Process improvement consulting services

When benchmarked against other industries, such as the food industry, drug companies frequently come up far short in critical business performance indicators. Typically, non GMP critical indicators such as stock turnover, manufacturing cycle times and QC release times are well short of these benchmarks.

Tools and techniques successfully used in other industries, can be successfully applied to pharmaceutical facilities. The difficulty lies in doing this in conjunction with GMP and other Quality guidelines.

PharmOut offers a range of process improvement consulting services to assist pharmaceutical manufacturers in improving their processes and be GMP-compliant.

PharmOut will provide the Pharma-aware resources and skills to implement your cost reduction projects, whilst you concentrate on the core business.

Lean Manufacturing

Lean Manufacturing focuses on eliminating waste or non value adding activities in manufacturing processes. PharmOut Consultants have extensive experience in introducing Improvement Programs in a manufacturing / pharmaceutical environment.

Description

Lean Manufacturing is an amalgamation of Just in Time, Kanban and Total Quality ideas leading towards zero paper, zero inventory, zero downtime, zero defects, and zero delays in design, manufacture and distribution and all whilst ensuring Quality system compliance.

Example

One pharmaceutical company identified laboratory testing as a key bottleneck in their manufacturing process. Stock sat in the in process warehouse for up to 3 weeks, waiting for the lab results.

By investing in modern instrumentation, and complying with the FDA's, Process Analytical Technology (PAT) philosophy, the company was able to reduce this in-progress time by 2 ½ weeks.

World Class Manufacturing (WCM)

Use our consultants to determine what is currently best practice in pharmaceutical industry. From this baseline, we can work with you to identify the bottlenecks and problem areas that are stopping you achieving it.

Example

One client was discarding final product filters after each batch. With their best practice experience, our consultants were able to reduce the cost of these filters by introducing & validating integrity testing on the filters.