooms. We always try to make our cleanrooms as small as possible to save costs and energy.

For controlled injection moulding, we use laminar flow enclosures (attachments) that are adapted to the size of the machine. When automated handling is added, robots and conveyors are also enclosed to keep components contamination-free throughout the process.

From a cleanroom perspective, 5-axis robots are the best choice for cleanroom automation because they take up much less space than, for example, linear handling systems. Although these are cheaper and simpler, they usually require a very large and high machine enclosure.

In addition to the much more efficient cleanroom integration, the 5-axis robots can also move in all directions, for example, placing freshly moulded plastic parts on a conveyor belt, performing quality checks and detecting and sorting out faulty parts.

If a clean room is required for several injection moulding machines with a handling system, we usually recommend - depending on the application - that each injection moulding machine be housed separately and independently of each other, and transported via a conveyor belt to a shared clean room. This not only saves space and costs, but also increases flexibility.