Just How Clean is a Fanuc Cleanroom Robot?

Clean­room robots were devel­oped to work in envi­ron­ments that had to be con­trolled and cleaned to ensure only a cer­tain lev­el of par­ti­cles could be in the air at any time. Fanuc had devel­oped an entire line of clean­room robots with dif­fer­ent reach­es and pay­load capa­bil­i­ties to fit almost any appli­ca­tion a lab or oth­er clean­room facil­i­ty may want to throw at it. But, how clean is clean for a Fanuc clean­room robot­ic system?

Accord­ing to Robot­ics.org, clean­li­ness class­es for clean­room robots are 1 to 100,000 are a scale that mea­sures the par­ti­cle count per cubic foot, equiv­a­lent to the cleanroom’s vol­ume. A clean­room 1 robot can be in an envi­ron­ment where there is no more than one 0.5 micron par­ti­cle per cubic foot, a clean­room 100 robot can be in an envi­ron­ment with 100 size 0.5 microns per cubic foot, and so on.

Fanuc clean­room robot­ic sys­tems are made with spe­cial belts, coat­ing and parts so that they do not fling par­ti­cles into the air and con­t­a­m­i­nate the air past the respec­tive lev­els nec­es­sary to keep the clean­room as clean as it needs to be to com­plete its task. Elec­tron­ics that cre­ate LCDs, disk dri­ve assem­blies and oth­er hard­ware find clean­room robots nec­es­sary to ensure that their parts and put togeth­er with as lit­tle con­t­a­m­i­na­tion as possible.

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