Focus on Efficiency
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Powder Flow: Identifying Powder’s Critical Quality Attributes & Relationship to Process Behavior
Powders are highly complex variable materials and are used in the manufacture of over 80% of products currently on the market. Flow properties relate to numerous processes so powder behaviour will influence all sorts of key quality attributes of the finished product. Read more »
Ins & Outs of Tech Transfer
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- PharmaManufacuring eBook: Holistic QbD Since FDA introduced the term to the pharmaceutical industry in 2005, the concept of pharmaceutical quality by design (pharma QbD), a framework for building quality into pharmaceuticals during drug development has been slowly gaining ground. Discrete industries are no strangers to QbD. Now, however, some vendors to the pharmaceutical industries are applying pharma QbD principles to develop their pharmaceutical industry products. This e-book offers general resources in the area of QbD, and discusses how West Pharmaceuticals has been bringing a QbD approach to its packaging components.
- Application Brief: Filtration Processes Applied in Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibody Production
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- Single-Use Depth-Filtration System
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- Focus on Pharma: Episode 24: The Facility of Tomorrow: Biopharma Leads the Industry Biopharmaceutical manufacturers are reducing risk and cost by using modular construction, disposable process equipment, contained equipment and other innovations. Will they change the industry's approach to plant design and engineering?
- Focus on Pharma: Faster Knowledge and Technology Transfer Using Video Transferability of experimental methods is a problem for industrial and academic labs alike, wasting millions of dollars each year. The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) uses video to help transfer the knowledge required to carry out lab experiments successfully. Co-founder Moshe Pritsker discusses its business model, industry issues and how the journal works.
- Taking the Emotion Out of Pharma Outsourcing: John Gray Discusses Recent Research into Quality Risks Offshore Outsourcing and offshoring are touchy subjects for any community anxious about losing potential industry and jobs. A study in November's issue of the Journal of Operations Management suggests that quality risks increase when operations are moved offshore, but emphasizes the fact that this is a knowledge management problem. Lead author, Professor John Gray of Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business, discusses the study, industry reaction, misunderstandings and upcoming research on this important, but difficult, topic.
- Focus on Pharma Episode 20: FDA and USP Collaborate to Update Standards for Over-the-Counter Medications A September workshop sponsored by FDA and USP will examine progress in modernizing analytical methods and test procedures, to help prevent adulterated over-the-counter medications from reaching the public. Impurities testing and material identification will be critical. Both Agencies summarized recent progress in these efforts at a July science advisory board meeting.
- Focus on Pharma: FDA's Friedman Urges Better Supplier Oversight and Investment in Quality; Any Questions? Call Me, says FDA's Rothman Understaffing quality operations, failing to oversee suppliers and contractors, and blaming problems on mid-level QC and manufacturing managers, is not the answer. At a summer conference on GMP's, FDA's Rick Friedman and colleagues Barry Rothman and Steven Wolfgang, discussed the roots of current supply shortages, and emphasized the need for proactive communication with the Agency and its district offices. They also responded to criticism on the way the Agency's handling inspections.
- Focus on Pharma Episode 18: New Blueprints for Pharmaceutical Quality by Design Critics have questioned industry’s commitment to QbD, but a recent conference sponsored by NIPTE was well attended by industry, and presented an important new case study. Editor in Chief Agnes Shanley reviews the conference and NIPTE’s Prabir Basu shares his views.
- Podcast: Lean Labor: Applying Discipline to the Pharma Workforce Gregg Gordon’s new book, Lean Labor, looks at how Lean and continuous improvement efforts must go beyond manufacturing, materials, and machines and also address worker needs and productivity.
- Podcast: TruProcess: Next-Generation Near-Infrared (NIR) Spectrometer for Pharmaceutical Processing Duane Sword, Sr. Director, Thermo Scientific discusses the capabilities and technical attributes of TruProcess, an advanced NIR spectrometer for real-time blend analysis, drying and other process analytical technology (PAT) applications.
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Where Is the Outrage and the Shame? Do Americans really care more about see-through yoga pants than defective pills and implants?
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Aseptic Processing
Articles
Tools to Keep Pharma Fluids Flowing
Trouble Shooting Depth Filtration
Are Single-Use Standards Stuck? And Is That a Bad Thing?
Biopharma's Flexible Imperative
Bioprocess Filter 411: A Look at New Products for 2012
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White Papers
Rotary Tank Cleaning and Cost Savings
Cartridge Filtration in the Production of Pharma Grade Water
Six Key Predictors of Outsourcing Success In A Maturing RE & FM Outsourcing Market
Environmental Monitoring and Certification in Controlled Environments: Meeting Regulations and Achieving Effective Microbial Control for Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Manufacturers
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Automation & Control
cGMPs and Compliance
Articles
Can FDA Walk the Talk on Standards?
cGMP Judgment Day
Managing Risk: GMPs Are Not Enough
Managing Risk: GMPs are not Enough
Soaring Innovation, Grounded Goals
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White Papers
Ensuring Quality & Regulatory Compliance When Collaborating with a Service Provider
Evaluating Library Databases for Microbial Identification: Critical Aspects and Recommendations
Reducing Airborne Contaminants with Polymeric Floor Coverings
Competitiveness and Regulation: The FDA and the Future of America's Biomedical Industry
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Contract Manufacturing
Articles
Outsourcing Excellence in China and India
Managing Contract Partners: Risk Management
On-Demand Webcast: Managing Contract Partners: The Heat is On
Managing Contract Partners: Do We Have a Failure to Communicate?
