TConnolly
Lifetime Supporting Member
We are a lean manufacturing company. We set up assembly cells in our clean rooms where we will configure a line of portable equipment to assemble a product. That line may be reconfigured a few months later to make something else. The flexible lines usually only have small machine tools, many of them are 120V. Often the line is reconfigured by the operators themselves. So we find ourselves in the situation where we have temporary wiring in what would be called a permanent use, with cords running down the line, sometimes on the floor between back to back lines to sources at the wall of the clean room, or stations plugged into power strips that are plugged into extension cords to the clean room wall.
Since its a clean room we can't undertake heavy construction just to reconfigure a cell.
I've been told there are wiring skids for flexible manufacturing cells to solve the code compliance problem, but I can't seem to locate any other information about them. I'd love to find something like movable racks, maybe on wheels, with outlets and/or disconnects and possibly even its own breakers that connect to a single point.
What solutions do you use for similar situations if any?
Since its a clean room we can't undertake heavy construction just to reconfigure a cell.
I've been told there are wiring skids for flexible manufacturing cells to solve the code compliance problem, but I can't seem to locate any other information about them. I'd love to find something like movable racks, maybe on wheels, with outlets and/or disconnects and possibly even its own breakers that connect to a single point.
What solutions do you use for similar situations if any?
