Innovativ und weltweit einzigartig
The department of Reinst and micro production Fraunhofer of the IPA prepares on the challenges of the future is before still the building a building site. Like islands the hermetically locked areas work. Some of them are brand-new furnished, increased or converted. Fraunhofer IPA sets world-wide new yardsticks with his structural alteration measures for its department of Reinst and micro production in things pure area. In full swing stand for leaders, that bore craftsmen, flexen and install still. Nevertheless already everything looks amazingly cleanly and cleared up. Directly a group of visitors is to be led by the premises. The craftsmen put on last hand. They stick foils on the ground before the entrances of those areas, which can be visited. These are to ensure that as little dust is in-carried as possible by the road shoes. The expected visitors want itself a picture of the extension� and modernization of the Reinst and micro production Fraunhofer of the institute production engineering and automation (IPA) make. The location of the IPA is on the area of the institute center in Stuttgart Vaihingen. Since at the beginning of of 2009 the building with its already existing pure, grey and administration rooms was reconditioned and increased. But on a side and a floor was cultivated was set drauf. Altogether so 3000 square meters developed, which can to be used and area for trend-setting projects create. Are new the BioSafety laboratory, Photovoltaik automation a test center as well as a Ultrapr�zisionsreinigugslabor of the ISO class 1st additional a pure regional development laboratory of the ISO class 6 developed. Altogether the pure areas are already used. They accommodate smaller material locks, a demo range, which demonstrates the borehole cleaning by carbon dioxide. During the construction unit cleaning by means of supercritical CO2 it concerns to Gommel always difficult cleaning stories , thus. In the upper floors conference rooms and offices are to be found apart from further laboratories and technical school ranges. In addition there is now a laminar heavy load pure area, which might be world-wide singular. It measures 100 square meters of surface. The entrance is six meters wide and seven meters high. An enormous roll gate makes the unhindered entrance possible of large loads with a weight up to six tons per square meter. Since the air pressure is larger inside than outside, no polluting particles can arrive into the pure area. Besides a grey area functions between them as a kind air-lock. In the internal area the devices are first cleaned, derived by means of air incident flow from above and withdrawal system the solved particles into the double bottom. Beside scanning electron microscopes, Ramanspektrometern and further, highly specialized devices, also several optical particle counters, under it also portable devices, belong to the mechanism. To be worked must here with protective clothing. Who wants to take up with the coworkers inside contact, can do this over a telephone installed in the Glaswand. In it complete production plants can be examined, optimized and qualified purity-fairly, approximately from the Photovoltaik or the flat screen production, or also the ESA as well as NASA. Since March 2010 it stands for research and industrial orders for order � despite building site, engineers, physicist, biologist and other scientist, who work in the department of Fraunhofer IPA, already makes it possible: At present a haulage system of an Asian manufacturer is examined for abrasion and particle emission behavior. A floor slab system becomes additional gesture-constantly within the rear range. That is everyday life in the IPA � the customers comes from all parts of the earth, in order to profit from the know-how of the specialists working here and the unique pure space conditions here the available and the newest technology. Also energetically the pure areas are now equipped with newest technology: The ventilation saves energy up to 70 per cent. With their the air category of purity ISO class 1 is over-bid tenfold. Besides for the pure areas material innovations were used, which are optimized concerning particle abrasion, degassing behavior and their electrostatic characteristics. The ambitious project was planned for the comprehensive renovation and extension already for approximately three years: So we had sufficient time, equal us also with the momentarily most modern and innovativsten technology to equip , say department managers Gommel. Finally we want to take not kleckern, but must technological outrider positions. Gommel is a diploma physicist from passion. At present it sits as a representative of Germany in the Technical Committee, which concerns itself with the advancement and/or the extension of the classification of the ISO standard. Since 1996 is it with the Fraunhofer IPA also and for the far field of the clean-room technology actively. Since 2008 it leads the department of Reinst and Mikroproduktion.Seit their establishment in the year 1984 until today these more than 60 patents announced as well as over 18000 projects for approximately 750 customers from 30 industries realized. Those employed scientists here examine and research within the ranges system development and - optimization, flow of material and logistics in the pure area, particle measuring technique and new pure space and progressing concepts and are active for customers from the semiconductor industry, the Photovoltaikindustrie, Life Science, micro-system technology as well as air and space travel. Besides in the past ten years about 700 products were certified as for instance plants, devices or components by the Frauenhofer IPA. By the farsighted modernization and extension Fraunhofer IPA for the requirements of the future has himself prepared and offers now already by innovative technology optimum results in things investigation and certification of clean-spacesuited plants and products exactly the same as in their research and advancement. On 7 July 2011 the new premises with a ceremony are officially opened.
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