Technical Papers

SOPs for Critical Cleaning

Written by Jan Eudy | July 15, 2024
This is Chapter 5 of Valutek's Technical Paper Series:
Standard Operating Procedures for Controlled Environments

Overview

In cleanroom environments, routine facility cleaning isn't enough. Critical cleaning refers to the precise and validated procedures required for equipment, tools, and surfaces that come into direct contact with products or process media.

SOPs for critical cleaning help eliminate contamination at its source and are vital to quality assurance in high-stakes industries like microelectronics, life sciences, and aerospace.

By the end of Chapter 5, readers will understand how to:

  • Develop SOPs for product-contact surfaces and sensitive tools

  • Select and qualify cleanroom consumables for specific applications

  • Match cleaning chemistries to substrate and process risk

  • Validate cleaning effectiveness using standardized test methods

“Without documented SOPs for critical cleaning, facility operations and process quality are at risk.”

 

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