Manufacturing

The Impact of Implementing Safety Features in Pharmaceutical Packaging and Labelling

Every year over millions of dollars are being spent to develop drugs that not only provide the required patient treatment but are also safe for human consumption in a set of forms With huge investments putin at the stage of manufacturing are companies set to take up equivalent responsibility in following safety standards while marketing them Severa...

Responding to the Needs of an Evolving Industry

In todays competitive healthcare market pharmaceutical and medical manufacturers rely on partners with a deep understanding of not only the industrys challenges and requirements but also of its opportunities and promise for growth The pharma market is everevolving and everchanging Companies have the responsibility to provide the appropriate answers...

Trends in Pharmaceutical Packaging and Delivery

The global pharmaceutical market is evolving driven by greater international regulatory requirements for improved quality as well as local healthcare policy such as the expansion of universal health coverage for Chinas nearly billion citizens launched in its annual spending projected to grow about per cent in both and according to Deloitte rese...

Immunogenicity of Protein Biotherapeutics

The development of recombinant DNA technology has dramatically increased the use of protein biotherapeutics such as antibodies hormones and enzymes These are useful in the treatment of a wide range of diseases including cancerous conditions infections diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis The relative success of these new drugs has stimulated the devel...

Towards the Operationalisation of Production Systems

Simultaneously increasing effectiveness and efficiency

Historic development of contemporary production systems Although the Toyota Production System TPS was developed as a specific production model for Toyotas unique circumstances in the s such as lack of natural resources lifetime employment practices enterprise unions need for an increased variety of products in smaller quantities Sugimori et al Lee...

Innovation Challenges in Manufacturing

Regulatory agencies in charge of protecting the population against health risks have a large burden divided mainly between two large areas The first is a direct consequence of the mission that is to effectively protect the population against health risks across the diverse industrial sectors and activities which might generate risks This implies th...

Modularisation in Biologics Manufacturing

Recent trends and developments

Design construction and installation of complete modular production facilities for pharmaceuticals and biopharmaceuticals have in recent years been widely accepted According to Gilroy and Martini modular construction of a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility refers to construction of all or part of a new or renovated facility built at a remote loc...

Antibody Drug Conjugates in Reducing Disease Burden

Immense Promise with Some Challenges

The global market for oncology drugs has seen a steady growth in recent years with cancer being the leading area of healthcare spending Market estimates show that in the global spending on oncology drugs reached US billion including supportive care growing at a CAGR of per cent in the period from This trend is expected to continue in to wher...

Unlocking the value

PLM solution in packaging and labelling

Effective package management is an increasingly critical capability for pharmaceutical companies Pressure to maximise the potential of current product portfolios due to thin pipelines has now propelled several companies to enhance packaging to add more value to the consumer as well as to reduce Cost of Goods Sold COGS Better packaging brings benefi...

Using Chemometrics in PAT

Investigating data from the process

Industry of today is generating large amount of data Data that comes from raw materials excipients media and the process Most processes consist of a series of operations steps and are also equipped with instrumentations collecting parameters as the process is in operation The chemometrical analysis of the numerous data collected from such processes...