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Pharmaceutical Consulting May Get Boost from BMI's Fourth-Quarter Updates

Pharmaceutical consulting, according to the latest estimates from the Business Monitor International's Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare Business Environment Ratings, may be positioned to play an increasingly valuable role over the next five years. Projections... Read >

Lean Manufacturing Works for Pfizer in Ireland

Lean manufacturing works, not only for manufacturing processes, but also in quality control labs. Laboratories are, obviously, very different from manufacturing environments and require specific adaptations of the generic lean approach. With the proper ad... Read >

Lean Manufacturing Implementation – The Right Emphases for Right Thinking

A pharmaceutical company's lean manufacturing implementation can be either fairly seamless and efficient or met with resistance and merely partial. A lot of it has to do with perceptions and attitudes and the right implementation emphases. And these are t... Read >

Pharmaceutical Consultants - An Invaluable Asset in a Rapidly Changing Industry

When market conditions, methods of manufacture and testing, and technology remain virtually unchanged for long periods, companies in an industry can generally manage quite well doing everything in-house. But when an industry finds itself in the throes of ... Read >

Lean Manufacturing Techniques Transform the Traditional Approach

Pharmaceutical manufacturing has traditionally been batch oriented and thus fairly discontinuous in the end-to-end "process." But lean manufacturing techniques are beginning to transform the traditional for pharmaceutical companies willing to embrace and ... Read >

Life Sciences Consulting - Where Relationships Count

A relatively new development in the life sciences industry is the growing use of contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs). In response to decreasing profit margins, continuing patent expirations, and the concomitant diminishing product pipelines, compa... Read >

PAT and Lean Manufacturing in Pharma

When it comes to process and quality control, the pharmaceutical industry has historically taken a reactive approach. When something broke, then it was fixed-that is, when a product-quality issue arose, only then was it addressed. Now, however, that's cha... Read >

Pharmaceutical Consulting the Smart Way

Expenses surrounding R&D, production, regulatory compliance, marketing, and product distribution continue to increase. The cost of medication and various kinds of specialized health services continues to rise. In addition, the number of blockbuster drugs ... Read >

What is Driving the Striving Toward Lean Manufacturing Implementation

Formerly within the pharmaceutical industry, not a lot of thought was given to production and the supply chain. As long as market demand was met with quality, compliant products, production was generally ignored as an area that could lend itself to gainin... Read >