2017 Facility of the Year Awards Overall Winner

ISPE has announced Eli Lilly and Company as the Overall Winner of the 2017 Facility of the Year Awards (FOYA) program at ISPE’s Annual Meeting & Expo in San Diego, California.

Eli Lilly was awarded for their Continuous Direct Compression Manufacturing Kits 2 & 3 project in Indianapolis, Indiana and Carolina, Puerto Rico. Their primary goal was to quickly build a network of innovative, state-of-the-art GMP oral solid dosage (OSD) facilities to deliver new advanced therapies to patients. Each of the three OSD installations were built sequentially in existing operating facilities at three separate geographic sites.

Process and facility replication was identified early in the project as a key enabler to improve technical transfers from development to manufacturing, as well as compress the schedule, and create budget efficiencies to achieve swift commercialization. As a result, the delivery schedule for each subsequent project continued to improve from the baseline case and millions of dollars were saved from replication and learning.

Their forward-thinking approach brought on the implementation of Continuous Direct Compression (CDC) Process and other process innovations in their OSD facilities across their manufacturing network—making them the only company with multiple, replicated, and operational CDC sites.

This combination of technology and process understanding along with identical standardized production platforms is what makes this project the winner of the 2017 Facility of the Year Awards Overall Winner.

Learn more about Eli Lilly’s award-winning facility and the Facility of the Year Awards program.