Improve Your Cleanroom Workflow With Barcodes
We’re always looking for ways to improve cleanroom workflow through whatever is necessary. While completely changing the set-up of the cleanroom might not be possible, there are simple, cost-effective measures you can take to improve your cleanroom workflow - like using barcodes. Think about how often you see barcodes in society. They’re used in just about every warehouse and store in the world - and there’s a reason for that. They save...
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9 Things To Look For In Your Particle Counter
So you are wondering what to look for in a particle counter that will get you to the perfect contamination control strategy. We get it! The particle counter you decide on will become an integral part of your strategy. Whether your strategy involves increasing yield, complying with your industry standards, or reducing risk overall. Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions is here to help you along the way. We have been involved with creating and perfecting contamination control...
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10 Important Ways You Can Streamline Your Cleanroom Workflow
How Can You Streamline Your Cleanroom Workflow? Your cleanroom workflow sets the tone for your production and ultimately impacts your yield. Making the effort to streamline your cleanroom workflow might take some time in the process but will ultimately save you time, money, and increase your productivity. So what are some steps you can take to streamline your workflow? Integrate Technology Into Your Cleanroom We love the new technology coming out in the...
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How Do Particles Impact Pharmaceuticals?
As clean air experts, we talk a lot about making sure that the air in a cleanroom stays as clean as possible. We do this to meet Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) in pharmaceuticals and keep our products on the shelves and helping people. When we bring contaminants into a cleanroom, we risk harm to the product and, in turn, harm to the consumer. This also comes with painful backlash for the company. So how exactly do particles impact...
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10 Facts About Indoor Air Quality You Might Not Know
In the COVID-19 era, indoor air quality has become a hot button topic. There are a lot of interesting facts about indoor air quality that you might not know, but one of the most surprising facts is that your indoor air quality was impacting you long before COVID. As the world’s clean air experts, we specialize in keeping the air in cleanrooms extra clean. But we also care about the air you’re breathing in your home and workspace. So here are 10 facts about...
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What Are Particles?
Particles are all the physical little pieces of stuff floating around in the air. Sometimes they can be visible to the naked eye (like a large floating piece of dust or pollen), but, most of the time, when we’re talking about particles, we’re talking about the ones that are too small to see. But we’ll get to sizing in just a minute. In the era of COVID-19, the general public has been paying a lot more attention to the cleanliness of their air....
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5 Fundamentals Of Particle Counters
Particle counters do just that: they count particles. They are used in cleanrooms to count and size the particles in the air so the cleanroom can stay in proper working function and meet crucial certification criteria. The fundamentals of particle counters are relatively simple. You need to know how and why they work. If you have a basic grasp of these fundamentals, you'll be on your way to better understanding particle...
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Keeping Space Clean: Cleanrooms And Space
This week, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) rover Perseverance, a part of the Mars 2020 mission, landed on Mars. While the world was abuzz with this incredible step for mankind, cleanroom technicians were also cheering loudly. Because there’s a tight link between cleanrooms and space as we take every precaution possible to keep space clean. We talk a lot about cleanrooms being used in technology, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment...
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8 Industries That Need A Cleanroom
Who uses a cleanroom? Cleanrooms designed to keep air constantly circulating, using air filters and positive pressure to keep critical processes clean from particles and contaminants. So they are important in industries where external contaminants can ruin products, affect product quality, or harm people. Cleanrooms are the backbone of some critical industries and our lives would look very different without them. Could you imagine buying a phone that broke...
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ISO 17025 Calibration
What It Means And Why It’s Important
Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions is proud to announce that all of our manufacturing and service facilities have been accredited for the ISO 17025 testing and calibration of air particle counters and volumetric air samplers. We are also able to do these calibrations in the field, so we can continue to service your particle...
What Is Particle Counter Calibration? And why is it important?
What Is Particle Counter Calibration? And why is it important? Particle counters are a fundamental part of any properly maintained cleanroom. They are intricate tools used to count the number of particles in a cleanroom and measure their size. Regular particle counter calibration is an essential part of cleanroom maintenance, so they can stay functioning at their peak productivity. So what exactly does particle counter calibration involve? What...
