Yokogawa Solution Service Corporation has announced that it will join the Smart Cell Processing project, a joint undertaking of industrial, administrative, and academic organisations in Japan and the UK that is being led by Tokyo Electron, and will work with Tokyo Electron to develop a total quality management system for the automated production of stem cells that will be used in regenerative medicine.
Tokyo Electron has established the Stem Cell Technology Centre (STC) in the UK and is working with 15 technology partners to establish and standardise smart cell processing technologies for cultivating and inspecting stem cells of clinical quality. For this purpose, a manufacturing control system is needed that can control cell quality during the automatic cultivation process. Yokogawa will develop a complete stem cell production quality management solution that will also control logistics and function as a manufacturing execution system and plant information management system.
Yokogawa plans to capitalise on this joint development opportunity to expand its business in the field of biotechnology.
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