Cleaner production along a short distance
A shorter distance equals less contamination, says GEMÜ, which uses a specially developed robot to pick plastic components directly off the mould and places them in sterile wrappers
The demands made on manufacturers by medical engineering are growing steadily and require products with ever-increasing levels of cleanliness.
Most companies tend to produce from the grey room to the cleanroom, but the relatively long distances between the two constitute an avoidable risk factor. Cleanroom production of plastic parts requires new ideas for manufacturing with a lower risk of contamination. The current status of cleanroom engineering involves the production from the grey room to the actual cleanroom. This method carries hazards that are seen as critical in an FMEA analysis because the distance from the grey room to the actual cleanroom constitutes a contamination risk.
Cleaner production GEMÜ's new cleanroom concept enables the company to offer cleaner facilities. It is now in a position to manufacture under the most critical of cleanroom conditions items such as plastic parts used for autologous chondrocyte implantations. A specially developed docking system releases the plastic granulate at the very last moment, i.e. at the material homogenising and plasticising point. Professional island solutions are guaranteed by special Flow Box Systems. System solutions in plastic for medicine and industry, process-driven from the concept stage to final production, are also offered.