Conference Theme Announced for CleanRooms Europe 2009
Improved Productivity and Lower Life-cycle Costs will be the focus of the 2009 CleanRooms Europe Conference & Exhibition being held in Stuttgart March 24-26, 2009.
Contamination and infection control technology plays a critical role in so many industries with regard to maintaining product quality, safety, performance, reliability, consistency, personnel protection and so many other factors, but one area that may perhaps not be adequately appreciated is it?s contribution to overall productivity and the control of total life-cycle costs. As noted by CleanRooms Europe Conference Program Director, John Haystead, "last year, our program successfully examined the role of contamination control in energy efficiency and keeping operating costs down, but this is only one aspect of the much broader contribution that our science and technology delivers to the entire productivity equation -- and productivity is the number one issue for all manufacturers and service providers ? whether the product is something tangible like a drug or semiconductor, or something immeasurable like the confidence that comes from knowing your hospital operating or treatment room is free of non-patient-derived infection sources."
The 2009 CleanRooms Europe conference program will look at how this concept applies to a host of user industries including advanced semiconductor manufacturing, bio/pharmaceutical production, hospital hygiene and infection control, solar panels and photovoltaics, automobiles and others. Taking the pharmaceutical industry for example, says Haystead, "just think of the ramifications involved when trying to optimize total life-cycle costs with strict adherance to GMP. You have to take everything into consideration, facility design, process design, filtration systems and access control, cleaning materials and procedures, worker apparel. When it comes to productivity and life cycle costs, the list of contamination control related factors is almost endless, and these are precisely the kinds of issues our high-level conference program will address and attempt to solve for attendees with industry leading, best practices and solutions."
The 10th anniversary CleanRooms Europe event held 11 - 13 March 2008, also at the state-of-the-art Neue Messe Stuttgart, set record attendance. More than 2,600 participants from 62 countries attended the show. Of the more than one third of attendees who visited from outside Germany, 13 per cent travelled to Stuttgart from non-EU European Countries, Asia, the Middle East, the Americas, and Africa - making CleanRooms Europe a truly international event.
