Industrial Parts Washers for the Medical and Pharmaceutical Industries
Medical and pharmaceutical manufacturers need cleaning processes designed around their components, production requirements and required cleanliness criteria. Alliance Manufacturing designs and builds industrial medical parts washers and pharmaceutical parts cleaning equipment for specialized manufacturing applications.
Our custom-engineered cleaning systems can be configured to remove machining oils, coolants, particulate, manufacturing residues and other process contamination from medical device components, stainless steel trays, containers and precision-manufactured parts.
Whether your operation requires batch cleaning, automated high-volume processing or a specialized multi-stage cleaning system, Alliance works with you to develop equipment around your parts, contamination, production volume and downstream requirements.
Medical and Pharmaceutical Items We Clean
Alliance cleaning systems can be configured for applications involving:
- Medical device components
- Surgical and medical tools
- Stainless steel trays
- Vials and bottles
- Plastic tray inserts
- Medical waste containers and covers
- Pharmaceutical manufacturing components
- Accessibility device components
- Reusable containers and handling equipment
- Precision-manufactured components
Potential contaminants include machining oils, coolants, chips, particulate, manufacturing residues, process materials, and other soils associated with production and handling.
Multi-Stage Cleaning Processes for Specialized Applications
Medical and pharmaceutical manufacturing applications may require multiple cleaning stages to achieve the cleanliness and process requirements established by the manufacturer. Depending on the application, an industrial parts washer can incorporate the following stages.
Heated Aqueous Washing
A heated aqueous wash can remove machining oils, coolants, particulate and other manufacturing contamination. Cleaning chemistry, temperature, spray pressure and cycle time are selected according to the parts and soils being processed.
Rinsing
One or more rinse stages can help remove residual cleaning chemistry and remaining contamination from component surfaces. Rinse configuration and water quality requirements depend on the manufacturer’s documented process specifications.
Sanitizing, Where Required
For applications requiring an additional sanitizing process, equipment can be configured to accommodate the customer’s specified process and operating parameters. Sanitizing requirements must be established separately from any sterilization requirements.
Blowoff and Heated Drying
Blowoff and heated drying can help reduce residual moisture before downstream handling, assembly, packaging or further processing. Drying methods and parameters are determined by part geometry, material, moisture requirements and the next production step.
Additional features such as filtration, oil removal, solution monitoring and process controls can be incorporated where appropriate for the application.
Supporting Controlled Manufacturing Processes
Cleaning equipment used in pharmaceutical manufacturing must be selected and incorporated into the manufacturer’s overall quality and validation program.
FDA Current Good Manufacturing Practice requirements address equipment design, cleaning, and maintenance. Manufacturers remain responsible for establishing their required cleaning procedures, acceptance criteria, validation requirements, and other applicable regulatory controls.
Alliance works with customers to engineer equipment around their documented process requirements rather than applying a single cleaning specification to every application.
Experience With Specialized Cleaning Applications
Alliance has developed industrial cleaning equipment for applications involving medical waste containers, bottles, trays, manufactured components, and other specialized products.
These projects demonstrate how factors such as temperature, spray coverage, part orientation, production rate, rinsing, sanitizing, and drying can be incorporated into a cleaning system designed around a specific manufacturing process.
Test Your Parts Before Selecting a Washer
When cleaning requirements are difficult to establish, application testing can help determine appropriate wash chemistry, temperature, spray configuration, cycle time, rinsing, drying, and other process parameters.
Alliance can evaluate customer parts and contamination before equipment specifications are finalized.
Discuss Your Cleaning Application
Provide Alliance with your parts, contamination, cleanliness criteria, production requirements, and required process stages. Our team can help determine an appropriate cleaning approach for your application.
