Compatibility/Standardization: Single-Use Event 2023 theme explained

19/7/23 - The theme for Single-Use Even 2023 has been announced: Compatibility/Standardization. Although there are clearly numerous benefits to implementing single-use (SU) technology, there are still some challenges, such as equipment compatibility and lack of standardization.

Every SU producer manufactures their own SU components like bioreactors, sensors and connectors, which do not always fit to components of other producers. That makes it very complex and also logistically challenging for users.

By not standardising across SU system manufacturers it effectively forces the end user to remain within a given SU environment once they make that initial selection decision to go with a particular SU system manufacturer.

Advantages to single use system standardisation include the avoidance of costs for system modification and faster implementation.

If standardised designs are created that are more or less interchangeable from vendor to vendor the potential market for each SU system manufacturer should increase accordingly, and it should also allow cost reduction in terms of producing those items, because they become standardized.

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