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Materials
Laws & Effect: Streamlining for Combination Products: Please, May I Have Some More?
Sure, FDA has proposed to help speed their reviews of new products that combine categories, but will it really get out of its own way?
May 16, 2018
Laws & Effect
Adherence/Delivery
How Package Design Strategies Can Increase Patient Adherence
Containment, communication and transportation areas offer manufacturers ways to build patient adherence-increasing features.
August 8, 2017
The costs of nonadherence. (Infographic by Essentra.)
Packaging/Filling
Combining the Benefits of Custom and Off-the-shelf at interpack 2017
Highlights from interpack 2017 include an expedited machine design strategy, crowdsourced tablet coating innovation, and talk of Industry 4.0 in pharma.
May 5, 2017
groninger debuted its 'Business Line' machine series, where they’ve taken the best capabilities from existing, customized equipment and configured them into designed modules for expedited shipment times. Source: groninger
Adherence/Delivery
The Future of Pharma Packaging Looks Smart
Patient safety issues, counterfeit drugs could make the pharmaceutical industry a trailblazer in smart packaging.
April 20, 2017
Patient safety issues, counterfeit drugs could make the pharmaceutical industry a trailblazer in smart packaging.
Materials
Optimizing Production Tooling in Med Device Development
A new program from NyproMold helps medical device manufacturers bridge the gap from rapid-protyped parts to production-quality parts, accelerating new product introductions without sky-rocketing costs.
March 24, 2017
A 24-cavity continuous cam servo unscrewing threaded mold. Source: NyproMold
Materials
Laser Coding Helps to Deter Counterfeit Meds
Within the pharmaceutical industry, the quality of labeling and coding is paramount to ensure that the end user has access to clear, concise information and to help manufacturers be compliant with national and international labeling legislation.
March 17, 2017
Laser Coding Helps to Deter Counterfeit Meds
Materials
What To Expect in Medication Adherence Packaging
In this Q&A, Walter Berghahn, Executive Director, Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council, discusses packaging, technology, and cost issues in the ongoing effort to improve patient adherence to medication regimens.
January 18, 2017
Walter Berghahn, Executive Director, Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council
Materials
What To Expect in Medication Adherence Packaging
In this Q&A, Walter Berghahn, Executive Director, Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council, discusses packaging, technology, and cost issues in the ongoing effort to improve patient adherence to medication regimens.
January 18, 2017
Materials
Holograms Play Growing Role in Track and Trace Packaging
The technology can incorporate various data forms and product tracking information, as well as link on-pack product identification with supply chain management, market enforcement and forensic support services.
January 12, 2017
Holoptica has developed a new secure document verification and authentication product called DocVAULT that uses a new holographic feature called COMPASS.
Inspection
Serialization Virtual Reality Reader Delivers Unique Experience
With the first major serialization deadline less than a year away, the pharmaceutical industry is scrambling to not just comply with regulations, but to establish comprehensive traceability solutions without disrupting production.
December 6, 2016
A 3-D virtual reality reader from Optel Vision during PACK EXPO Intl. 2017.
Packaging/Filling
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“Innovation is not just one ‘aha’ idea from a great inventor. As a rule, a great invention was probably hatched in six or seven different places at a time”.–John Pittenger, Senior VP of Strategy and Innovation, Koch Industries Inc.
October 5, 2016
Author Ben Miyares
Materials
Medical Device Packaging Standards Expanding Globally
Standards aim to help manufacturers engineer devices to ensure safety and establish traceability ‘from womb to tomb.’ India and emerging markets may develop their own country-specific standards.
September 26, 2016
Vimal Kumar, Contributing Editor
Materials
Medical Devices and Packaging Demand Simultaneous Development
Sometimes the packaging of medical devices may be more challenging than the development of the device itself, reveals Dr. Jagdish Chaturvedi in this exclusive Q&A with Vimal Kumar, Healthcare Packaging’s Life Sciences from India Columnist.
June 14, 2016
Vimal Kumar, Contributing Editor
Materials
Thinking About Single-Use Technology
The opening of JHL Biotech’s facility in China is an opportunity to address the use of new biopharmaceutical manufacturing techniques.
June 2, 2016
Shown here is JHL Biotech’s new facility in Wuhan, China.
Materials
Can Patients Be Key to Solving Counterfeit Medicines?
Layered security measures, global standards and patient empowerment could help protect consumers and pharmaceutical manufacturers.
May 27, 2016
Layered security measures, global standards and patient empowerment could help protect consumers and pharmaceutical manufacturers.
Materials
Temperature-Controlled Packaging Demands Out-of-the-Box Thinking
Highly engineered and innovatively designed temperature-controlled packaging is necessary to gain the greatest cost benefit without compromising patient safety.
May 10, 2016
Temperature-controlled packaging is necessary for many products, including the human serum samples shown here.
Materials
The Internet of Things to Transform Healthcare Packaging
IoT-enabled packaging can track shipments and missed medications, improving supply chain workflow and the quality of life.
April 11, 2016
Vimal Kumar.
Materials
The War on Cancer
How logistics expertise, dedicated facilities and an integrated global network are teaming up to fight this killer.
March 31, 2016
John Menna, VP, Global Strategy for Healthcare Logistics, UPS.
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