Imagine the scenario: it’s a Saturday morning, you’re flat on your back staring up grimly at the underside of your car chassis. Various components are scattered around as you wrestle to loosen with some rusted widget that’s all that stands between you and success. With an exasperated jerk on the widget, your trusty old […]
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Aug
Aug
When it comes to automobiles, we all have our favorites. A convertible with the top down is the only way to travel the California coast or the switchbacks on Maui’s Road to Hana. Electric hybrids are perfect for those around town trips when you’re never too far from a charging station. Gas-guzzling SUVs do double […]
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Aug
Aug
Since the earliest recorded times, as humans we have sought ways to change our perception of reality. From our distant ancestors’ use of psychoactive plants and opium during the Stone Age (accounts of which later surfaced in the Neolithic era) to the use of alcohol in the eastern Mediterranean and in Mesopotamia during the 4th […]
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Jul
Jul
Last week, in tracing the rise of the robot in the cleanroom, we looked back in time to the roots of automation in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century’s ‘Second Industrial Revolution.’ And it got us thinking. What could be the future of robots in the cleanroom? In controlled environments? In our everyday lives? Could they […]
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Jul
Jul
Our technological environment is a rapidly developing, always diversifying arena in which the only constants are growth and change. And this is nothing new. Although we consider our technological advances as being relatively recent – viz the growth of Silicon Valley and our entry into the Information Age – American history is replete with examples […]
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Jun
Jun
In the contamination-control industry, we all understand the importance of and difference in ISO classes. These global standards were devised and adopted when the U.S. General Service Administrations standards – then known as FS209E – were no longer adequate in categorizing the growing specifications in cleanroom technology. From the original six classes of the FS209E, […]
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Jun
Jun
Lynn Stanard, Senior Quality Manager, was a recipient of the 2016 Exceptional Woman Contributor Award by Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology. The award citation reads: To Lynn Stanard, for her 25 years of active participation and leadership in IEST Working Groups. Her expert knowledge of cleanroom consumables has been fundamental to the development of […]
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Jun
Jun
Berkshire Corporation is offering free copies of Wiping Surfaces Clean. Supplies are limited and once they are gone this free promotion will end. Offer only available in the US, Canada and Latin America. Find out: Why wipe? How to wipe? What kind of cloths to use? For what applications? See why this is an important […]
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Jun
Jun
As with much of life, perfecting the implementation of a technique is a matter of trial and error. From the correct perspective, and, in finding a solution to a problem, the error is prevented from recurring. In this light, mistakes are simply opportunities disguised as problems and they allow for continual improvement. And in one […]
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Jun
Jun
Way back in the murky distant mists of time, a trip to your primary care physician might include him listening to your heart, giving you a quick tap on knees to test reflexes, a guffaw about your three martini lunch, and a lungful of second hand smoke from the cigarette burning down in a glass […]
