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13.12.2019

Scientists at TU Berlin win the State Award

Avoid animal testing in research

Every year, in Germany alone, 200,000 test animals are used for the research of infectious diseases. These experiments are not only highly stressful for the animals but are often only very limitedly translatable to humans. Researchers at TU Berlin have been working intensively for years to develop t…

This building must be very versatile: in addition to production, there are also office, laboratory, and storage areas here. (© Biotest AG)

From overview to daily routine: With a systematic approach, the Lean method offers many advantages for life sciences projects. (© Drees & Sommer)

In the first step, all activities and their dependencies are identified in a comprehensive process analysis. (© Drees & Sommer)

This analysis forms the basis for the process planning. It is translated into a schedule and supplemented with the necessary execution durations. (© Drees & Sommer)

The detailed board planning helps organize the daily work on the construction site. (© Drees & Sommer)

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Buildings & Rooms

With the baton to the goal

Biotest New Level

The new 40-meter-high production building of Biotest AG in Dreieich, Hesse, houses three stacked production levels, office and laboratory spaces, extensive technical areas, and a deep-freeze storage for blood plasma. To complete this complex construction project on time and cost-effectively, the pha…

The days of manual opening with a handle are over. The door of the Comfort S6 can be opened fully automatically (one-finger operation) or contactlessly with the optional voice control.

Innovative HEPA Easy Change filter system enables contamination-free filter replacement and high ease of maintenance.

Various parameters can be configured via WLAN.

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Building technology

The safest way from A to B

Comfort S6 by Ortner

Pass-throughs are indispensable across various industries. Although well established in the market, integration at the site is usually quite demanding: from planning, through installation, to connection with infrastructure. The material pass-through Comfort S6, available from Ortner from Q2 2020, pr…

11.12.2019

"Physiotherapy" in the cleanroom

TensionTerminator - The Tension Destruction Device

Sedentary activities, especially those in the cleanroom environment (microscope), often cause severe tension in employees. This leads to sick days, therapy visits, or loss of staff. The developer's goal has always been to effectively and sustainably resolve this situation.

With the newly developed Te…

Figure 1: Flush in-wall assembly without front panel.

Figure 2: On-wall mounting on the U-pipe support arm. Multiple rotatable couplings allow the HMI and support arm to rotate by 350°. The cable management is performed internally in compliance with cleanroom standards.

Figure 3: Mobile HMI with powerful battery in the foot.

Figure 4: Mobile HMI with dual-screen display for viewing multiple applications simultaneously.

Figure 5: Inductive charging enables a cable-free cleanroom. The device can be operated during the charging process.

Figure 6: A tablet is particularly suitable for applications in maintenance, commissioning, and for presenting Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) in cleanrooms.

Figure 7: Illustration of workflow optimization and reduction of walking distances covered through use of a mobile HMI.

Figure 8: The user interface of building automation systems is represented by an HMI with a typically small display and limited computing power.

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Furnishing & equipment

Consideration of different methods for HMI integration in cleanrooms for GMP-compliant planning of an optimized production environment

HMI Assembly Options in Cleanrooms

Preamble

Nowadays, it is hard to imagine process management and visualization in modern processing environments within the pharmaceutical and biotech industries without the use of Human Machine Interfaces (HMI). What’s more, the additional requirements for a paperless production process and biometric…

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Buildings & Rooms

Lifting tables and lifting jacks from EAP Lachnit for versatile use

Reaching high in sensitive areas

Lifting devices are used in the industry at many locations. Especially in sensitive areas such as cleanrooms, Ex-zones, or in the production of chemicals, food, or pharmaceuticals, strict regulations apply to the use of lifting equipment. For both work processes and maintenance work on machines, sys…

The groundbreaking idea of the NOTICE project is to use a novel stable oxide material as the basis for both the superconductor and topological insulator material. At the epitaxial interface, Majorana fermions – building blocks for fault-tolerant qubits – will be generated.

11.12.2019

Prestigious European ERC Consolidator Grant awarded to imec’s Clement Merckling for developing fault-tolerant Qubits

Imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, today announces that the European Research Council has awarded Clement Merckling, principal member of technical staff at imec, a Consolidator Grant for working out his project NOTICE. Groundbreaking idea o…

Gerresheimer is known for its extensive portfolio of plastic containers for solid and liquid drugs and specializes in child-resistant closure systems.

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Gerresheimer opens a new plant for the production of pharmaceutical primary plastic packaging in China

A new plant for producing plastic pharmaceutical packaging has been set up in the Chinese city of Changzhou to help satisfy the high demand for Gerresheimer’s primary packaging in China in the future. Today the new facility will be officially opened.

“From now on, we will also have production facilit…

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Furnishing & equipment

Spetec Cleanroom Technology, laser protection, and peristaltic pumps in the new company building

The Spetec Company for Laboratory and Cleanroom Technology GmbH sees itself as prepared for further growth following the recent company relocation to Erding-West. Spetec was founded in 1987 in Erding and is a manufacturer of cleanroom technology, laboratory equipment, and laser protection.

The requir…

Benchmark study: imec’s devices with 4nm, 8nm, 12nm HfO₂ and 50nm SiO₂ have an excellent combination of gmmax and SSmin compared to literature.

TEM images showing (a) 3 monolayers MoS₂ channel, with contact length 13nm and channel length 29nm. Transfer characteristics have improved sub-threshold swing (SS) with thinner HfO₂.

Transfer characteristics have improved sub-threshold swing (SS) with thinner HfO₂.

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2D materials paving the way to extreme scaling for logic and memory transistors

Imec shows excellent performance in ultra-scaled FETs with 2D-material channel

At this year’s IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (Dec 7-11 2019), imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, reports an in-depth study of scaled transistors with MoS2 and demonstrates best device performance to date for such materials.

MoS…

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