A leading provider of cleanroom disinfecting services, Advanced Cleanroom Microclean Corp. has more than three decades of experience in the industry. Based in Santa Ana, California, with branch locations in Texas, Arizona, Pennsylvania, and New York, Advanced Cleanroom Microclean sets and executes protocols for construction, maintenance, and servicing of cleanrooms. Its clients do business in industries as diverse as microelectronics, automotive, food, high-tech medical, and aerospace. The experts at Advanced Cleanroom Microclean can reduce air and surface particle counts in a cleanroom by as much as 96 percent.

One of the company’s specialties, contamination mapping, enables client companies to measure viable particle counts on various surfaces of a cleanroom. Such knowledge dictates the optimum frequencies for cleaning those surfaces. Advanced Cleanroom Microclean follows the test methods identified in ISO 14644-9, the section of the Cleanrooms and Associated Environments standards that addresses classification of surface particle cleanliness. Janet Ford, founder and CEO of Advanced Cleanroom Microclean, serves on the U.S. Technical Advisory Group for ISO 14644, so she exercises an ongoing responsibility to review and update the International Organization for Standardization standards that govern cleanrooms.

Using a QIII surface particle detector, technicians with Advanced Cleanroom Microclean tested the company’s performance against that of a competitor. Employees of Advanced Cleanroom Microclean scrubbed floors, benches, doors, boot bins, laundry bin doors, glove boxes, and drinking fountains at the test site, a gowning room belonging to a semiconductor manufacturer. Particle tests 24 hours later, measuring down to 0.5 microns per square centimeter, indicated contaminants had dropped 15 percent. Such a decrease may potentially represent considerable savings or profits for a client over time.

Advanced Cleanroom Microclean can readily discuss a particle count testing program, its locations and frequency, with any prospective client company. The results can assist the design of a standard cleaning program for the customer to use at however many locations it operates. Advanced Cleanroom Microclean certifies according to ISO 14644-1 and 14644-2, as well as Federal Standard 209E.