The push for more sustainable operations around the globe has touched nearly every industry, and the life sciences are no exception. Manufacturing teams now need to carefully manage waste, energy use, water use, and emissions on top of all their existing...
As the landscape of pharmaceutical manufacturing has changed in the last few years, one exciting shift has a distinct possibility of being a game changer in coming decades. Regulatory agencies have increasingly begun to recognize the importance of automation...
Most people have heard the adage that, “COVID changed everything.” However, few people, when presented with that idea, think that any of those changes were positive. But we often forget that in the span of eight short months, the world saw a wide array of innovators...
To know where you’re going, you have to know where you are, and operating a life sciences manufacturing facility is no exception. Pharmaceutical processors regularly have to take stock of their technological capacity to keep a finger on the pulse of the four main...
Recently, as cell and gene therapies have begun to emerge in the life sciences manufacturing landscape, an important concept has begun to draw attention: traceability. However, it is important to remember that traceability was critical long before today’s most...
It can be hard to keep up with the many rapid changes occurring in the life sciences industry these days. In an effort to embrace improved speed to market, sustainability, and quality, life sciences manufacturers are employing a wide range of software and technologies...
In just the last 10 years, biopharmaceutical supply chains have changed dramatically. The single-source manufacturing model is becoming much rarer, making way for multi-enterprise manufacturing collaborations and partnerships to better meet the changing needs of the...
The days of maintaining paper records across the life sciences development and production pipeline are gone. Today’s regulatory requirements, not to mention the complexity of new treatments, requires organization that can only be provided electronically. However,...
There can be little question that Industry 4.0 technologies are reshaping the way life sciences companies operate. In the wake of the rapid development of vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic, more facilities than ever are being “born digital.” Some of these...
One of the key stages delaying and increasing costs in life sciences projects is equipment validation. In fact, it is one of the elements of project completion that project teams are most eager to compress because the value of every incremental improvement is so...
There is little doubt that the recent explosion in available cloud technologies has been a boon for manufacturing across a wide array of industries. Pharmaceutical manufacturers are no exception, and organizations are now carefully considering where leveraging cloud...
Industry is seeing a shift to single-use biopharmaceutical manufacturing methods, prompting a need for new pH measurement approaches to overcome instrumentation challenges. Monitoring and historizing the pH of a process media batch, and often using this value for...
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