In controlled environments like cleanrooms, maintaining air quality is essential for product safety and compliance with industry standards. ISO 14698 provides guidelines for controlling and monitoring airborne contamination in these sensitive spaces. To meet these guidelines, organizations must establish a sampling plan defining specific parameters for air monitoring. The AIRWEL Plus air sampler offers an advanced solution for automating and enhancing air sampling, ensuring accuracy and traceability in controlled environments.
ISO 14698 mandates that air monitoring in controlled spaces follows a detailed sampling plan. Key elements include:
◈ Sampling Locations: Defined zones within the environment where air samples should be collected.
◈ Sample Volume: The amount of air to sample at each location.
◈ Target Contaminants: The types of contaminants being monitored.
◈ Sampling Frequency: How often samples should be collected to maintain consistent air quality.
The AIRWEL Plus air sampler simplifies complex sampling plans, allowing users to program multiple sampling locations with specific sample volumes. This automation minimizes human error, maintaining sampling accuracy and consistency according to the sampling plan.
◈ Location Programming: AIRWEL Plus allows pre-programming of sampling sites to ensure that air samples are collected from correct locations with defined parameters.
◈ Volume Specification: Users can specify air volume for each location, allowing AIRWEL Plus to automatically adjust to meet sampling plan requirements.
To increase the reliability of the sampling process, AIRWEL Plus includes a user management feature, enabling individual user profiles. This feature enhances traceability, recording the user, location, and timing of each sample collection. Such traceability is crucial in cleanrooms, where accountability and compliance with standards are essential.
AIRWEL Plus includes barcode integration to ensure the correct sampling program is run at the correct location. Barcodes can be affixed to specific locations within the cleanroom, ensuring that the correct code is scanned before sampling begins. This level of security further strengthens the integrity of the air monitoring process.
◈ Program Verification: Scanning a barcode associated with the sampling site guarantees that the correct program is launched.
◈ Error Minimization: Incorrect program selection is avoided.
◈ Linked Sample ID: Users can also scan the sample barcode to assign a unique ID, providing complete traceability for each air sample.
The AIRWEL Plus air sampler provides a comprehensive solution for automated air sampling in compliance with ISO 14698. With programmable sampling locations, precise volume control, enhanced traceability, and barcode-secured sampling, AIRWEL Plus enables organizations to maintain rigorous air quality control in their cleanrooms. This integration of features into a single device brings flexibility and precision to air sampling, supporting cleanroom environments to the highest standards.
