Category Archives: Blue Thunder General Topics

Cleanroom Face Masks and How to Wear One

A cleanroom environment is extremely sensitive to contamination regardless of the precautions taken to ensure[...]

Cleanroom vs. Controlled Environment

Often cleanroom and controlled environment designations are used interchangeably to refer to the necessary environment[...]

Soldering and De-soldering Process for PCBs

Soldering is a process that joins together two or more items (usually metal) by melting,[...]

Contamination Control in Pharmaceutical Cleanrooms

Contamination control in pharmaceutical clean rooms is driven by various technologies and disciplines like engineering[...]

Controlling ESD in Electronics Manufacturing

Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) are an ongoing challenge in the manufacturing of electronics. By focusing on[...]

Cleanroom Validation – Basic Principles

Cleanrooms are expensive to build and maintain because they must be customized to produce a[...]

Personnel Grounding – Basic ESD Control Principles

Personnel working with sensitive electronic products must be protected against producing and receiving electrostatic discharge[...]

503B Pharmacy vs 503A Pharmacy – Compounding Pharmacies

In 2012, 64 deaths and 751 injured patients resulted from a contaminated medication from the[...]

The Importance of an ESD Workstation

Electro-Static Discharge (ESD) protection is crucial to the various phases and tasks of electronics production.[...]