New IEST vocabulary
The final draft International Standard (FDIS) ver-sion of International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) Standard 14644-6 Cleanrooms and controlled environments, Part 6: Vocabulary is now available.
The document, available from the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST) is an international dictionary of all cleanroom terms and definitions used in the ISO 14644 Cleanrooms and controlled environments and the 14698 Biocontamination series.
ISO established Technical Committee (TC) 209 Cleanrooms and associated controlled environments in 1992 to address a need for global clean-room standards rather than the collection of differing national standards in place at that time.
ISO 14644-6 is the last document of the original list proposed by ISO/TC 209 in 1992.
Working Group 6 of ISO/TC 209 was responsible for the harmonisation and unification of the terms, definitions, and units within ISO Standard series 14644 and 14698, as well as for the harmonisation with internationally used definitions.