Platform Processes
Process4Success

In order to reduce time and engineering effort during design and construction of biopharmaceutical plants, Integrated Solutions at Sartorius Stedim offers entire single-use process platforms (Process4Success®). These are well defined sequences of pre-defined unit operations combined to entire process lines. These platform processes will support present and future progress in biopharmaceutical development and production in order to shorten the time-to-market by minimising engineering efforts and installation work.

Major benefits of process platforms are:

• faster time to market
• less engineering work
• fast project execution
• lower initial investment
• precise cost determination and allocation in early design phases
• possibilities for process optimization through flexible configurations
• accelerated and reliable start of production

All single-use process platforms proposed consist of several standard unit operations modules available in different scales. Each standard unit operation module is well defined allowing a quick configuration of existing modules towards building a complete process, serving the customers needs, and allowing a fast and efficient implementation of any biopharmaceutical process.

Currently the following standard unit operation modules are available:

• media / buffer preparation
• bio reaction / cell culture
• cell removal / harvest
• pooling / storage
• sterile filtration
• capturing / polishing
• virus inactivation / virus clearance
• ultrafiltration/ diafiltration