Production Featured Articles

  1. 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.

  2. Selection Criteria for Ribbon, Vertical, or Tumble Blenders 2/4/2020

    Among solid-solid blending systems, the three most common types are the horizontal ribbon blender, the cone screw vertical blender and the tumble blender. Aside from level of shear or ‘gentleness’, other factors help determine which type of blender will work most efficiently in a certain application. Following are some things to consider when choosing your blender.

  3. Choosing A CDMO: If You Can’t Answer 'Yes' To These 3 Questions, Walk Away 1/30/2020

    Choosing the right CDMO is the most important factor in the success of drug product and process development, particularly for small and virtual companies. To choose the right CDMO, you must look past the opening presentation, the facility walk-throughs, and even the compliance audit.

  4. Recommendations For Managing Complexity In Biopharma Operations 1/21/2020

    There's a tendency in biopharma operations to make things more complex than they need to be. More content in an SOP, additional signatures, new forms, and control loops don't necessarily equate to better.

  5. A Biopharma Year In Review — And A Look Ahead To 2020 12/16/2019

    The industry has shown surprising resilience and consistency, emerging relatively unscathed from the recession at the beginning of the past decade. Capacity and expansion were relatively unaffected and continue to draw investors seeking healthy returns and a recession-resistant risk profile.

  6. Growing With A Flexible, Collaborative CDMO 11/20/2019

    Choosing a CDMO that is agile, innovative, and exhibits a willingness to invest in new equipment, infrastructure and services will allow the innovator company and the CDMO to grow together.

  7. Pigeons In The Plant: 10 Real-Life Pharma Facility Blunders (And How To Avoid Them) 11/13/2019

    There are situations we have come across where we really scratch our heads and say, “What did they just do, and what were they thinking?” This article describes a series of events and activities that we have seen that are at once amusing, baffling, and revealing of the flaws in our industry.

  8. What Can We Learn From Compounding Pharmacies Producing Small Parenteral Batches? 11/11/2019

    Does the pharmaceutical industry want to sit on the sidelines while its products are being manipulated and modified — a danger? Or will the industry provide its products in a manner or with the tools that will enable compounding pharmacies to succeed in delivering a safe and effective drug to the patient — an opportunity?

  9. Can You Trust A Machine For Downstream Bioprocess Buffer Preparation? 11/8/2019

    Is automated buffer preparation a solution to the dilemma of balancing increased production capacity against limited footprint expansion alternatives?

  10. 6 Critical Considerations For Bioprocess Lab Equipment Selection 10/31/2019

    As pharma requires more open and flexible systems, special attention should be paid to selection criteria and how bioprocess equipment meets present and future requirements.