NOT EVERY process needs a conventional cleanroom. Isopod Equipment Enclosures are a specialist range of rapid controlled environments designed specifically to create a clean, contained zone around machinery, production equipment and critical processes.
Using the proven Isopod modular platform, each enclosure can be configured around the size, shape and operating requirements of the equipment it protects – providing a fast, flexible alternative to constructing an entire cleanroom around a single process.
From Precision Manufacturing and Plastics Processing to Electronics and Automotive applications, through to Life Sciences and Advanced Engineering, Isopod Equipment Enclosures help organisations introduce effective contamination control precisely where it is needed.
Equipment Enclosures Protect the process
Installing sensitive equipment inside an existing production environment can create a challenge: the process requires cleaner conditions, but upgrading the entire host room may be unnecessary, disruptive or prohibitively expensive.
An Isopod Equipment Enclosure creates a dedicated controlled environment around the equipment itself, allowing businesses to target contamination control at the critical point of production.
Softwall PVC strip curtains provide easy operator and material access, while overhead filtration delivers clean air directly into the enclosed process area.
The result is a highly adaptable solution that can help isolate sensitive equipment from the surrounding environment without the footprint and infrastructure associated with a traditional cleanroom.
Equipment Enclosures Engineered around your machinery
Equipment doesn’t always fit neatly inside standard cleanroom dimensions – so the enclosure shouldn’t be standard either.
Isopod Equipment Enclosures can be designed around existing machinery, workstations and production lines, with configurations developed to accommodate equipment access, maintenance requirements and operator workflow.
The solution tends to feature some or all of the following elements:
- GT Strip Max Softwall PVC strip curtains
- Stainless steel structural frameworks
- HEPA Fan Filter Units
- Integrated GT Lux LED cleanroom lighting
- Bespoke heights and footprints
- Machinery access openings
- Operator work zones
- Equipment and utility penetrations
- Guardware furniture and storage
- Environmental Monitoring Systems
Isopods are specifically positioned as a fast, flexible and cost-effective cleanroom system, with standardised construction that can also be adapted for bespoke applications.
Equipment Enclosures Fast, flexible and future ready
Because Isopod Equipment Enclosures use a modular cleanroom system, they offer considerably greater flexibility than permanently constructed controlled environments.
They can be installed within existing factories, laboratories and production areas, adapted around unusual host-room restrictions and modified as processes evolve.
This makes the range particularly suitable for:
- New equipment installations
- Production line upgrades
- Pilot manufacturing
- R&D equipment
- Sensitive assembly processes
- Injection moulding and plastics processing
- Inspection and metrology
- Electronics manufacturing
- Temporary production requirements
- Processes requiring localised contamination control
Equipment Enclosures A complete equipment enclosure solution
Guardtech can support the enclosure from initial concept and layout development through manufacture, installation, commissioning and validation.
The environment can also be equipped through Guardware Cleanroom Hardware, providing furniture, storage, measuring equipment and other specialist cleanroom products as part of a coordinated installation. Guardware’s wider portfolio includes cleanroom furniture, separative devices, transfer equipment and precision monitoring instruments.
Whether you’re protecting a single machine or creating a clean production cell around several pieces of equipment, our team can develop an enclosure around your process rather than asking you to redesign your process around the cleanroom.
Equipment Enclosures Aftercare and monitoring
Your Isopod support doesn’t stop at installation. Isopod Service Plans provide scheduled servicing, preventative maintenance and ongoing technical support, with annual rolling and multi-year agreements available to help maintain performance, reliability and compliance throughout the life of your enclosure.
For routine environmental checks, ISOcount Plus handheld particle counters are also available through Guardware. Compact and easy to operate, ISOcount Plus provides real-time airborne particle measurement from 0.3 to 25.0 µm, with reporting aligned to ISO 14644-1 and other recognised standards.