Jun 27, 2019 07:24
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German term

Spießkasten

German to English Tech/Engineering Medical: Pharmaceuticals Cleanroom manufacturing of pharmaceuticals
Context is a standard operating procedure document for entering and exiting a pharmaceutical cleanroom.

This one really has me stumped. No dictionary seems to have it, not even a German cleanroom glossary. Google searches only turn up grill equipment... maybe they're making Döner in these cleanrooms? Spieß- means "skewer" and "Kasten" is box, does anybody know of a cleanroom apparatus that might look like this? The term only occurs once in all the documentation:

Für alle Tätigkeiten in der Reinraumzone B kann der blaue Overall verwendet werden (Bsp. Wechsel des Spießkastens).

Many thanks to anyone who can shed some light on this!
Proposed translations (English)
4 racks

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racks

the racks used for storing equipment
Peer comment(s):

neutral writeaway : Spießkasten is nowhere on the Linguee page
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2 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "I don't see the word on the Linguee page either (trust me, it was the first place I looked!), and there isn't a lot of evidence to suggest that "racks [for equipment]" is indeed what is meant. However, the parts of the word do evoke something resembling a rack; and folks seem to agree that "racks" is good. "
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