As an engineer of manufacturing processes and designer of semiconductor production facilities, my aim is maximizing efficiency without sacrificing safety. It would be fair to say, in fact, that my top priority is always safety. It is my job to ensure that I account for any possible glitch in our systems and incorporate safety functionality into plant design and manufacturing processes to reduce the risk of damage to equipment, the environment, and people – both workers in the clean room and the greater community as well.

Automatic gas cabinets have certainly made the working environment safer than it would be with entirely human operators because their rate of error is so much lower. But until I met with an account rep at Critical Systems, this increased safety often came at such a high cost that building new plants or processes to support technology often required fiscal acrobatics tantamount to red tape; each new project required a large budget and high pro-forma ROI that wasn’t helped by the high cost of new gas cabinets. Thankfully, CSI was able to help on both safety and efficiency fronts by consulting on the design and servicing of our gas delivery equipment. By sourcing depreciated equipment and restoring it to new specification with its team of repair and refurbishing specialists, Critical Systems has been able to consistently provide much of the equipment we need to support safety, efficiency, and innovation at a fraction of the cost of buying new. And because of their vast experience with industrial gas applications, they are able to suggest cost-saving equipment that streamlines production in ways that I might not  consider.

CSI’s knowledge of automatic gas delivery has made my job easier and made product safer and more profitable. Whereas we used to employ some standalone cylinder cabinets in conjunction with a manual gas panel for some of our mass flow controlled welding processes, the cabinets that were recommended for our most recent process – automatic ones with on-board computers to operate the panel and automatically purge spent tanks of volatile gasses – actually saved us money when the cost of labor from operating the old cylinder cabinets is factored in. (Though they have helped find the best panels for our manual applications.)

Designing production plants and processes to be safe is difficult enough – never mind having to design them to be profitable. The folks at this company are always there for my team and me from conception through implementation. They are the leader in my book when it comes to both price and knowledge – a welcome colleague on the job if you ask me.