In this session, three speakers will discuss the development and preclinical life cycle of instrumentation and devices designed for cellular therapy manufacturing. The first speaker will focus on the industry perspective on how the needs of the cell manufacturing community are addressed and incorporated into the final product. The next speaker will describe the process of early preclinical evaluation and testing of the instrumentation. The final speaker will describe the later stages of pre-clinical development and the introduction of new cellular therapy instrumentation into clinical manufacturing.