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Although adhering to functional safety requirements is not a legal requirement, they are widely regarded by regulators as representing best practice and yet companies remain incompliant. In this paper by Peter Stabler we highlight that maintaining compliance  with the safety standards will help businesses ensure  not only the safety of their operations, but also that…

There are many methods for achieving cell disruption but what are the financial and cost implications? In this whitepaper, Gary McRobbie focuses on the efficiency achieved by the standard approaches used for an industrial scale operation.

Filtration is often overlooked during the development of new processes, but at what costs? In this whitepaper OLG Consulting’s Managing Director, Noel Quigley explores how a lack of technological innovation and the overlooking of filtration’s importance within the process development is creating a ‘perfect storm’ for inefficiency.

The evolution of filling equipment technology is having a ripple effect on efficiency and productivity within the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry. Andrew Stevenson looks at how different types of components have been filled, inspected and packaged historically and how it may be changing.

Plug flow reactors (PFRs) are the current standard within the pharmaceutical industry when developing continuous flow reactions. This paper outlines the importance, however, of applying engineering principles to tailor the correct reactor to your process using advanced process simulation. It looks at how process modelling can be used to test the reaction kinetics and highlight…

Working with ‘high potency’ biological materials requires the highest levels of integrity and containment. The consequences from a containment breach hazard are very serious. Focusing on biological materials, this whitepaper outlines an approach to meet user risk reduction obligations, using LOPA hazard analysis techniques.