Squeaky cleanroom robots

There are a lot of hoops that a robot has to jump through before it can be clas­si­fied as a clean­room robot. These robots have to be able to run in a ​“clean” man­ner, as well as not kick up any sta­t­ic elec­tric­i­ty that could neg­a­tive­ly affect the prod­uct being manufactured.

Clean­room robots are used in labs, but they are also becom­ing com­mon in the elec­tron­ics field. As tech­nol­o­gy gets small­er and small­er, so do the parts. And as these parts become more del­i­cate, it makes more sense for man­u­fac­tur­ers to switch to the gen­tle grip­per of a clean­room robot, as opposed to the hand of a man­u­al application.

But, what does it take to be a clean­room robot in the elec­tron­ics indus­try? Well, the first thing is that you have to run clean. For a clean­room robot­ic sys­tem to run clean, it first has to be designed with dust-free robot­ic parts, belts, etc. that do not emit a lot of dust and oth­er par­ti­cles dur­ing oper­a­tion. And it must have inter­nal vac­u­ums that whisk away all the par­ti­cles that are still emit­ted by the machine.

When man­u­fac­tur­ing these sen­si­tive micro­elec­tron­ics, man­u­fac­tur­ers can­not be too care­ful. Even the coat­ing on the clean­room robot has to be spe­cial­ized to not attract con­t­a­m­i­nants. Any con­t­a­m­i­na­tion of the prod­uct could cost the com­pa­ny mon­ey and down­time as pro­duc­tion shuts down to inves­ti­gate the con­t­a­m­i­na­tion source.

Anoth­er issue that clean­room robot­ic sys­tems must face is the pos­si­bil­i­ty of elec­tro­sta­t­ic dis­charge. The robots must be spe­cial­ly sealed and ground­ed to pre­vent the buildup of sta­t­ic elec­tric­i­ty dur­ing oper­a­tion. The robots also have to be made with spe­cial mate­ri­als that are non­con­duc­tive to an elec­tro­sta­t­ic charge. These charges can ruin com­put­er parts, cell­phone parts and oth­er electronics.

If your com­pa­ny is in the mar­ket to update your clean­room with the lat­est in clean­room robot­ic inno­va­tions, you should con­sid­er Robots​.com. Our com­pa­ny pro­vides solu­tions from Fanuc, Motoman, ABB, Uni­ver­sal Robots, and KUKA clean­room robot­ics. The staff at Robots​.com will help cus­tomers design the per­fect sys­tem spe­cial­ized for their clean­room specifications.

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