Manufacturing & Packaging Articles

1. Effective Communication Drives Successful Manufacturing Transfers And Productive CMO Relationships 12/5/2022

   While lift-and-shift scenarios — wherein manufacturing is moved from one site to another without product or manufacturing process redesign —are ideal, they also are a rarity.

2. Manufacturing Transfers For Medtech OEMs: Part 1 10/11/2022

   Quality management is a mission-critical function of all MedTech manufacturers. Attention to quality issues when selecting vendors and partners can help manufacturers prevent downstream issues.

3. 5 Ways Modern MES Solutions Meet Pharma Manufacturing Needs 9/13/2022

   As a pharmaceutical product manufacturer, you regularly deal with a lot of processes, phases, and moving parts along the supply chain to get your products to market. The pharmaceutical industry is complex and highly competitive. It has become essential to seek out ways to scale, improve processes, minimize errors, reduce lead times, and keep quality and compliance at the top of the priority list.

4. Successfully Navigating A Manufacturing Transfer During Global Disruptions 8/23/2022

   Manufacturing transfer always includes technical surprises, but difficulties as a result of inadequate communication or supply chain disruption can be minimized or eliminated through transparency and collaboration.

5. Critical Cleaning For 3D Printing In The Life Sciences 8/17/2022

   This paper focuses on the critical cleaning of hard surfaces utilized in 3D printing processes across industries, such as extruded plastics, photosensitive substrates, metals, and metal alloys.

6. Textile-Engineered Tissue Scaffolds Offer Advances In Hollow Organ Regenerations 7/29/2022

   Biomedical textile engineering affords critical innovations in scaffold design, particularly where structural repeatability, spatial geometry, and engineering strength support the cellular processes in a consistent fashion. These factors illustrate the important impact that the convergence of a traditional installed base of engineering techniques–combined with new materials—offer for successful advances in regenerative medicine.

7. Implantable Fabrics Revolutionize Neurovascular Devices 7/29/2022

   In the neurovascular device segment, development is focused on minute, precision devices delivered via micro-catheters. The overarching challenge is to create components that maximize performance within a minimal deliverable profile. That’s where biomedical textiles come in.

8. Biomedical Textiles Advance Development Of Orthopedic Implants 7/29/2022

   Medical device manufacturers are expanding their portfolios with biologically based products for the repair of musculoskeletal defects ranging from bone grafting and fusion, motion-preserving spinal repair, to cartilage repair and ligament and tendon tears. 

9. The 4 Phases Of CAPA Maturity: A Guide To Mastering Quality Event Management 6/22/2022

   This brief provides an understanding of the roles corrective actions/preventive actions (CAPAs) serve in regulatory compliance and product quality improvement, offering a blueprint to help optimized strategies.

10. What Is A Robust Quality Management System And Why Does It Matter? 6/13/2022

    When we talk about partnering with OEMs, we often reference the fact we have a very robust quality management system (QMS). It sounds great, but what does it mean for you and what does it mean for us on a day-to-day basis? Why is it imperative that both organizations have an understanding of each other’s QMS?