Manufacturing & Packaging Articles

  1. 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.

  2. 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 was seeking recommendations for packaging solutions for one of their pre-clinical drugs. They needed an experienced supplier that fully understood the challenges of delivering a biologic drug to the market.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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."

  7. 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?

  8. Optimize Sourcing And Standardization Of Cross-Program Parts 9/6/2019

    The costly proliferation of parts and components that often accompanies the pressure for product differentiation and customization can be controlled through multiple strategies. One of the easiest and most effective of these is to deploy EXALEAD Sourcing & Standardization Intelligence. By combining information sources with semantic information, these new products and applications go beyond the limits of conventional analytics solutions and deliver simple user experiences for decision makers.

  9. Strategies Of Collaborative Co-Development Success 8/21/2019

    Co-development projects task the coordination of large groups of talented engineers, assay developers, and support personnel to guide the development activity, such as the development of a complex medical instrument. 

  10. A Complete Outsourcing Partner Has Expertise To Turn Ideas Into Reality 4/10/2019

    B. Braun’s OEM Division can help companies with packaging, sterilization, and regulatory compliance as an OEM partner.