Pre-engineered VIX concept

Our cleanrooms are pre-engineered as a system and regardless of location, they are replicated with the same durability, reliability and ease of maintenance through its standardized building blocks. Choosing a modular & pre-engineered engineering approach delivers predictable and repeatable solutions with ultimate upgradability for the client’s changing cleanroom business. This sustainable cleanroom solution is a welcome alternative for traditional cleanroom concepts. It increases ROI in terms of revenue, insights and efficiency.

Embedded intelligence reducing project risk

Today’s cleanroom concepts have evolved towards a modular design approach in order to meet rapidly changing needs in cleanroom technology business. If your business requires a classified space, we hold on to modularity and pre-engineering. Our patented VIX concept (nr. 2820356) delivers modular building blocks with a fixed and strong structure.

When designing and building a cleanroom, ABN acts Lego-wise: we start from scratch and start building with our pre-defined and approved building blocks creating high quality cleanroom solutions at short notice. Pre-engineered building blocks contain all the intelligence needed for optimal cleanroom design.

"The VIX concept aims at 100% reliability. This means zero failures and no unplanned downtime for cleanrooms engineered based on this concept."

- Mario Stassen, project engineer at ABN Cleanroom

VIX: A modern service-oriented architecture

Our scalable, flexible VIX platform gives a wide choice when it comes to future driven design. The cornerstone of this vision is building the next generation cleanrooms in a disruptive way.

The VIX cleanroom concept is a fully flexible and modular integrated, scalable technology on modern state of the art standardized futureproof components. It stands for 100 % reliability through redundancy embedded in the pre-engineered design process.

Our vision consists of the following determining elements:

Modularization

Modularization is also called Legolisation. We create a set of modular units with standard sizes and shapes. This brings Lego bricks to mind. We use a standard structure which allows the interchange of compatible parts to alter functionally without changing the majority of the VIX concept. Modularization is a strong concept that not only explains the architecture of VIX components but also the organization and processes for designing and producing them.

Interchangeability

Interchangeability simplifies our assembly process. The outcome of this is reducing complexity. Interchangeability on the other hand simplifies the repair so we can reduce any unplanned downtime as much as possible. It goes without saying that modularization and interchangeability go hand in hand for reliability approach.

Design for Reliability

It is our vision that maintainability starts with Design for Reliability. Design for Reliability is an embedded process in our pre-engineered VIX concept which begins from the very early stages of the design and should be integrated into every stage of this process.

As a result of this process, reliability is designed by using the best available science-based methods like: Failure Mode, Effects & Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Failure modes, Effects and Diagnostic analysis (FMEDA), Reliability Block Diagram (RBD), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Event Tree Analysis (ETA).

Design for Maintainability

Design for Maintainability emphasizes the importance of timely integration of design and construction knowledge with Operations and Maintenance (O&M) experiences into project designs at an early stage. Implementing Design for Maintainability decreases the risk of equipment reliability and uptime being impacted and total life-cycle costs increases significantly.

Smart Maintenance

We pre-engineered specific maintenance strategies for every VIX Cleanroom like predictive maintenance and prescriptive maintenance. The exploding phenomenon of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) provides many opportunities for cleanrooms to manage the maintenance of machines in a new Digital Prescriptive way.

Digital Prescriptive Maintenance demands a more proactive approach, using data to predict future events and diagnosing potential problems before they occur. With Digital Prescriptive Maintenance, our algorithms will predict potential failures and autonomously trigger maintenance—all with minimal human intervention.

VIX features

Upgradable

The performance of VIX cleanrooms (patent nr. 2820356) can be easily upgraded and modified towards your changing cleanroom business.

99.9% uptime

VIX is characterized by its decentral air systems. These air units are installed in the airtight plenum above the cleanroom and guarantee a 99,9% uptime.

Lowest life cycle cost

The patented VIX concept is an energy efficient decentral air circulation concept focusing on the lowest total cost of ownership and OPEX business models.

Circular

The patented VIX concept holds on to circularity. The focus of circular design is on keeping products and materials circulating in closed loops.

Industrial Design

Your future cleanroom is a critical asset, it is not just another construction project. The cleanroom surrounds critical manufacturing processes for which VIX is ideal.

Go as you grow

Let your business evolve rapidly with VIX. Today, you might need a small dimensioned cleanroom, next week it must be enlarged due to increasing business.

