Improving maintenance programmes for high containment installations

Published: 6-Feb-2017

Paul Kilfoyle, Service Manager, PSL, reviews the importance of planned maintenance and provides good practices to keep high containment isolators and gloveboxes performing as new

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Planned maintenance at pharmaceutical facilities, and specifically on high containment process equipment, must be carried out to not only prevent problems arising during production, but also to minimise the risk of potential harm to the operators and the environment over time as well as ensuring the equipment is still performing efficiently.

If maintenance activities are not planned proactively, then the chance of emergency breakdowns increases, which could result in a loss of production, delayed deadlines, higher costs to resolve the problem and exposing the facility and workers to a whole range of risks.

A detailed maintenance strategy ensures process equipment is more reliable and therefore the entire manufacturing plant runs smoothly.

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