Equipment integration in cleanrooms for AbbVie
About AbbVie
AbbVie builds on a deep understanding of biology and unmet patient needs to pursue world-class medicines and solutions for several diseases and conditions. AbbVie wants to accelerate new approaches to treat disease, and the company focuses on a core set of therapeutic areas — ones where AbbVie has proven its expertise and where they have even greater potential to improve how diseases and conditions are managed. These include oncology, immunology, neuroscience, eye care, aesthetics and other areas of unmet medical need.
Challenges and Needs
AbbVie Belgian production site in Grâce-Hollogne, Wallonia, specialized itself in women’s health products. The facility aims to deliver high-quality products while maintaining a strong collaborative mindset across all departments.
The site was seeking an upgrade of its production area where manual preparations are carried out under laminar air flow hoods for enhanced product quality and operator safety.
BECARV solution – equipment integration in cleanrooms
Technology
BECARV engineering team worked on two main aspects of the project. The first one is ergonomics to increase comfort of the operator at work. The second is installation of a ventilation system in classified cleanroom to contribute as well to enhanced working conditions.
For the first matter, BECARV created a full-scale mock-up model mimicking the work conditions to allow operators to simulate their operations in BECARV’s workshop. From there, BECARV produced the plans of construction and validation for the new equipment.
On the other side, the engineering team focused on the modification of the ventilation system and its impact on the production site. Indeed, additional air extraction and filtration had to be designed and overall ventilation of the area had to be re-balanced to maintain the right pressure control and classification of the cleanroom areas.
Approach
BECARV works on the project with partners specialized in HVAC, partition assembly and installation of special ventilation techniques. The latter work was handled under BECARV quality guidelines, and the entire project was managed by BECARV teams.
The project management approach plays a crucial role in the project with a SPOC (Single Point of Contact) person (the BECARV project manager) who organized meetings and communications with the various stakeholders at AbbVie aiming at involving the client personnel who is using the bench stations daily. This was critical for the success of the project since it allowed BECARV engineering team to understand the specific aspects and issues relating to production in aseptic conditions in a classified cleanroom. From there, BECARV was able to design a strategy and build the equipment for improving the working conditions, accounting for enhanced comfort for operators in a classified cleanroom environment aiming ultimately at product quality and operators safety.
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Work environment before the project
Work environment after completion of the project
