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Reducing waste with lean delivery in facility design and construction

Applying a lean delivery approach to the design and construction of new facilities can reduce waste, lower costs and improve speed to market.

9 critical considerations for aseptic food processing

Whether you’re refreshing your brand, targeting new consumers, or expanding your product line, incorporating aseptic food processing into your manufacturing can significantly enhance your operations.

Four technologies that are changing lab safety

4 technologies that are changing lab safety

Lab safety is constantly in motion. Every industry is under pressure to continually audit their equipment and make decisions about when and how to install the latest solutions—from robotic packaging systems in the food + beverage industry to artificial-intelligence-enabled analytical tools in pharmaceutical research labs.

Chemistry professor demonstrating use of equipment to two students in a modern teaching laboratory

5 design concepts for teaching laboratory success

Best practices and lessons learned from the classroom.

How to incorporate highly potent drug products into your facility

There are many benefits to adding highly potent drug products to your portfolio, including increasing demand and generating potentially higher profit margins. Making the decision to incorporate highly potent drug products into your manufacturing facility can be a challenging process.

NextGen Now: Delivering tomorrow’s facilities today

If cell and gene therapy products are to successfully reach patients and deliver transformative cures, then the industry will need more facilities capable of manufacturing them.

An artistic portrayal of adeno-associated viral vectors used in gene therapy manufacture

Advanced therapy medicinal product facilities through the eyes of a process architect

Advanced therapy medicinal product (ATMP) companies are ushering in a new frontier of medicine and technologies poised to revolutionize human health, but are ATMP facilities keeping up? The industry is advancing at such a rapid pace that these companies are faced with vast new complexities when developing and manufacturing their products.

A large chiller outside, which could be made more efficient with an ice storage system

How biopharma facilities can use ice in a glycol chiller system

Ice storage, coupled with a glycol chiller, can provide benefits that other options can’t.

Oral solid dose tablets on a continuous manufacturing line

Continuous OSD manufacturing—a technology update

Continuous oral solid dosage manufacturing is a transformational processing platform that is here today and is here to stay. Although the industry is working on harmonization and some level of standardization of the platforms, continuous manufacturing is not a one-size-fits all offering.

Closing the deal: Understanding when to close your process

When to close your pharmaceutical process

Too often, the term “closed process” is thrown around without an understanding of the salient issues. Pharmaceutical process closure can certainly provide many benefits, but there are various impacts and requirements depending on the ultimate goal and the specific process you are trying to close.

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