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Labeling/Printing
How printer availability helps drive packaging line OEE and uptime
Product/package printers can help determine root causes of line performance issues and point the way to corrective actions.
November 14, 2013
For a packaging operation, the graph in Figure 1 plots costs per year for each additional 0.1% of unplanned downtime, from 100% uptime at the right side to 99.5% uptime at the left. “High,” “Medium,” and “Low” refer to the hours that the packaging equipment is expected to be up and running and the estimated costs per hour of unplanned downtime: High = 24 hr/day, 7 days/wk, 50 wk/yr; $10,000/hr of unplanned downtime Medium = 16 hr/day, 7 days/wk, 50 wk/yr; $7,500/hr of unplanned downtime Low = 8 hr/day, 5 days/wk, 50 wk/yr; $5,000/hr of unplanned downtime
Adherence/Delivery
Turning a package into a 'content channel'
Newly launched smartphone and tablet app aims to turn packaging into an interactive experience that informs and entertains health and wellness consumers.
October 17, 2013
The StoryTrigger app, launched this fall by Switch United, seeks to attact health and wellness-focused consumers with enhanced health and personal care product packaging that combines object recognition technology and interactive content.
Adherence/Delivery
The future of drug production: manufacturing takes on a whole new meaning
Disruptive technologies now under development will change the way pills and medical devices will be manufactured and packaged in ways most have not begun to think of yet!
September 9, 2013
Author Michael Drues says it's possible that in the future rather than going to the drug store to fill your prescription, your doctor sends your personalized prescription electronically to a “small high-tech vending-like machine” in the back of the doctor's office.
Materials
Redefining the outsourced supply chain
To state the obvious, contract packaging is rapidly evolving. Perhaps the hardest aspect of a co-pack partnership is finding the right fit in the first place.
July 29, 2013
Hp 22138 Bobsperber 2012
Materials
10 steps to improve efficiencies in the pharmaceutical supply chain
Improving your competitiveness, building sales, cutting costs, tracking product, and upgrading manufacturing equipment and processes are key factors.
July 1, 2013
Improving your competitiveness, building sales, cutting costs, tracking product, and upgrading manufacturing equipment and processes are key factors.
Materials
Pharmacogenomics may change the way medicine is practiced—and packaged
Packagers take note: Now in its infancy, pharmacogenomics is expected to influence medical treatment and clinical trials, and bring about ‘disruptive’ change.
June 3, 2013
Dr. Michael Drues
Materials
Special report: Dirty medicine
Katherine Eban's epic inside story of long-term criminal fraud at Ranbaxy, the Indian drug company that makes generic Lipitor for millions of Americans.
May 20, 2013
Katherine Eban
Adherence/Delivery
Individualized therapies may change the way medicine is practiced, and packaged
Packagers take note: Now in its infancy, pharmacogenomics is expected to influence medical treatment and clinical trials, and bring about ‘disruptive’ change.
April 29, 2013
Individualized treatment image
Materials
Packaging trends for biologics
As the trend toward self-administration continues, the need for careful consideration of primary container design and interaction with biologics, devices, and the patient becomes more critical.
April 9, 2013
West's ConfiDose disposable auto-injector system
Materials
Serialization: EU's track and trace versus U.S.'s e-pedigree
Healthcare Packaging Publisher Jim Chrzan talks with Barry McDonogh and Dave Harty from Systech International, clarifying the enormous challenge ahead.
March 20, 2013
Barry McDonogh (left) and Dave Harty
Materials
Five tips to ensuring product integrity in temperature-sensitive distribution
UPS points to risk management planning, limiting supply chain handoffs, and quality agreements among five vital tips for temperature-sensitive product packaging and distribution.
March 11, 2013
UPS package
Materials
Temperature-sensitive logistics market in state of flux
Healthcare Packaging Publisher Jim Chrzan shares observations from Cool Chain Logistics Europe in Basel, Switzerland.
January 29, 2013
Cool Chain Europe
Materials
Cold chain: Recession, growth, and logistics in 2013
Despite the current global economic uncertainty, temperature-control professionals in the life sciences are optimistic about job prospects, and growth is predicted for 2013 and beyond.
January 15, 2013
Global optimism
Materials
Will California e-pedigree dates slip again?
Healthcare Packaging welcomes columnist Dirk Rodgers in discussing pharmaceutical track-and-trace technology, standards, and regulatory compliance issues.
January 9, 2013
Dirk Rodgers
Materials
Protecting medicines through cold chain distribution
Temperature-controlled distribution involves multiple variables, as discussed here with Geoffrey Glauser, vaccine and therapeutic supply chain contractor and subject-matter expert with Conceptual Mindworks, Inc.
January 8, 2013
Geoffrey Glauser
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