TOX PRESSOTECHNIK's servo presses have achieved air purity class 5 (ISO Class 5), in accordance with ISO 14644.
This enables the drives company to provide its customers with components suitable for cleanrooms.
Presses are machines that deform/shape a workpiece under high pressure. A servo press is a press machine that uses a servomotor as the drive source, in applications where hydraulic presses are normally used.
In sensitive industries such as medical engineering, the optical industry, or electronics, cleanroom-suitable components are necessary for all processes. This also includes drives.
The UK-based company is a specialist in press drive systems, sheet metal joining, and assembly equipment.
What is cleanroom suitability?
Those working in cleanrooms must under no circumstances permit any contaminations in the end product.
The system operators must meet the high quality demands of their customers, and comply with the tightened cleanroom conditions on the part of legislators.
The drive specialist only needed to make minimal changes to the servo press for this contamination control purpose
To meet these requirements, they also demand a certified cleanroom suitability with regard to the components used in their systems.
This is mandatory for typical applications in medical engineering, the pharmaceutical and optical industry as well as electronics and semiconductor technology. But industries such as renewable energies or aerospace also need this certification with regard to cleanliness suitability.
TOX is meeting this challenge and is adjusting its servo drives ElectricDrive Core accordingly.
Examined and certified
The drive specialist only needed to make minimal changes to the servo press for this contamination control purpose.
In the next step, TOX commissioned the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (IPA) in Stuttgart for the inspection.
The result is that the ElectricDrive Core drive corresponds to air purity class 5 in accordance with ISO 14644-1.
With this cleanroom certification, we have reached a milestone, which opens new doors for us to applications that require the highest cleanroom conditions.
Marco Nimz, Product Manager at TOX, said: "With this cleanroom certification, we have reached a milestone, which opens new doors for us to applications that require the highest cleanroom conditions."
What does this mean for users? The servo drives of the ElectricDrive Core product range can be used for production environments in the cleanroom.
Precisely adjustable forces
The electromechanical servo press TOX-ElectricDrive Core is very versatile for users – pressing, joining, testing, compressing, assembling, attaching and many more are possible.
The system is a combination of controller, software and drive. Thanks to integrated process monitoring and sensors, users always have full control of the pressing process and quality of their product.
Customers no longer need to programme the drive themselves before commissioning, but only need to parameterize it
They can even reconstruct the force with which a component was pressed years later. Speaking of force – this is constant and precisely adjustable for the ElectricDrive system.
Another bonus is that customers no longer need to programme the drive themselves before commissioning, but only need to parameterise it. TOX can already predefine the programmes for the plug-and-play-capable system at the factory.
