A cleanroom is a controlled environment where pollutants like dust, airborne microbes, and aerosol particles are filtered out in order to provide the cleanest area possible. Most cleanrooms are used for manufacturing products such as electronics, pharmaceutical products, and medical equipment.
Contaminants are generated by people, process, facilities and equipment. They must be
continually removed from the air. The level to which these particles need to be removed
depends upon the standards required. The only way to control contamination is to control the total environment. Air flow rates and direction, pressurization, temperature, humidity and specialized filtration all need to be tightly controlled. And the sources of these particles need to controlled or eliminated
whenever possible. There is more to a clean room than air filters. Cleanrooms are planned
and manufactured using strict protocol and methods. They are frequently found in
electronics, pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, medical device industries and other critical
manufacturing environments.