Manufacturing & Packaging Articles
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Optical Design And Manufacturing: Challenges And Uses In Medical Applications
7/31/2020
Injection-molded optics offer medical device and equipment manufacturers a timely, robust, and high-quality component option — but not all molders can deliver on the promise of this technology.
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Gene Therapy: Maintaining Sterility At Low Temperature Storage
6/23/2020
Bringing the first gene therapy for pediatric Spinal Muscular Atrophy to market in a leak and break resistant container which maintains sterility over product shelf life, through freeze and defrost cycles presented challenges. A combination of high-quality components created a proven system which ensured CCI over the product shelf life and low temperatures.
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NovaPure® Components: A Proactive Approach To Reducing Particulate Risk
5/6/2020
A biotechnology company that manufactures injectable large molecules was seeking to evaluate elastomeric components that would help them to attain the highest quality standards for their manufacturing lines. The company took a proactive approach to meeting and exceeding regulatory guidelines concerning the cleanliness of their lifechanging medicines and were keen to learn how a supplier’s tight packaging specifications could help them with their approach.
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Biopharmaceutical Company Selects West’s NovaPure® 1mL Long Plunger For First Commercial Drug Launch
5/6/2020
A small biopharmaceutical company looking to launch their first drug, reached out to West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. seeking recommendations for packaging solutions for one of their pre-clinical drugs. With limited resources and little expertise in containment and delivery of injectable medicines, they needed an experienc Download the case study for the full story.
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Streamlining Primary Container And Device Selection With Predictive Calculations
4/3/2020
This article highlights using a theoretical approach to complement experimental approaches to more quickly select a packaging and delivery system for your drug product.
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Beyond The Quote: Total Cost Of Ownership With Supply Chain Partnerships
2/3/2020
Critical components cannot be sourced like simple parts; they demand greater vendor/customer collaboration, profound depth of knowledge, and a supplier committed more to the relationship than the sale.
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Why Extruded Tubes May Be Your Best Medical Device Packaging Option
1/31/2020
Protecting your valuable medical products is of the utmost importance, but it often comes with a hefty price tag and unforeseen challenges. Rigid extruded tubes (ExT) can offer an affordable, customizable, durable, reusable, and sterilizable packaging option for your medical product.
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There's No Crying In Medical Manufacturing!
12/10/2019
Much like the game of baseball, medical manufacturing can be complex, demanding and ever changing. And it's hard. But "the hard... is what makes it great."
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The Hidden Costs Of Multiple-Vendor Contract Manufacturing
12/2/2019
When it comes to outsourcing in medical device manufacturing, companies are faced with decision to either use a selection of unrelated service providers or a single-source contract manufacturer that can handle every step of the process. While there are benefits to piecing together a group of discrete resources, there could be unintended consequences that could delay the project timeline, increase costs and lower finished quality, in addition to creating undue workload and stress for the internal project team. This article discusses these consequences and presents the advantages of working with a single-source contract manufacturer.
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Less Is More: How LEAN Processes Can Bolster Profits And Sustainability
11/19/2019
LEAN manufacturing is an important extension of controlled operations that comes with benefits in limiting costs, boosting profits, reducing waste, and improving sustainability. But, how can device manufacturers learn, adopt, implement, and make LEAN manufacturing principles part of everyday operations?