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AND AFFORDABLE
WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED FROM
YOUR MAINTENANCE SOFTWARE?
How about flexibility, easy configuration and integration
into existing business systems?
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With Agility you get all these b enefits and more,
delivering value right across your organisation.
Choose Agility and you’re choosing to put yourself in control.
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Customer Driven Cleanroom
Innovation for Plastics Manufacturing
The continuous improvement strategy
towards cost-effective, lean production
comes with an explicit requirement for
innovation and scalability for today’s
manufacturing facilities.
In looking to increase their manufacturing
capability
offering
with
cleanroom
production, Tex Plastics’ Technical & Quality
Director, Andy Clarke & Manufacturing
Director Dave Kearney, found both with
Lancaster-based cleanroom solutions provider, Connect 2 Cleanrooms.
Tex Plastics’ mission to develop higher performing, lower cost solutions for its
clients, is now complemented with a class 7/8 clean room system that includes
automated clean-air HEPA-lite™ canopies, controllable by a user-friendly touch
screen interface.
The tooling challenge
When considering injection moulding processes, the tool face of the machine is
often the most exposed area of the production line and this is the area which
often requires the supply of controlled air. A simple way to achieve this is to
enclose the full machine in a cleanroom; however this brings inevitable challenges
of managing tool changes.
Encloses the machine, mould and crane creates a large environment, in floor
space and height. This approach leads to a vast amount of air being unnecessarily
processed, negatively impacting on attempts to reduce carbon emissions.
This approach also increases the risk of contamination and safety issues as the
overhead crane inevitably retains particles and cleaning it is a cumbersome and
difficult task - not to mention the hopper creating a mass of contamination within
the cleanroom.
A more cost effective and energy efficient option is to create a modular cleanroom
on castors, that can be wheeled away to provide aerial crane access. Whilst this
low-cost solution is a practical solution for many, Tex Plastics consider this solution
to create unacceptable downtime as machinery requires an extensive full clean
down following exposure to the external manufacturing environment.
This increases the risk of contamination and reducing the ability to offer a timely
response to customer schedule changes.
For more information:
Connect 2 Cleanrooms
www.connect2cleanrooms.com
01524 813020
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