Subject:  Lounges Update Plus More Cleanroom Insights

Tomorrow Dr. Hans Schicht will be at Lounges gathering information for Cleanroom Insights #3. Here are his and other contacts which may help you coordinate your meetings in Karlsruhe.

In case you missed Cleanroom Insights #2 emailed to you last week you can Click Here to view it.

Also, Click Here for the gateway to comprehensive cleanroom information on our free site.

Peter Fernie of the Irish Contamination Control Society emailed us after receiving Cleanroom Insights #2. He complimented us on the publication and inquired as to whether we would be covering the activities of the society.  In fact, we are in the process of adding information on the free site for all the associations.  At this point we just have one entry covering the following:

Association of Engineers for Microcontamination

Associazone per lo Studio ed il Controllo dell Contaminazione (ASCCA)

Association pour la Prevention et l'Etude de la Contamination (ASPEC)

Cleanroom and Contamination Control Association for Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden (R3 Nordic)

International Confederation of Contamination Control Societies (ICCCS)

Irish Cleanroom Society (ICS)

Leem (French Pharmaceutical Companies Association)

Österreichisch Reinraumgesellschaft (ORRG)

PhSS

Romanian Association for Prevention, Study and Contamination Control (RACC), Romania

Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Reinraumtechnik (SRRT)

Scottish Society for Contamination Control (S2C2)

VDI Commission for Cleanroom Technology (VDICCT)

Verband Forschender Arzneimittelhersteller

Vereniging Contamination Control Nederland (VCCN)

Bringing Cleanroom Technology to the Healthcare Industry

In Cleanroom Insights #2 we discussed the benefits that hospitals would achieve if they utilized the more sophisticated technology adopted by pharmaceutical cleanrooms. We showed coverage of DuPont hospital and cleanroom activities as an example. Here are some more examples.

Last Friday we received the Kimberly Clark newsletter covering healthcare in the broadest sense with Kleenex applications for colds & flu as well as two cleanroom subjects.

Also late last week we were corresponding with Jim Fredericks of Phoenix Controls. He is a new subscriber to our Cleanrooms World Markets report. His company has ventilation solutions for both hospital surgeries and pharmaceutical Cleanrooms. We will post information on both of these applications on the free site in the next few days.

We believe in the concept of a global orchard of knowledge decision trees with the blossoms of each tree used to pollinate the others. Hospitals and pharmaceutical companies can also benefit from the Phoenix experience in animal research laboratories.

A Demanding Control Environment (55.89 KB)
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

The laboratory is equipped with a ventilation system which can be switched from positive to negative. Depending on whether the animals are a threat to workers or the need is to protect the animals. Contract pharmaceutical companies have the same problems.  Possibly hospitals could benefit by the flexibility to make a room under negative pressure when it needs to be isolated.

McIlvaine began on the global orchard concept with the power industry and has a lot to offer cleanroom operators just based on this experience.  For example, in terms of measuring the velocity McIlvaine has conducted critical webinars on comparing pressure differential vs. thermal vs. ultrasonic flow sensors which determine whether emission limits are being met.

The McIlvaine work to provide a common sustainability metric for power plants involved incorporating both CO² and water pollution. It turns out that the argument about the sustainability of reusable vs. single use surgical gowns involves the same issue. Here is a Google link to one article appearing in a hospital magazine:

1.     Quality Enhanced Life Days ~ A New Metric for Hospital Sustainability

Aug 19, 2010 ... McIlvaine has supplemented this term with a new term which reflects.... The common metric using Quality Enhanced Life Days (QELD) promises ...
www.healthcaredevelopmentmagazine.com/.../quality-enhanced-life-days-a- new-metric-for-hospital-sustainability.html - Cached

Pursuing the image of the global orchard, think in terms of the roots of the trees. They include all the printed and digital highways that make the fruit ripen. One of the newest and most promising is YouTube. Here is a link to the Guardline laundry video:

Clean room Garments

Guardline Cleanroom Laundry Service - www.guardlinetechnology.co.uk