Development Studies for the Surgicel SNoW Load Increase in the Dehumidification Chamber

Abstract

A medical device company was facing a significant downtime related to “waiting for material”. Due to the high processing time and small loads in the dehumidification process, the next operation (Sealing) was being impacted. Development studies were conducted to three batches of different sizes by increasing the load size and analyzing the impact in the loss on drying (LOD) testing. Results showed that the dehumidification process can consistently produce LOD results of less than 5.5% with the proposed quantities. Key Terms ⎯ development, load on drying, overall equipment increase, loss efficiency.