Read, Learn, Innovate: Top Blog Posts from January 2022

Continuous processing is not new to the pharmaceutical industry. Today, the majority of major pharmaceutical companies at least consider continuous processes when developing new small-molecule entities. In contrast, the biopharmaceutical industry has been slow to adopt continuous platforms, particularly related to high volume processes. This reticence can be attributed to a number of reasons. 

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Over the past decade, companies worldwide have faced increased scrutiny from consumers, investors, and regulators over how they treat the environment. They are questioned about where and how they source raw materials, the packaging they use, power consumption levels, and waste generated. Many companies understand these concerns and have taken active steps to be sustainable.

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Knowledge Management (KM) is a discipline (akin to Quality Risk Management (QRM) or Lean Six Sigma) that focuses on how organizations create, manage, use, and share knowledge. The publication of ICH Q10 in 2008 saw the formal designation of KM as a key enabler for an effective Pharmaceutical Quality System (PQS), along with QRM. Since then, the industry has acknowledged the importance of managing knowledge across the lifecycle to enhance process understanding, improve decision making, and enable more robust risk management.

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When most people hear “Facility of the Future,” they immediately think about robots, automation, virtual reality, or logging in with a Facebook account, security issues aside. However, when I hear “Facility of the Future,” I think of lean manufacturing and flexibility.

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Featured in this edition of the Pharmaceutical Engineering® Online Reading Roundup are Online Exclusives. These are PE articles published exclusively on the website; you can always find them here. Here is a selection from the first two years of Online Exclusives on sustainability, drug shortages, and knowledge management.

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