CLEAN ROOMS | APPLICATION REPORT
R A Pelloby 3.5-ton electric overhead clean room hoist designed for use in a UK plastics factory.
it’s the robots or the semiconductor equipment, is very well engineered. It does its job perfectly without fail, and, for the most part, without human intervention.” Despite precise engineering, though, all equipment must eventually be replaced. Christensen says that in clean rooms, the production machines are typically replaced once every five to seven years. This can
FORMULA FOR SUCCESS
In 2018, a Malaysian baby formula manufacturing company came to Columbus job: Build and install a 1,000-kilogram capacity chain hoist on a trolley with less than 20 centimetres of headroom, while positioning the operator more than 60 centimetres away from the beam. And do it all with only washable and corrosion-resistant parts. Columbus McKinnon’s Chester Hoist facility designed and built a manual chain hoist with an extended hand chain wheel and stainless-steel components. The hoist also incorporated food-grade paint and lubricants that allowed for easy cleaning.
often require a hoist solution that enables engineers and technicians to access a location in the clean room they didn’t anticipate needing to access. Clean room hoist solutions are often constrained by floor space and room configuration, which demands innovative solutions. Syclone ATTCO’s products solve this problem in a creative manner.
“Our equipment is mobile,” Christensen
says. “We focus specifically on mobile equipment so the customer doesn’t need to affix the hoist to the floor; they can get the equipment into the clean room, use it as needed, and then push it out and store it. Space is at a premium in clean rooms, so the focus is on taking up the least amount of floor space as possible while maximizing reach.” A new clean room hoist design may
need to account for a variety of factors like nearby stools, handrails, floor mats, and other ergonomic devices. Given that clean room floorplans tend to vary, developing a clean room hoist often involves creating a custom base and managing lines, hoses, and wires. Christensen says that if a hoist cannot be easily stored when not in use, then it must provide some kind of other useful functionality beyond its primary purpose. Syclone ATTCO has recently seen an
R A Columbus McKinnon Chester Hoist ultra-
low-headroom manual chain hoist with extended hand chain wheel. The hoist is currently in use at a Malaysian baby formula manufacturing facility.
increase in demand for maintenance hoists as clients attempt to extend equipment lifecycles. Some of Syclone ATTCO’s clients also have new clean room builds underway that may require hoist equipment in the near future. Throughout 2021, several clients have sought to customize their Skyhook devices for clean room use, which has also prompted new equipment orders. Some of the emerging design trends in this sector involve preventing damage to equipment and harm to operators. Syclone ATTCO has developed torque limiters for clean room lifting devices that are
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