活性药物成分（API）制造商已确定，需要制定更高效清洁的设备设计标准，以提高QA和检验机构的认可度，并推进生产设备的最先进水平。新的制药3-A（P3-A）标准规定了制造活性药物成分的建筑材料和可清洁设备的设计要求。本标准为制药3-A®（P3-A）标准和公认实践的用户提供了这些文件中广泛使用的首字母缩写词和术语的定义。

Active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturers have identified the need for standards for the design of equipment that is more efficiently cleanable to enhance acceptance by QA and inspection agencies and advance the state-of-the-art for production equipment. The new Pharmaceutical 3-A (P3-A) standards provide the requirements for materials of construction and for the design of cleanable equipment for the manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients.This standard provides users of Pharmaceutical 3-A® (P3-A) Standards and Accepted Practices with definitions of acronyms and terms widely used in these documents.