Facilities Featured Articles

31. Pipe Connectivity Requirements For Hygienic Processing Systems 4/13/2016

    Hygienic processing sits at the heart of many manufacturing operations and maintaining the integrity of the process is of paramount importance to both plant owners and operators.

32. Strategies For Managing Equipment Surplus In Pharma 3/2/2016

    Manufacturers are looking for cost-effective, efficient solutions to manage surplus and idle equipment inventories without interrupting current development and manufacturing programs. 

33. Who's YOUR Yoda? What Star Wars Can Teach Us About GMP/Quality Mentoring 1/22/2016

    The newest round of Star Wars mania got me thinking about one of the themes in the movie series — mentoring.

34. Operating Aseptic Facilities: Technology Helps Eliminate Challenges 7/16/2015

    Bringing online, maintaining, and enhancing any aseptic processing facility presents numerous challenges. By using history as a guide, coupled with an understanding of today’s latest technology and applications, the path to being a more flexible operation in the future becomes much clearer. Staying ahead of the proverbial compliance-efficiency-cost curve, while maintaining flexibility, requires more detailed thought and planning.

35. Are Your Single-Use Sensor Tests Set Up To Fail? 7/9/2015

    When it comes to testing methods, experts warn that the same testing methods used on stainless-steel sensors should not be used for single-use sensors. If an attempt is being made to recreate results achieved with a traditional sensor, it’s very possible for those results to appear unfavorable with a single-use sensor.

36. Best Practices For Handling Potent APIs 7/7/2015

    This article addresses the issue of how to overcome the industry challenge of handling highly potent APIs using advanced technologies and techniques that can provide a solution.

37. Janssen's Fruitful Continuous Manufacturing Collaboration 6/24/2015

    Janssen Supply Chain’s ongoing partnership with the Rutgers University School of Engineering has produced valuable research and intelligence on continuous manufacturing processes that are enabling the pharma giant to effectively turn the concept into reality.

38. Why I'd Rather Take A Pill Made By Continuous Manufacturing 6/19/2015

    The pharmaceutical industry finally seems ready to embrace continuous manufacturing. Here’s why this shift will not only be good for business operations, but patients as well.

39. What's Really To Blame For Drug Shortages? 6/15/2015

    Prescription drug shortages continue to plague the industry and endanger patients. Most experts suggest quality and manufacturing issues are the cause, but are other (more troubling) market dynamics at play?

40. Facilities Management In BioPharma: Why Is It Important? 6/9/2015

    What is taken for granted until something goes wrong; accounts for the second highest spend (after salaries) by every organization on the planet; is essentially unknown as an industry; is a mystery job function to 99 percent of the working population, and yet, is absolutely critical to the activity and well-being of every single person who works, shops, travels, commutes or lives in public spaces?