Critical Environments Columns

  1. How Modular Facility Design Can Accelerate GMP Facility Construction 5/20/2025

    Autolus Therapeutics' COO talks about the accelerated construction of the company's cell therapy manufacturing facility, The Nucleus.

  2. How Modeling Predicts Bottlenecks In Takeda's Multimodal Facilities 5/20/2025

    A functional simulation requires many manual inputs, including data smoothing, vendor collaboration, and even direct communication with tenured employees who know the job best.

  3. Proper Care And Handling Of Coupons Used For Swab And Rinse Recovery Studies For Total Organic Carbon Analysis 5/6/2025

    Surrogate surfaces, or “coupons”, are used to simulate pharmaceutical manufacturing surfaces or medical devices for the performance of swab and rinse recovery studies. Experts from The Center for Pharmaceutical Cleaning Innovation provide insights for proper care and handling.

  4. A Facilities Expert Answers Audience Questions On Construction And Validation 5/5/2025

    Bioprocessing facility expert Herman Bozenhardt responds to some unanswered audience questions from a Pharmaceutical Online Live event on facility design and validation.

  5. Using Virtual Reality To Enhance Aseptic Contamination Control 5/1/2025

    Technologies such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), or mixed reality can help alleviate some of the long-standing issues in aseptic contamination control. Here's how.

  6. Lean Thinking For Pharma — Flow Without Facility Upheaval 4/28/2025

    Lean offers manufacturers a host of efficiencies, but they don't all work for GMP. Here are some ideas for translating best practices for a highly-regulated industry.

  7. Experts' Advice On Facility Design And Construction 4/24/2025

    This is a review of the Pharmaceutical Online Live event “Facility Design And Validation Considerations For Drug Manufacturers," which featured industry experts Erich Bozenhardt and Herman Bozenhardt, as well as process architect Fred Grossfeld.

  8. Retrofitting Facilities For Modern Bioprocessing And Pharma Production 3/11/2025

    The U.K. National Health Service is developing a former warehouse into a multi-modal aseptic manufacturing hub. The project's production head talks pros, cons, and strategy.

  9. Strengthening Shop-Floor QA From The Ground Up 2/24/2025

    Quality is created where and when manufacturing happens, not later through inspection. This approach integrates the QA function into daily production operations.

  10. Consumables Are Leading The Cleanroom Market — Here's Why 2/19/2025

    As the industry expands, so, too does demand for PPE. This market analysis looks at the trends in consumables and other cleanroom technology used to make medicine.