Wash-off-line system for pharmaceutical plants
Optimize your production with a versatile wash-off-line system, ensuring precise cleaning and sanitization of pharmaceutical equipment, enhancing operational efficiency and minimizing downtime.

Cleans, Washes, Dries, and Sanitizes Pharmaceutical Equipment
The Wash-Off-Line (WOL) from GEA is an engineered-to-order solution designed to enhance cleaning, washing, drying, and sanitizing processes in pharmaceutical production lines. The WOL’s flexible design allows it to effectively manage the cleaning of pharmaceuticals, ranging from tablets to liquid formulations like paracetamol and ibuprofen tablets and cough syrups. This system utilizes PLC-based controls combined with multifunctional wash skids for precise, customizable wash cycles, ensuring consistent cleaning and minimal downtime.
Noteworthy for its integration capability, the WOL can be incorporated into existing lines and operates independently, allowing continuous production during off-line cleaning. Equipped with corrosion-resistant materials, the WOL provides long-lasting durability in challenging environments and meets GMP and FDA standards for quality assurance, making it a compliant and reliable choice for pharmaceutical manufacturers. The standalone service module, which includes a heat exchanger, valves, and detergent tanks, facilitates effective air drying and sanitation, optimizing energy usage and enabling hassle-free maintenance.
Benefits
- Increases production efficiency by allowing simultaneous cleaning and production operations.
- Reduces operational costs with customizable, low water-consuming wash cycles.
- Ensures product quality and compliance with GMP and FDA standards.
- Minimizes equipment downtime with quick, PLC-controlled wash cycles.
- Offers flexible integration into existing lines and processes.
- Applications
- Pharmaceutical powders,Liquid formulations,Pharmaceutical tablets
- End products
- Ibuprofen tablets,Antihistamine powders,Cough syrup,Vitamin c powders,Paracetamol tablets,Antacid liquid formulations
- Steps before
- Powder handling,Tablet compression,Bulk production,Ingredient mixing
- Steps after
- Sterilization,Cooling,Packing,Final sanitization and drying,Product changeover
- Input ingredients
- containers,detergents,sanitizing fluid,purified water,municipal water,tablet press ECM,powder feed,peripheral equipment
- Output ingredients
- cleaned containers,cleaned ECM,cleaned powder feed equipment,cleaned peripheral equipment,washed water
- Market info
- GEA is known for its expertise in engineering innovative and sustainable equipment and solutions, focusing on sectors such as food, beverages, pharmaceuticals, and energy, with a reputation for quality, efficiency, and advanced technological applications in industrial processing.
- Cleaning method
- WOL / CIP/ WIP / Manual
- Automation
- PLC-controlled
- Cycle time
- 40 minutes
- Water consumption
- Low
- Material
- Corrosion-free
- Capacity
- Multiple unit operation possible
- Cooling option
- Air drying and cooling
- Washing system
- Manual / Fully automated
- Cleaning method
- CIP / Manual
- CIP/SIP
- CIP 121°C / SIP 135°C
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Batch / Inline Continuous
- Automation level
- Manual / PLC / SCADA
- Energy efficiency
- 0.5–2 kWh/kg moisture
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Feed/Discharge method
- Manual / Automated
- Control panel type
- PLC-based
- Control panel type
- Manual / PLC / HMI
- Integration possibilities
- PLC-based wash cycle selection / Standalone module
- Wash skid mobility
- Movable / Portable
- Detergent and sanitizing fluid metering
- Auto dosing
- Trolley arm feature
- ECM transfer
- Spray nozzles attachment
- High-performance / Customizable
- Water jet design
- Specially designed for low water consumption