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Planning for a Talented Workforce: Building a Staffing Plan for New or Expanding GMP Facilities
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Planning for a Talented Workforce: Building a Staffing Plan for New or Expanding GMP Facilities

Let’s contrast two very real scenarios: You are responsible for bringing a new GMP facility or line to full-scale production. Your board or shareholders expect...

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Moving the Goalposts?
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Moving the Goalposts?

Can a standard Corporate Scoring Framework be applied across the spectrum of Quality Risk Management? (more…)

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Int’l Women’s Day: An Open Letter to my Most Inspirational Colleague
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Int’l Women’s Day: An Open Letter to my Most Inspirational Colleague

Have I ever told you how much I want to be just like you? I am so thankful for the opportunity to work alongside the...

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In Review: Facilities of the Future Conference
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In Review: Facilities of the Future Conference

ISPE held its second Facilities of the Future conference.  The conference brought together over 160 professionals from pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturing, equipment suppliers, academics, and...

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Data Centers are Constantly Evolving
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Data Centers are Constantly Evolving

Growing up, we did not have a home computer in my family until I was 11 years old. We were fortunate enough that my momma...

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The Low Down on a New Packaging Serialization Standard
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The Low Down on a New Packaging Serialization Standard

Nine vendors and one end user recently conducted pilot tests to develop, evaluate, and validate a new serialization standard, PSS 1.0, officially released in November...

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Applying Six Sigma Principles to Operations: The Voice of the Customer
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Applying Six Sigma Principles to Operations: The Voice of the Customer

What is the “Voice of The Customer”? Is it only external customers? The end users? What about internal customers? Do they have a “voice” as...

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Applying Six Sigma Principles to Client Operations: Waste
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Applying Six Sigma Principles to Client Operations: Waste

Waste shows up in many forms and in all projects. This happens regardless of industry, product, or service being provided. Nothing is perfect, no matter...

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Applying Six Sigma Principles to Operations: The Cost of Poor Quality
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Applying Six Sigma Principles to Operations: The Cost of Poor Quality

The principles and methodology of Six Sigma are applicable to multiple industries and processes. In all cases, the primary reason these principles are implemented is...

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Implementing USP Visual Inspection Requirements
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Implementing USP Visual Inspection Requirements

The word “visible” in the expression, Visual Inspection of Parenteral Products, has no meaning unless the viewing conditions are specified.  (more…)

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Key Takeaways from the 2017 ISPE Annual Meeting
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Key Takeaways from the 2017 ISPE Annual Meeting

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