In an article, From Industrial To Investment Strategies In The Life Science Sector, Life Science Leader magazine has a great recap of some of the issues pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers face in their manufacturing processes. The article highlights...
Operations & Business Management
Managing the Software Development Lifecycle for Validated Processes
For those in the biotech and pharmaceutical manufacturing industries, Emerson's Chris Amstutz has been sharing a great series of forum posts in the Emerson Exchange 365 community, Life Sciences track. Here are a few examples of some specific SAP to manufacturing...
Visualizing and Analyzing Real-Time Batch Data
As organizations have started to come to terms with the big data sets they have been collecting, they have started to look for strategies and tools to help them make decisions about what products to make and how to make them most efficiently. For highly regulated...
Interphex 2012 – Real-Time Release in Production Recipes
I noted in yesterday's post that two major industry conferences were happing this week—the pharmaceutical and biotech industry's Interphex show and the oil and gas industry's Offshore Technology Conference (OTC). I highlighted happenings from OTC in that post. Today...
Efficiently Managing Globally Dispersed Clinical Trial Documentation
I had a chance to connect with Emerson's Michalle Adkins, a Senior Consultant on the Global Life Sciences Industry Solutions team. She shared a story about a leading company, which conducts clinical trials for pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers. Their challenge...
Mistake Proofing Pharmaceutical Production and Documentation Processes
As a follow up to the post, Using Operational Excellence Techniques to Understand and Solve Business Problems, Emerson's Michalle Adkins shared a great story of one pharmaceutical manufacturer's path to justify technology to help their business objective to reduce...
Using Operational Excellence Techniques to Understand and Solve Business Problems
Pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers, like other process manufacturers, are under constant pressure to improve the performance of their business—product quality, safety, plant efficiency, and throughput. Emerson's Michalle Adkins, a senior consultant on the Life...
Managing the Pharmaceutical and Biotech Technology Transfer Process
In a Research and Markets report, Technology Transfer Strategies - A Guide to Maximizing Returns Within the Pharmaceutical and Biopharmaceutical Industries, the authors note: The efficient and effective transfer of new technologies is widely recognized as being a key...
Faster Product Releases with PAT Methods in Production Recipes
This week, the International Foundation Process Analytical Chemistry (IFPAC) is holding their 26th international forum and exhibition in Baltimore, Maryland USA. At this event, Emerson's Chris Amstutz, Life Sciences industry consulting team director, gave a...
Continuous Process Verification per FDA Process Validation Guidance
It was just about a year ago that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration published their Guidance for Industry - Process Validation: General Principles and Practices. I caught up with Emerson's Heather Schwalje, a senior consultant on the Life Sciences industry team....
Chemical Manufacturing Moving to Ends of the Spectrum
The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), a global professional membership organization for people who have an interest in and experience in chemical engineering, triennially holds an event, Advances in Process Control 9 (APC 9). This year's event will be...
Live John Berra WBF Keynote – Small Victories Mean Big Improvements
The WBF - The Organization for Production Technology is holding their annual North American conference this week with the theme, Sharpening the Tools of Manufacturing. John Berra, Chairman Emerson Process Management (Retired) will be delivering the keynote...
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