ARTICLES BY TOBIAS KUNERS OF KOENDERS

• The 5-Step Checklist For A More Mature, Robust Quality Management System

  8/20/2021

  Whether you are preparing for a pre-approval inspection, have the corporate desire for continuous inspection readiness, or are engaged in a LEAN initiative to clean up and strengthen your quality management system (QMS), further maturing your QMS can be helpful to ensuring a robust, comprehensive, and compliant QMS.

• Quality Management Review — Benchmarking Quantitatively!

  1/29/2021

  Typically, when the cost of quality is depicted, it is split into “cost of control” and “cost of failure of control.” At the next level of detail, the costs of prevention and appraisal appear on one side and the costs of internal failure and external failure on the other side. How to interpret and implement these buckets at the tactical level is often left to personal imagination.

• Is It Time To Stop Using Mean Kinetic Temperature (MKT) In Pharma Storage & Transport?

  12/28/2020

  MKT continues to be proposed in USP chapters <659> and <1079> and is presented as an isothermal storage temperature that simulates the non-isothermal effects of storage temperature variation. However, there is too little or no emphasis on the physics or chemistry behind the impact of temperature excursions on biological drug products and other contemporary drugs.

• Pharmaceutical Transport Validation — Where To Begin?

  9/6/2019

  This article provides a road map for transport validation, which is used to qualify packaging for the entire product supply chain. When transport validation is done incompletely, poorly, or not at all, it can result in off-label drugs that are potentially harmful to patients.

• Bio/Pharma Maintenance 4.0: How To Get Started

  7/5/2019

  Part 1 of this two-part series looked at the core aspects of Maintenance 4.0 and outlined a comprehensive maintenance process flow. In this second part, we will discuss how to get started with Maintenance 4.0, along with how to develop benchmark metrics that allow assessment of the gap between the current and desired states.

• Maintenance 4.0 – The Next Revolution In Bio/Pharma Manufacturing

  6/21/2019

  The next stage in maintenance management, Maintenance 4.0, is to go beyond predictive to the initial stage of an asset — commissioning the assets and deploying the same tools and techniques to set the measures within the design specification from the beginning onward, and using indicative measures to keep the asset in its original design specification.

• An Introduction To Centerlining For Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing

  4/15/2019

  Many pharma companies struggle to strike the right balance between enough preventative maintenance and not too much corrective maintenance for manufacturing equipment, and to achieve that balance at a reasonable cost. One method known to drive the preventative/corrective ratio in favor of preventative maintenance is centerlining.