Yesterday we highlighted advancements in exception management technology for pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturers. Exception management is one element in an electronic batch record (EBR). Other elements for the EBR which also have high data integrity...
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Improving Batch Manufacturing Quality Review Cycle Time
Exceptions in batch manufacturing processes are the deviations that occur outside the prescribed specifications. For pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturers, quality and manufacturing personnel must review these exceptions. Traditionally, this quality...
Identify and Resolve Cell Therapy Batch Manufacturing Exceptions
We conclude our series on improving cell therapy manufacturing with a closer look at the review by exception process. In the manufacturing process of cell therapeutics, product cycle times are extremely short and any exceptions occurring during the production process...
Designing and Building Pharmaceutical and Biotech Smart Factories
Pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers seek to improve both project and operational performance through implementation of smart factory technology. The smart factory fits right into the S95 enterprise automation model and provides out-of-box manufacturing...
Digital Transformation to Paperless Production
Manufacturing processes have long been paper-based with log entries, initialing, signoffs and other transactions to manually record. While automation systems have captured some of this manual recordkeeping, they have not been able to capture everything. In batch...
Reducing Execution Errors in Cell Therapeutics Manufacturing
In an earlier post, Managing the Chain of Identity in Cell Therapeutics Manufacturing, we highlighted how the manufacturing process of these cell therapies must be performed with absolute accuracy the first time since each batch is produced for a specific patient....
Managing the Chain of Identity in Cell Therapeutics Manufacturing
Medicines produced by pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers are manufactured in many ways. One particular type of treatment, cell therapy, is defined as: …the transplantation of human or animal cells to replace or repair damaged tissue. From a manufacturing...
Improving Batch Manufacturing Workflows and Recordkeeping
The pharmaceutical and biotechnology manufacturing industries are challenged with errors in manual entries in the production process, getting batches right the first time, reaching final signoff for batch release, and managing the data accumulated throughout the...
Improving Raw Material Management Productivity
For manufacturers in highly-regulated industries, such as pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturing, it is critical to keep track of raw materials as part of the production records. To minimize or avoid waste, it's also important to use the first-to-expire...
Challenge of Designing PCS-Driven MES Architectures for a Greenfield Facility
Author: Jonathan Lustri I have previously written about a design strategy where the process control system (PCS) is the primary system driving all procedural batch activity within a pharmaceutical process. In this architecture, the PCS ISA-88 procedural model must...
Best Practices Specifying MES Workflows for Life Sciences Projects
Author: Jonathan Lustri Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Life Sciences projects can be costly and be a challenge to keep in control. The biggest contributor to these challenges are the defining and design of manufacturing workflows. A Workflow is an MES procedural...
Integrating Single Use Equipment More Easily with Control and Manufacturing Execution Systems
One of the trends in the biopharmaceutical industries that have taken root over the past decade and a half is the use of single-use, disposable equipment in the manufacturing process. Prior to their use, these facilities relied on inflexible, hard-piped equipment. An...
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