Cleanroom Best Practices Articles

Ensuring Cleanroom Compliance: The Pillar of Safe and High-Performing Manufacturing

In the world of pharmaceutical manufacturing, biotechnology, and advanced material production, cleanrooms serve as the backbone of contamination control. However, designing and maintaining a compliant cleanroom is not just about meeting regulatory expectations—it is about ensuring safe, consistent, and high-quality manufacturing processes.

New ISPE Guide Includes Updated Guidance for Controlled Temperature Chambers

ISPE announced the release of the ISPE Good Practice Guide: Controlled Temperature Chambers – Commissioning and Qualification, Mapping and Monitoring (Second Edition).

New ISPE Guide for Controlled Temperature Chambers

ISPE announced the release of the ISPE Good Practice Guide: Controlled Temperature Chambers – Commissioning and Qualification, Mapping and Monitoring (Second Edition).

UniFirst Donates Over a .25M Protective Face Masks for Small Businesses

UniFirst Corporation (NYSE: UNF), an industry leader in the supply and servicing of uniforms, workwear, and facility service products, has spent the summer supporting small business revitalization in regions across the United States, Mexico, and Canada through a comprehensive donation totaling more than 250,000 protective face masks.

QuantumClean® & ChemTrace® Show How to Reduce Wafer Fab CoO at SEMICON Europa 2018

QuantumClean® & ChemTrace® Show How to Reduce Wafer Fab CoO at SEMICON Europa 2018

QuantumClean & ChemTrace will demonstrate how its ultra-high purity chamber tool part cleaning, proprietary coatings and microcontamination analytical testing can help reduce wafer fabrication Cost-of-Ownership (CoO). Solutions’ information is available during show hours at SEMICON Europa at the Messe München Exhibition Center in Munich, Germany from November 13 — 16, 2018 (booth A4510).

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New Modbus Flow Totalizer for Hazardous Applications

New Modbus Flow Totalizer for Hazardous Applications

SignalFire Wireless Telemetry introduces the ModQ Sentry, a Modbus Flow Totalizer that interfaces with pulse-type inductive turbine (and other) flow meters to provide instantaneous flow rates, accumulated totals and status information. Units are configurable for volume and time settings and offer options to configure the K factor to match the turbine.

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How to Clean a Biosafety Cabinet

How to Clean a Biosafety Cabinet

10 Easy steps to cleaning a contaminated surface in the biosafety cabinet. The biosafety cabinet is a laboratory workspace that ensures safety and cleanliness for both the person operating in the cleanroom as well as the products or materials being handled in the cleanroom. The biosafety cabinet creates a safe environment for working with drugs, chemicals or hazardous materials.

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Cleanroom Wall Panel Substrates, which is best for my application?

Cleanroom Wall Panel Substrates, which is best for my application?

From Pharmaceutical Cleanrooms to Aerospace Cleanrooms, modular wall systems provide a durable surface that is easy to clean and can be quickly adapted to resize or shape the cleanroom. Due to the wide range of cleanroom applications, you have several factors to consider when choosing your cleanroom’s modular wall systems and your Wall Panel Substrates. When scoping a cleanroom for your business, you have to take into account the following:

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Clean Room Classification & Cost Implications

Clean Room Classification & Cost Implications

Clean room Classification and clean room size greatly affects the cost of a clean room, both from a planning and implementation cost perspective, as well as an operational cost perspective. Many customers will come forth with the idea that they will build a larger clean room than necessary – just in case they need the extra space. This often times results in increased operational costs and unforeseen expenses.

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