What is a clean room?
A cleanroom (GMP cleanroom), in my mind, is a combination of engineering design, fabrication, finish and operational controls (control strategy) that are required to convert a “normal” room to a “clean room”. This blog will …
Clean room turn down is a growing discussion in the Pharma industry and is usually reflected in corporate policy; if you google ‘sustainability’ and a top ten pharma company name, you’ll find taglines like GSK’s “Our Planet – Our …
PharmOut is a multi-disciplinary team of expert pharmaceutical architects and engineers, we are Australia’s leading pharmaceutical clean room designers, working for cosmetics manufacturers, non sterile and sterile pharmaceutical manufacturers around the world to provide Architecture and Engineering services.
Manufacturers, often …
I want an innovative cleanroom design, the use of the word “innovation” is perhaps the most overused ‘buzz’ word in the design and documentation of health sciences facilities, the intent is certainly not over-used, in the sense of the …
This quick clean room design checklist is part of a number of free suggestions, tools or tips put together by our (frustrated) staff to try circumvent a poor clean room design.
1. Stakeholder consultations
Has everyone who has a stake in …
In its first major revision since the original release in 1999, ISO 14644-1 was updated and approved as an International Standard in October 2015 and published in December 2015. This blog aims to provide a brief overview of the …
In its first major revision since the original release in 2000, ISO 14644-2 was updated and approved as an International Standard in October 2015 and published in December 2015. This blog aims to provide a brief overview of the …
How familiar are you with the common concepts of GMP? If you feel you are up to the challenge, test your knowledge by taking the GMP Quiz Master challenge, if you are brave enough, login and leave your details, …
A lighthearted look at the things that can go wrong with a clean room design, right in time for the holiday season.
A Christmas gift
Yah! Joe had finally gotten approval to build a new clean room as part of the …
What are they and where did they come from?
Air detectors were first developed in the textiles industry where autoclaves are used in a process called ‘heat setting’ for yarns and synthetic fibres such as nylon.
In the textiles industry, autoclaves …
