One such area in manufacturing that needs immediate attention is cleaning or washing of processing vessels and components. Today, most of the manufacturing facility adopts advanced technology in the production process but still uses the conventional manual method of cleaning for process components. As the majority of pharmaceutical processing is conducted in batch mode, the cleaning process becomes inevitable between the batches. Cleaning plays a critical role to maintain product quality and reduces the risk of batch failure. Effective cleaning ensures the components are free of dirt, particles or material from the previous batch and therefore avoids cross-contamination of the product.

One of the significant challenges with manual cleaning is a validation of the cleaning process, as the cleaning results vary from person to person and becomes person dependent activity. Nowadays, cleaning validation is as important as the production process validation. The stringent regulatory requirement and increasingly competitive market demand an efficient and regulatory complied cleaning process.