GMP Manufacturing and Quality Control

The manufacturing of cell therapy products requires testing at multiple stages and thus requires a significant amount of time and effort to ensure that the instrumentation and assays deliver accurate results. This drives interest in methods to improve efficiency of these workflows.

The BD FACSLyric™ Flow Cytometer enables efficiency and productivity with:

• Distinctive assay portability feature that allows easy and efficient transfer of assays across sites
• Automated analysis using the BD ElastiGate™ Autogating Algorithm in the BD FACSuite™ Application v1.6, which enables 1.8X faster analysis
• Fluorescence compensation required only every 60 days
• Flexibility for acquisition using a universal loader with 21 different loading options including multiwell plates
• Automated laser alignment

In addition, flow cytometry sample preparation can be automated using the BD FACSLyric™ Flow Cytometer integrated with the BD FACSDuet™ Sample Preparation System. Benefits of this solution include:

• Physical integration of the sample preparation system with the flow cytometer to provide a complete end-to-end walkaway solution
• On-board, automated antibody cocktail preparation, washing, centrifugation and sample transfer that eliminates risk of errors due to manual pipetting
• Support for different types of blood collection tubes and a wide variety of reagent vials

Download the BD FACSDuet™ Premium Sample Preparation System brochure.

See below for data from a clinical lab demonstrating the reduction in hands-on time gained when using a BD FACSDuet™ System to automate a standard wash assay.

Reduce Operator Hands-on-time with the BD FACSDuet™ Premium System

Ensuring consistent performance across the globe is critical for the distributed manufacturing and testing commonly found in cell therapy manufacturing as well as producing quality clinical research data. BD Biosciences has developed robust methods to make this easier.

Streamlined Assay Transfer for Reproducible Performance Across Manufacturing Sites

Universal Setup on the BD FACSLyric™ Flow Cytometer allows transfer of user-defined assays from one instrument to another, supporting standardization of conditions for reproducibility across global manufacturing sites. This high-performance, highly sensitive flow cytometer demonstrates exceptional resolution and improved separation to make dim and rare populations easier to resolve.  

The BD FACSDuet™ Sample Preparation System fully automates flow cytometry sample prep, including sample washing. The BD FACSDuet™ System adds traceability and automation to the preanalytical process.

BD Clinical Discovery Research Reagents are manufactured in a GMP environment to support your manufacturing QC assays. Using GMP reagents as part of your flow cytometry quality control helps to further standardize your manufacturing QC assay to give you confidence in the safety and integrity of your clinical research. Lot-to-lot consistency leads to results that increase confidence in the data and that it can be safe for translating into clinical use in the future.

BD RUO (GMP) Reagents are manufactured in accordance with Good Manufacturing Practices for devices under 21 CFR Part 820. Unit-sized preformulated and performance-optimized multicolor RUO/GMP panels are also available.

Custom multicolor panel solutions are also available to drive workflow efficiency and assay standardization. These reagents, defined by the customer, are manufactured using proprietary BD Horizon™ Chroma Dried Paneland are stable for 12–18 months at room temperature.

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A user-defined assay across three instruments shows the performance of Universal Setup on the BD FACSLyric™ System.

Our flagship analyzer, BD FACSLyric™ Flow Cytometer, is upgradeable to a 12-color configuration. It is powered by the BD FACSuite™ Application used for acquisition and analysis that helps to support 21 CFR Part 11 compliance with password protection, electronic signatures, automatic record keeping and audit trails. We provide operational qualification (OQ) by a BD field service engineer for features related to 21 CFR Part 11 compliance for the BD FACSLyric™ Flow Cytometer and the BD FACSuite™ Application.

The BD FACSDuet™ Premium System allows traceability of samples and worklists through carrier barcoding and supports ISO 15189-accredited labs with compliance with complete workflow traceability.

Automated systems and software such as the BD FACSuite™ Application include built-in functional controls that helps to achieve compliance with the functional aspects of 21 CFR Part 11. However, there are limitations to what the tools can provide.

Learn how the BD FACSuite™Application functions and options support 21 CFR Part 11.

With BD as your single partner for flow cytometry reagents, instruments and services you will benefit from synergies in user workflows and support provided. BD Technical Services provide installation qualification (IQ), operational qualification (OQ) and technical service support to minimize instrument downtime. BD offers qualification assistance to help customers meet current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) and Good Laboratory Practice (cGLP) standards. Explore our contract manufacturing offering of multicolor panels in liquid, dried or lyophilized formats to minimize errors and time associated with manual cocktailing of reagents.

The BD FACSLyric™ Flow Cytometer has an install base of more than 3,000 units around the world. BD Biosciences has service engineers and application specialists available across North and South America, Africa, Europe and Asia to support your needs as you look to scale up operations.