June 2008 Issue Preview
Ad Closing: May 2, 2008 | Material Closing: May 9, 2008
Cover Story
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing’s 2008 Lean Six Sigma Benchmarking Survey
How are your peers working with the concepts of Lean and Six Sigma to improve efficiency and reduce the cost of quality? This year’s benchmarking survey discovers best practices and outlines key challenges ahead, while experts in Lean Six Sigma comment on survey findings and what can be learned from them.
Special Feature
The Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Lean 100
With the help of expert consultants in the area of operational excellence, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing editors roll out a new index based on Annual Report data, to see which companies have made the greatest improvement in efficiencies. Will your company be on this list?
API Manufacturing and Drug Delivery
Optimizing Biopharmaceutical API Manufacturing
Manufacturing biological APIs is often far more complex than dealing with small molecule ingredients. Experts share best practices on what to look out for and control, and how.
Process Operations
Error-Proofing Drug Manufacturing Plants
It’s not rocket science. But why do so few drug companies have official error proofing policies in place? Experts from leading pharmaceutical companies, and from industries such as aerospace, where visual systems and error proofing are now down to a science, explain what needs to be done and how to get there.
IT and Process Control
Modeling as a Way to Optimize Control of Biopharma Reactions
Experts from industry and academia share methdology, and what the next wave of techniques will mean for biopharma process control and optimization.
Quality Assurance and Control
Improving Vaccine Manufacturing
A brief look at how leading manufacturers of these critical biological products are ensuring compliance, as well as process understanding and control, at their facilities.
Advertising & Editorial Information
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