Case studies: Pharmaceutical CIP and transfer automation
Customer
The customer is a pharmaceutical company with over 60 years in the industry that produces generic medicinal products.
They currently offer 80 pharmaceutical products in over 140 commercial forms, aimed at meeting Colombian society's health and nutritional needs.
Project
The customer was in the process of upgrading their installations. The project led to the construction of the new liquids plant, requiring the assembly and automation of new transfer lines from the preparation to storage area and filling machines. As a result, it became necessary to clean the entire system, including the tanks used in different process stages and all the lines that come in contact with the product.
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“INOXPA’ skids enabled the upgrade of the installations to improve productivity.”
“INOXPA’ skids enabled the upgrade of the installations to improve productivity.”
Installation characteristics
- Pharmaceutical CIP: An automated CIP system was designed to comply with the pharmaceutical industry regulations. It was designed for detergent and sanitiser preparation, it has an automated distribution board that enables solutions to be sent to 11 different zones, performing effective cleaning of preparation tanks, storage tanks, and transfer and filling lines.
- Assembly and automation of transfer lines: Product transfer lines were installed and automated. These ran from the preparation tanks, through a storage phase, ending in filling machine buffer tanks, allowing for an automatic connection matrix between the different components of the system.
Special features
- Design and installation of a fully automated transfer and cleaning process.
- Distribution of cleaning lines cover the entire system and clean the different stages of the process.
- Automated interconnection between the different lines.
- Audit Trail CFR21 P11 FDA automation system.
- Computerised record traceability and control.
INOXPA designed and delivered a solution customised to the client’s requirements, meeting the needs set out during the initial phase. The pharmaceutical company chose the solution offered by INOXPA on considering that it was a better fit for their needs, and also because they were aware of our proven track record and experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
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