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How Does A Cleanroom Work?
Cleanrooms are uniquely designed to keep a workspace clean from particles and contaminants, but how does it do that? There a number of physical components that keep a cleanroom working - and we’ll cover those - but cleanrooms also use physics to keep particles away from your workspace. Two words: positive pressure. So how does that work? First, let’s cover how a cleanroom is physically built and structured to understand how physics plays a role. The...
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What Is A Cleanroom? And How Using A Cleanroom Can Benefit You
If you’re working for a company already using a cleanroom, you’re well aware of the benefits of a cleanroom and how important they are. But if you’re wondering how you can improve your production, then a cleanroom might be the answer. Either way, a cleanroom is not a simple beast. It is a multi-layered room that needs to be constantly monitored and maintained. Having a basic understanding of the fundamentals of what a cleanroom is will change the way you...
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Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions was part of Yıldız Technical University's 8th BioForm Event!
BioForm is an event with the participation of companies, academics and entrepreneurs aiming to introduce students to engineering applications in medicine, chemistry, pharmaceuticals, genetics and engineering applications in these sectors, and shed light on students' career paths. Lighthouse was one of the sponsors of Bioform and Hasim Solmaz, General Manger of Lighthouse EMEA had a great presentation that explained the basics of cleanroom monitoring...
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Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions, The First Company to Produce N95 Masks In Oregon
Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions is the first company in Oregon to manufacture N95 masks and pass the certification for NIOSH approval. Lighthouse completed the rigorous process of obtaining NIOSH approval from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). According to one of the articles published by KTVL, Adam Crawford, the external relations director for the state's department expressed. "We as a state of Oregon, have been in the process of buying a...
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Hasim Solmaz, General Manager of Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions EMEA Operations' Virtual IEST training presentation was a great success!
On November 11, Hasim Solmaz General Manager of Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions EMEA Operations presented during the IEST Training for the second time. The title of the course he covered was: New ISO 14644-3:2019 - Basic Information and Implementation. This course provided information about revisions and general implementation for existing cleanroom testing procedures: Comparison between 2005 and 2019 Versions Terms and definitions, Incorporation...
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China International Pharmaceutical Machinery Expo
CIPM was held in Wuhan on November 3-5, 2020 There was an estimated 1300+ exhibitors who participated with a record total of 80k visitors. Distributor, North River led by Mr. Shen JunQiao participated with various Lighthouse products such as the Apex Z-series and AC100H!
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Successful Training Days!
Thanks to the simplified Light-scattering airborne-particle counter (LSAPC) method in ISO 14644-3 test method standard 2019 revision, ScanAir Pro is now more attractive than ever before for validation and qualification professionals. Lighthouse EMEA organized training days for 'Cleanroom Standards' and LSAPC method for filter testing with ScanAir Pro for its new Scanair customers. The Lighthouse team measured the effectiveness of the training with...
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Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions is featured on the cover of the current edition of Cleanroom Technology, as well as in a corresponding advertorial!
Congratulations to Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions for another front cover feature on Cleanroom Technology's March 2020 edition! Lighthouse paperless clean room solutions can eliminate most of the manual and time-consuming tasks associated with sampling, data collection, excursion management and data consolidation. If you would like to learn even more, please sign up for our Upcoming Webinar: Particle Monitoring - Going Paperless in the...
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Lighthouse is Partnering with KENX for the "Cleanroom Validation, Disinfection, & Environmental Monitoring" Conference, February 17th - 19th in San Diego
At 12pm Wednesday, February 19th, Jason Kelly, Vice President of Services, Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions will be presenting on the topic of "Environmental Monitoring System Design – to meet cGMP"
SESSION DESCRIPTION
With the never ending shift towards continuous quality improvements within the manufacturing of pharmaceutical products it is worth looking at the current requirement of GMP and also 21CFR11 in the context of GAMP 5 requirements.
How a Company creates, maintains, retrieves, corrects and controls data can affect...
