Production Featured Articles
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COVID-19: 5 Steps To Achieve Situational Awareness In The Pharma Supply Chain
3/26/2020
To address the current worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, more controls are being imposed by cities, states, and countries. Trucks are being delayed at borders. Flights are being canceled. It is important to be capable of adapting work practices around this ever-changing situation.
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Your Pharmaceutical Capital Equipment Project Is Cancelled - Now What?
3/23/2020
Late-stage clinical trial failures, typically those in phase III before approval, result in huge valuation hits for the product owners. Unfortunately, these cancellations also usually result in some fair amount of exposure with regard to capital equipment purchased to manufacture that product at commercial scale. Replacement or back-up projects need to take the place of these projects as part of a robust product development strategy. But what does a project manager do with this brand new, surplus equipment?
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Providing Solutions At Fair Value: A Spray Drying Case Study
3/18/2020
Pharmaceutical companies need CDMO partners that provide solutions at fair value. This CMO has a long history of investing in new technologies with innovators to help their customers achieve their goals, and one recent example is the construction of a new Hastelloy spray-drying unit.
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Increasing Transparency And Confidence Through Real-Time Data Sharing
3/16/2020
A digital transformation of biomanufacturing offers a new path for continuous monitoring and optimization of process performance, which would ultimately lead to greater efficiency in drug production.
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Prepared For The Biopharma Market's Diverse Manufacturing Needs?
3/16/2020
Meeting the needs of the modern biomanufacturing landscape requires a combination of technology and digital solutions working together to effectively and efficiently meet your goals.
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Business Continuity & The Coronavirus: Are Your Pharma Operations At Risk?
3/4/2020
In the face of a pandemic, the value of a robust business continuity plan cannot be overstated. Organizations should actively evaluate those plans, focusing on service providers and partners.
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The 5 Pillars Of Clinical Trial Material Management
2/25/2020
Ensuring that enough study drug supplies are available at study sites is a requirement of every clinical trial. This article discusses five fundamental tools and techniques for effective planning, execution, monitoring, and inventory control of clinical trial material from the manufacturing, packaging, and distribution perspectives.
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Valentine’s Day Heartbreak: How To Let Your (Underperforming) CMO Partner Go
2/12/2020
We read many articles about building relationships in the business environment to improve transactions, fortify the supply chain, and increase profits. But, what if the CMO has a deteriorating plant that directly impacts your production, or personnel turnover creates an environment of never-ending deviations and senseless retraining?
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Expanding Sterile Crystallization Capabilities To Meet Rising Customer Demand
2/11/2020
Production of sterile powders requires specialized expertise and capabilities in sterile crystallization. Learn what your CDMO capabilities should be in order to deliver a quality product.
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Advanced Analytics And Situational Awareness For Manufacturing Data
2/7/2020
Advanced analytics is a key innovation for digital transformation. While many industrial companies are rolling out pilots and enterprise analytics projects, it is important for users to understand the features and capabilities of the analytics offerings.