ISO/TC 209 Launches New Cleanroom Standards and Outreach Projects

摘要

The October 2017 ISO Technical Committee (TC) 209 meeting held in Sydney Australia centered on creating a coordinated approach for the standards within the committee’s work program of Cleanrooms and associated controlled environments. The approach is well needed as ISO/TC 209 introduces two projects-a New Work Item Proposal (NWIP) ISO 14644-17 on particle deposition rates and a Preliminary Work Item (PWI) on the assessment of the suitability of consumables in cleanrooms.rnAdding to the intensity of ISO/TC 209’s workload are not only new projects, but mandatory ISO Systematic Reviews of published standards at five-year points in the standard’s lifecycle. When the hallmark cleanroom standard ISO 14644-1: Classification of air cleanliness was proposed in 1993, ISO/TC 209 leadership estimated the work would only encompass ten standards. In 2018, the Secretariat anticipates having 20 documents within the ISO work program, with more than half in development or review. The current work program for ISO/TC 209 is shown in Table 1.