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White Paper: Slim Down With Lean Quality
By Nikki Willett, Vice President of Marketing and Regulatory Affairs, Pilgrim Software
During these turbulent economic times, everybody is talking about slimming down and becoming lean. The top 16 pharmaceutical manufacturers spent over $90 billion to manufacture drugs but half is considered wasted money and an estimated 95% of activities in any pharmaceutical plant fail to add value to the product. However, inefficiency and deviations causing one minute of downtime can cost a manufacturer over $22,000. Continuous improvement programs taking aim at overly long cycle times, variability and waste may be doing so in a "silo mentality" preventing manufacturing functions in many companies from seeing the "big picture."
Companies that are implementing lean manufacturing programs to improve performance and reduce costs may be incapable without predictable processes built through effective quality management, thereby preventing many lean goals from being met. Untapped potential of quality process automation, which may only account for only 5-8% of total plant costs, can still have an enormous impact on efficiency and quality.
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