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Shire Goes to Camp
PharmaManufacturing.com
A one-week training program in the summer is paying dividends throughout the year.

Our Team of the Year: Wyeth CH Supplier Quality Excellence Team
PharmaManufacturing.com
Wyeth Consumer Healthcare’s Supplier Quality Excellence team has been selected as “Team of the Year” by Pharmaceutical Manufacturing magazine.

Podcast: Pfizer’s Michael Arnold Visits the Pharma “Mother Ship”
PharmaManufacturing.com
The place to be at ISPE was QbD—that is, the main discussion track at this year’s ISPE annual show in Boca Raton focused on developing QbD for investigational drug products. Pfizer’s global business supply head Michael Arnold witnessed it all, and shares his thoughts on China, FDA, Cost Reduction, and the “Mother Ship.”

Webcast: Compliant Manufacturing: Enabling Superior Operations Performance in the Pharmaceutical Industry
PharmaManufacturing.com
Learn why operational excellence is mission critical to compliant manufacturing in this webcast by SAP.

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White Papers: In Depth Research

How Effective Document Management Helps Accelerate Time to Market
Author: MasterControl
Posted: 09/22/2008
In the drug development process, time is indeed money. On the one hand, it takes a decade or longer to develop a new medicine. On the other hand, the patent for a new drug typically lasts 20 years. That leaves a manufacturer only a few years of market exclusivity before its patent expires and generic competitors enter the market. So it only makes sense to try to reduce delays in every phase of the process and speed up time to market. But how and where do you begin to save time? This white paper suggests that you start with the most basic activity—document management.

The Lean Workforce: Applying Lean Principles to Improve Workforce Management
Author: Kronos Inc.
Posted: 09/11/2008
A business system for organizing and managing product development, operations, suppliers, and customer relations. Business and other organizations use lean principles, practices, and tools to create precise customer value — goods and services with higher quality and fewer defects — with less human effort, less space, less capital, and less time than the traditional system of mass production.

Overall Labor Effectiveness (OLE) Achieving a Highly Effective Workforce
Author: Kronos Inc.
Posted: 04/25/2008
Help your manufacturing business increase productivity and profitability through Overall Labor Effectiveness (OLE), a Kronos-developed key performance indicator that measures your workforce. As a companion to OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness), OLE gives your company the ability to analyze the impact of direct and indirect workforce output so that you can take action to reduce costs and to identify productivity opportunities.

A Perspective on Standards
Author: Rockwell Automation
Posted: 12/17/2007
This white paper by Rockwell Automation features executive viewpoints from leading standards, trade and conformity assessment organizations on why standards and regulations are important to global business, and why industry should care.

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