What Is Industrial Air Conditioning?

A deadly enemy of most electronic equipment and personal productivity is heat. Air conditioning is the mechanical replacement of heat with cooled air. In years past, most large commercial buildings and manufacturing facilities are equipped with industrial air conditioning units in part to alleviate the problems associated with overheating of electronic equipment such as computers, electronic testing instruments, and precision electronic manufacturing equipment. Machinery used to produce critical equipment, usually including precise measurements and tolerances, requires constant cooling to function properly. In a commercial facility, personal comfort was often an adjunct to equipment maintenance; those who worked with or near equipment that needed to be kept cool were the incidental benefactors of industrial air conditioning.