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Present technologies in use to load and unload vials in a lyophilizer, can vary from manual to completely automated. Manual loading is typical of a lab or pilot plant lyophilizer units where the quantity of vials are smaller and easier to handle. Trays of vials would be placed on the shelves, one at a time, and pushed into position loading from back to the front of each shelf. This would require tools to be able to push and retrieve the trays during loading and unloading. The loading and unloading areas of the Lyophilizer must also be in a laminar flow Class 100 area.

However, manually loading larger pilot scale to production sized units, the lyophilizer loading and unloading of thousands of glass vials would become much more time consuming, strenuous, and typically utilizes some additional equipment such as accumulator tables, tray loaders for arranging vials onto a tray which will assist the operator in properly configuring vials