A skid mounted vertical basket laboratory-sized unit features a 200-mm bowl for the increasing demands of modern test laboratories, pilot plants and small scale production in the chemical, pharmaceutical and foodstuff industries. The unit operates the centrifuge with the same filter cake thickness as on a production-sized machine to give precise and exact scale up results for all process steps of filling, spinning, washing and discharging. It provides high levels of flexibility, such as frequent product change over, fast startup, automated cleaning, simple quick inspection for post process and cleaning inspection.