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Industry News: Page 225
Workforce
160 Women in Manufacturing honored
The Manufacturing Institute seeks to address the skills gap by inspiring the next generation with stories of manufacturing leadership and accomplishment.
January 16, 2014
Pharmaceuticals
Counterfeit med market grows worldwide
DQSA to help address global counterfeit drug market, recently estimated at more than $430 billion annually by the WHO.
January 14, 2014
Materials
HealthPack announces 2014 agenda
Medtronic’s Jackie Elkin will open the March 11-13 event in Albuquerque with a keynote address on unique product identification and medical device packaging.
January 13, 2014
Pharmaceuticals
Avoid these EPCIS interoperability pitfalls
One of the greatest challenges facing the pharmaceutical supply chain is hooking up multiple ERP systems and business applications across the supply chain, spanning the manufacturer, contract packager, wholesaler/distributor, and pharmacies. Ensuring interoperability of the data across the supply chain is a challenge, even if all parties adopt GS1’s EPCIS standard.
January 12, 2014
Pharmaceuticals
Issues with master data
Trading partners with whom you exchange EPCIS event data will request what is known as “supply chain master data” about your products, company, and locations that will be referenced in EPCIS events. This data takes two basic forms.
January 11, 2014
Pharmaceuticals
Case study: Contract packager builds its own serialization solution
CMO/CPOs faced with a global client base, obligations to meet multiple and varied country regulations, and the insane complexity of integrating with multiple customers would do well to heed the story of Almac Pharma Services.
January 10, 2014
Pharmaceuticals
Five implementation tips for CMO/CPOs
One of the biggest challenges that CMO/CPOs will face when it comes to serializing their lines is how to sort through the complexity of integrating their internal serialization solution at the line and plant level with their customers’ business systems.
January 10, 2014
Pharmaceuticals
Determining goals and metrics for pilot testing
There are two schools of thought when it comes to pilot testing.
January 10, 2014
Pharmaceuticals
How do you like your FDA?
Would lower government burdens on industry provide sufficient protection for the public?
January 9, 2014
Traceability/Serialization
Contract manufacturing and contract packaging strategic considerations
It’s become a fact of life that the North American pharmaceutical industry, while still firmly rooted in manufacturing of its own products, also makes heavy use of outsourcing to contract manufacturing/contract packaging organizations.
January 8, 2014
Robotics/Automation
Line- and plant-level software implications
While GS1’s Electronic Product Code Information Services (EPCIS) protocol standardizes the way serialization data is transmitted between trading partners, there is no such standard for communicating between a company’s internal serialization solution and its Manufacturing Execution System (MES), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems such as SAP, and ERP modules that handle serial number management (such as Aii in the case of SAP). And therein lies the rub.
January 8, 2014
Pharmaceuticals
Preventing counterfeit e-pedigree data
Although many people may think of serialization and e-pedigree as the industry’s final checkmate in the counterfeit arms race, nothing could be further from the truth.
January 7, 2014
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