Lean Outsourcing
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White Papers
Ensuring a Streamlined Approach for Nasal Spray Product Development & Manufacturing
Product & Process Transfer of a Low Solubility Compound with 6 year OTIF > 95%
Case Study: Five Year Trouble Free Manufacturing for Large Pharma Company
Pharmaceutical Outsourcing: Success Factors in Long-term Strategic Partnerships
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Drug Delivery
Articles
Biomanufacturing Morphs
Looking for Supply Chain Answers in 2011
Biotech Production: Planning, Scheduling and Throughput Analysis with a Combined Theory of Constraints, Lean and Simulation Approach
PDA 2010: Stopper Sensibility
Bringing More Science to Tableting
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White Papers
Avoiding No Man's Land: Potential Unintended Consequences of Follow-On Biologics
Best Practices in Demand and Inventory Planning
SAP Support of the Healthcare Supply Chain’s Ongoing Effort to Ensure Patient Safety and Drive Business Value
Residual Solvents by HT3 Headspace in Reference to USP 467 with a Comparison of Static Versus Dynamic Headspace Analysis
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Facilities & Support
Articles
Facilities of the Future
Portable Raman for Raw Material QC: What’s the ROI?
Sourcing Solutions for Environmental Monitoring: Ask the Right Questions
Are You Using A Sledgehammer to Monitor Temperature and Humidity?
Pfizer Newbridge Powers Up
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White Papers
GMP Warehouse Mapping: Step-by-Step Guidelines for Validating Life Science Storage Facilities
Special Report: Facilities of the Future - Agile and Flexible
Implementing 5S Workplace Organization Methodology Programs In Manufacturing Facilities
Six Key Predictors of Outsourcing Success In A Maturing RE & FM Outsourcing Market
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Fill & Finish
Articles
Implementing Disposable Cleanroom Apparel into the Manufacturing Process
Striving for a Better Prefilled Syringe
Split Decisions: Tablet Scoring Under More Scrutiny
NIPTE, IPEC Work to Standardize Excipient Properties Database
Optimizing Coating Parameters to Improve Tablet Performance by Means of Terahertz Pulsed Imaging (TPI)
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White Papers
Best Practices from Baxter BioPharma: Optimizing Lyophilization and the Empirical Path to Cycle Development
Cartridge Filtration in the Production of Pharma Grade Water
Increasing Tablet Press Productivity Using Segmented Turret Technology
Where and What to Test: From Purified Bulk Drug Substance to Sterile Liquid Final Drug Product
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Industry Developments
Articles
Beyond Benchmarks
Do Microwave Level Sensors Affect Cell Cultures?
We Are All Bostonians Now
Gaming: Good Medicine?
A Biotech Facility Transformed
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White Papers
Expert Insights on the Future of Anti-counterfeit Detection Technologies
Examining the Role of TOC Analyzers in the Pharmaceutical Laboratory
Expert Insights on the Future of Anti-counterfeit Detection Technologies
A Fact-Based View of the Workforce: Essential to M&A Success
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Operational Excellence & Lean Six Sigma
Packaging
Articles
Countdown to Cali-serialization
Strength in Unity: The Case for Global Supply Chain Standards
Vision System Helps to Increase the OEE on Pharma Packaging Line by 200%
Track and Trace Gains Prominence in the War Against Counterfeit Drugs
Split Decisions: Tablet Scoring Under More Scrutiny
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Process Operations
Articles
Tech Transfer Risk
Breaking the Biotech Bottleneck
Therapeutic Dose: How I was Shanghaied (and Surprised)
Ask the Right Stats Questions to Find the Best Statistics Tools
Holiday Inspiration from Takeda's EVP, Tadataka Yamada
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White Papers
Application Brief: Filtration Processes Applied in Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibody Production
Pharmaceutical & Medical Devices Industry Applications
Single-Use Depth-Filtration System
Raman Methods & Technology to Ensure Pharmaceutical Product & Process Quality Virtual Meeting
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Quality Assurance & Control
Unit Operations
Articles
Powder Flow: Identifying Powder’s Critical Quality Attributes & Relationship to Process Behavior
Calibration for Compliance
Quantifying Humidity's Impact on Powder Processing
Fundamentals Series: Dusts: Understanding and Managing the Risk
Tools to Keep Pharma Fluids Flowing
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White Papers
Calculating Total Uncertainty of Temperature Calibration with a Dry Block
Biopharmaceutical Process Scale Up: Get It Right
Examining the Role of TOC Analyzers in the Pharmaceutical Laboratory
The Safest Way to Calibrate: An Introduction to Intrinsically Safe Calibration
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Annual Product Reviews: How to Conduct an Effective Annual Product Quality Review
CAPA and Root Cause Analysis
Risk Management in Pharmaceutical Microbiology
Weighing and Dispensing: Do it Right
USP Updates
Flexibility by Design
Merck Stops Development of Parkinson’s Drug
PharmaManufacuring eBook: Holistic QbD
Kraemer Vibration Meter App
BW Tek - Raman Spectroscopy
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BW Tek - Raman Spectroscopy
Emerson Process Management's Chris Amstutz on PAT & QbD
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