Lean Biomanufacturing: Creating Value Through Innovative Bioprocessing Approaches (woodhead Publishing Series In Biomedicine)
by Nigel Smart /
2013 / English / PDF
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With decreasing profit margins, increasing cost pressures,
growing regulatory compliance concerns, mounting pressure from
generic drugs and increasing anxiety about the future of
healthcare reimbursement, pharmaceutical manufacturers are now
forced to re-examine and re-assess the way they have been doing
things. In order to sustain profitability, these companies are
looking to reduce waste (of all kinds), improve efficiency and
increase productivity. Many of them are taking a closer look at
lean manufacturing as a way to achieve these goals.
With decreasing profit margins, increasing cost pressures,
growing regulatory compliance concerns, mounting pressure from
generic drugs and increasing anxiety about the future of
healthcare reimbursement, pharmaceutical manufacturers are now
forced to re-examine and re-assess the way they have been doing
things. In order to sustain profitability, these companies are
looking to reduce waste (of all kinds), improve efficiency and
increase productivity. Many of them are taking a closer look at
lean manufacturing as a way to achieve these goals.
A major goal of the book is to highlight those problems that
appear more specific or unique to biopharmaceutical manufacturing
situations and to provide insights into what challenges are
important to solve and what techniques, tools and mechanisms to
employ to successfully meet the challenge. The author approaches
this subject from a pharmaceutical practitioner's point of view,
and re-visits lean principles in order to practically apply these
principles to the specific needs of pharmaceutical processes.
A major goal of the book is to highlight those problems that
appear more specific or unique to biopharmaceutical manufacturing
situations and to provide insights into what challenges are
important to solve and what techniques, tools and mechanisms to
employ to successfully meet the challenge. The author approaches
this subject from a pharmaceutical practitioner's point of view,
and re-visits lean principles in order to practically apply these
principles to the specific needs of pharmaceutical processes.
