Cleaned equipment must be visually inspected, both after cleaning and again before product manufacturing begins. Manufacturing and quality professionals must be qualified to do visual inspections.

Before formal cleaning validation programs were instituted, visual inspection was the primary means of determining equipment cleanliness. The use of visual inspection is still typically a component of ...

(click to enlarge) An automated process makes it easier to spot broken or cracked struts, a bad laser cut, or an uneven electropolish. Throughout their history, stents have been beset by challenges to ...