Pharma Expo Articles

  1. Taking the Long Road to Continuous Manufacturing 6/8/2016

    New manufacturing methods that cut processing steps, speed production, improve efficiency and increase quality and safety all sound like great ideas.

  2. Taking Serialization to the Next Step 4/6/2016

    Keeping up with regulatory requirements has kept the pharmaceutical industry at the forefront of track-and-trace technologies for years. Now, those regulations are set to get even more stringent on a global scale. With some key deadlines on the horizon, pharmaceutical manufacturers and their OEM suppliers are stepping up their serialization strategies.

  3. Data is the Driver For Small Pharma Manufacturers 1/21/2016

    When government oversight adds additional regulations and requirements for compliance, small pharma manufacturers often suffer the most, as they don’t have the capital resources in place to adapt to new directives.

  4. Flexibility, Productivity, And OEE 7/16/2015

    The latest equipment and services to help pharmaceutical manufacturers achieve maximum flexibility and OEE will be on display at Pharma EXPO 2015 (Las Vegas, September 28-30). 

  5. Best Practices To Advance End-Of-Line Packaging Operations 3/24/2015

    Implementing and maintaining a set of best practices is vital to a smooth end-of-line operation. By enhancing operational agility and flexibility, making equipment purchase decisions based on total cost of ownership (TCO), and forming partnerships with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), pharmaceutical manufacturers can improve this part of their packaging line.

  6. ISPE Releases Drug Shortages Prevention Plan At Annual Meeting 10/15/2014

    ISPE has released its Drug Shortages Prevention Plan at a media conference held during its annual meeting at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Present at the conference were new president and CEO John Bournas, strategic advisor John Berridge, and Drug Shortage Prevention Plan leaders Joe Famulare, Paul D'Eramo, Donna Gulbinski, and Sam Venugopal.

  7. New Technologies Drive Efficiencies In Drug Processing And Packaging 9/24/2014

    By Julie Ackerman, senior director PR and communications, PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies

    Pharmaceutical manufacturers continually seek solutions to speed products to market, ramp up production in times of outbreaks or increased demand, protect their brand integrity throughout the supply chain and streamline efficiencies to remain highly cost-effective. Of course, the critical need to ensure patient safety makes rigorous quality control and precision in pharmaceutical manufacturing incredibly important.

  8. Innovation In Drug Delivery To Meet Patient Needs 7/23/2014

    Today’s patients are being afforded access to life-saving medicines wherever they are, thanks to innovation in drug delivery methods and the efforts of medicine manufacturers that are shifting operations to produce easier-to-use delivery systems as well as medicines that are more customized to meet the needs of specific patient groups. 

  9. Robots In Pharma: More Than A Trend 5/8/2014

    By Tom Egan, Vice President of Industry Services, PMMI

    There is a quiet revolution taking place in global manufacturing today, and nowhere is it more evident than in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. According to a market report issued by PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, the use of robots in a number of industries has more than tripled in the past five years.

  10. Scaling Up For Biopharmaceuticals

    Biopharmaceuticals are at the forefront of medical research, and there is no doubt that demand is increasing for bio-based vaccines, hormone- and protein-based drugs, and gene- and cell-based therapies. Dallas, Texas-based research firm Market and Markets predicts the U.S. biopharmaceutical market will reach $144 billion by 2016, having shown 11.2 percent annual growth since 2009. However, the marked increases in development and commercialization, along with increases in production yield and efficiency, mean biopharmaceutical manufacturers face challenges in processing and packaging.