6 elements of circular design in cleanroom technology

Cleanroom products weren’t designed to last, product users weren’t asked to think about lifecycles and traditional design has often not considered the impact of the product not being in use anymore. Up until we started focussing on a circular design economy. Minimizing the primary raw materials use is quite a challenge for a generation of cleanrooms in a circular design era. The focus of circular design is on keeping products and materials circulating in closed loops.

Circular design in cleanroom technology gives one the opportunity to consider several design strategies: durability, standardization, compatibility, maintainability, upgradability and dis- & reassembly.

Design for durability

The durability design specification is expressed in terms of ‘strength’. In other words, products that are physically durable.

Design for standardization

This design specification offers many reuse opportunities in pre-engineered cleanroom design. Standardized building blocks enable the concept of legolization to be implemented.

Design for compatibility

The compatibility aspect focuses on multifunctional interfaces with open communication protocols to have your cleanroom Industry 4.0 ready.

Design for maintainability

The ease of maintenance and repair to keep a product in working condition and extend its end-of-life starts at the design phase of a cleanroom.

Design for upgradability

This design specification aims at maintaining product usability by upgrading its performance and modifying it towards the growing needs of the end-user.

Design for dis- and reassembly

In some cases, upgradability might not be sufficient. This final design strategy allows cleanroom parts to be easily disassembled and reassembled at the end-of-life, creating a big impact on material use.

Cleanrooms with brains through data acquisition

The purpose of data acquisition in our VIX concept (Patent Nr. 2820356) is to perform measurements and to compare them to historical trends, baseline data or representative data for the same or similar VIX cleanrooms. Managing the procedure for condition monitoring data collection is executed online by having the measurements performed in a planned acquisition sequence

If the measured values are acceptable compared to the alert/alarm criteria, it might not be necessary to take any action other than to record the values and to continue to monitor them. If the measured values are not acceptable compared to the alert/alarm criteria, then the diagnosis process should be initiated. Sometimes, it can be the case that no anomalies are suspected or detected, but diagnosis and prognosis is still carried out because of a requirement for the VIX health assessment decision.

The diagnosis process is triggered by anomaly detection. This detection is carried out by comparing the present descriptors of the VIX cleanroom or descriptors chosen from experience, specifications, commissioning tests, or computed from statistical data. The fault diagnosis procedure of the VIX concept is in accordance with ISO 13379-1.

Solid project management

Our V-model approach according to EN15643 considers the Design Qualification, Installation Qualification and Operational Qualification of your cleanroom to ensure smooth production start-up. Solid project management according to this model does not only lead to efficient project execution but also to efficient cleanroom use without overlooking its demolition phase.

Initiation
Design
Equipment & contractor supply
Construction
Use
End-of-life

Completely integrated

Our patented VIX concept (nr. 2820356) holds on to a pre-engineered approach of the energy and technical installations of each cleanroom in order to optimize the usable space, minimize energy costs and reduce the duration of the construction work. It enhances your production process and prevents conflicts between systems such as chillers, boilers & heatpumps, steam installations, heat exchangers, electrical panels, regulation panels, control systems and fire detection.

Moreover, all systems, ceilings and walls are A2s1d0 (EN 13501-1) compliant and FM approved (FM4880 & FM4882).

ABN Cleanroom features

Expertise

Founded in 1996, ABN Cleanroom Technology has many years of experience in wide-ranging industries. Our R&D team and innovation driven culture help us stay ahead in
pre-engineered & circular cleanroom design.

DBFM

With a Design - Build - Finance - Maintenance approach, our services range way further than only building a cleanroom. Our OPEX finance model allows us to offer you a cleanroom-as-a-service all-in model.

Circular design approach

In a focus shift from a linear 'take-make-dispose model' to a circular model, pre-engineered and modular concepts are the key to success. Circular thinking involves the reuse of materials, but also of data and knowledge.

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Leading the way in pre-engineerd cleanroom solutions

ABN Cleanroom Technology makes cleanroom technology affordable by minimizing the hidden costs of ownership through our modular, pre-engineered and energy saving VIX concept. Creating digital twins of your classified space, a circular design approach as well as failure risk analyses for a reliability boost in your cleanroom result in a new standard for pre-engineered cleanroom solutions.

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Pre-engineered VIX concept

Embedded intelligence reducing project risk

"The VIX concept aims at 100% reliability. This means zero failures and no unplanned downtime for cleanrooms engineered based on this concept."

VIX: A modern service-oriented architecture