Trouble in the World’s Best Cleanroom?

Bacterial infection tuberculosis

In the contamination-control industry, we all understand the importance of and difference in ISO classes. These global standards were devised and adopted when the U.S. General Service Administrations standards – then known as FS209E – were no longer adequate in categorizing the growing specifications in cleanroom technology. From the original six classes of the FS209E, […]

IEST 2016 Exceptional Woman Contributor Award Winner

Lynn IEST AWARD

Lynn Stanard, Senior Quality Manager, was a recipient of the 2016 Exceptional Woman Contributor Award by Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology. The award citation reads: To Lynn Stanard, for her 25 years of active participation and leadership in IEST Working Groups. Her expert knowledge of cleanroom consumables has been fundamental to the development of […]

When Are Errors To Be Seen as Opportunities for Improvement?

Invitro Info Graphic

As with much of life, perfecting the implementation of a technique is a matter of trial and error. From the correct perspective,  and, in finding a solution to a problem, the error is prevented from recurring. In this light, mistakes are simply opportunities disguised as problems and they allow for continual improvement. And in one […]

How the FDA is wrestling with bio-medical 3D-printing.

3D printing human heart

In a science-fictional universe way ahead of us in the future, there is no industrial complex as we know it today. No sprawling manufacturing campuses or security-patrolled warehouses crammed with shelved inventory. Everything we use on a day-to-day basis is created on demand, at the very moment it is required. All of our homes are […]

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