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How to improve your manufacturing efficiency: Value stream mapping 101

Even when manufacturing budgets tighten, there are still ways to improve operations and increase throughput, quality, and speed to market. Here’s your guide to getting there with value stream mapping.

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4 steps to protect your facility from combustible dust

4 steps to protect your facility from combustible dust

In life sciences manufacturing, safety in handling bulk powders and combustible dust can fall through the cracks. The bottom line? As per fire and building codes, if your manufacturing process generates dust, you must perform a dust hazard analysis to establish whether you’re dealing with a fire or explosion hazard. If you are, you need to know how to mitigate the risk throughout your facility.

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Lighting design for life sciences facilities

Life sciences facilities are unique workspaces that combine office space with highly specialized laboratory, research, and manufacturing areas. In this article, we explore the many roles lighting design plays to enhance the variety of activities that take place at these innovative companies—while at the same time improving energy efficiency and supporting employee wellness.

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Industry 4.0: Examples and benefits for manufacturing

Industry 4.0 examples to better understand what Industry 4.0 is and how it can bring value to your manufacturing operations.

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7 human-centric design principles to improve the life science workplace

7 human-centric design principles to improve the life science workplace

Whether you’re leasing a lab space or building an all-new drug manufacturing facility, you’ll see a greater return on your capital investment when you deliver a workplace that fits the needs of your employees. That’s the principle behind human-centric workplace design, and it’s the key to a more resilient, flexible, and productive life science facility.

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Capital Procurement Strategy: Best Practices Amidst Supply Chain Volatility

Capital Procurement Strategy: Best Practices Amidst Supply Chain Volatility

Capital projects driven by strict schedules rely on gathering the right materials, trades, and technology at the right time. But today’s volatile market conditions can impact pricing and availability, leading to long lead times and frustrating delays.

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process architecture

An introduction to process architecture for the life sciences

Process architecture is a specialized area of architecture that leverages design principles with process expertise and regulatory knowledge. Here’s why it’s essential for life sciences facilities.

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Contextual design: how life science architects create environments that foster innovation

Contextual design: how life science architects create environments that foster innovation

Architects who envision and develop efficient and innovative life science facilities must specialize not only in the fundamentals of any architecture project—creating a building that is safe, sustainable and aesthetically pleasing—but also in the unique considerations and constraints inherent to an industry on which lives depend.

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The control philosophy: what it is, how it works, and why every manufacturer should have one

A control philosophy defines your organization’s vision for digitalization and helps your team align current and future technology-related decisions with that vision.

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The difference between aseptic processing and terminal sterilization

The difference between aseptic processing and terminal sterilization

Both aseptic processing and terminal sterilization remove contamination from drug products, but the two methods are not the same, and they are not interchangeable.

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