I participated in my first Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) recently, and I wanted to share my experience of what that looked like. FAT is performed during the initial stages of Commissioning, Qualification and Validation (CQV) for new customized equipment purchased for pharmaceutical processes. This ...

Testing is done at the factory where the system is called FAT. The purpose of this test is to ensure that the system functions according to its operational requirements given in the URS. A cross-functional team from the user side will visit the factory to see it. The vendor then demonstrates the performance ...

Any instrumentation that’s being meant to be employed in manufacturing varied merchandise needs to meet bound specifications before it’s delivered to a customer and put in. The instrumentation needs to endure what’s referred to as the industrial plant Acceptance take a look at (FAT) ...