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    Smart Technology Accelerates Biomanufacturing by Improving Reproducibility

    It’s impossible to compete in the high-pressure biotech world if your tools and internal processes aren’t up to the task. Learn how pairing advanced, purpose-built technologies can help streamline laboratory operations (LabOps) and accelerate drug discovery and development processes.

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    8 Tips That Make Software Validation Less Painful

    Computer system validation (CSV) can be painful, but following these eight tips eliminates the pain and makes it possible to upgrade more often.

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    Life Sciences Industry Experts Weigh In on Challenges Facing CMOs

    Contract Pharma assembled a panel of three seasoned life sciences industry manufacturing experts in a Q&A webinar to address the challenges contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs) have been facing in a pre- and post-COVID-19 pharma manufacturing environment. This post is a recap of that discussion.

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    FAQ: Clarifying Process Verification vs. Process Validation in Medtech

    To validate or to verify, that is the question medical device developers often wonder about their manufacturing processes. Learn the distinct differences between the two activities, why they’re both essential for compliance, and the circumstances in which each is required.

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    Customers Share Their Quality Management System Metrics

    Our customers share the measurable improvements they’ve seen in their quality management system metrics since implementing MasterControl.

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    The Role of FDA Predicate Rules in 21 CFR Part 11 Compliance

    Thanks to 21 CFR Part 11, the FDA recognizes that digitized records and signatures are just as valid as those maintained on paper. But that doesn’t mean Part 11 supersedes the requirements previously established in FDA predicate rules. Find out why your company’s compliance is dependent on understanding the applicable predicate rules.

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    10 Things to Know Before Writing an FDA 483 Response Letter

    Receiving an FDA 483 or warning letter requires prompt action from medical device manufacturers. But writing a response letter with remediation plan can seem daunting. These 10 things can start savvy manufacturers off on the right path.

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    How to Digitize Your MedTech Manufacturing Operations

    Even as digital transformation efforts accelerate in various areas of manufacturing, there remains an offline data gap created by device history records (DHRs) that rely on paper, spreadsheets, and other standalone systems. This gap slows production, quality review, and product release. What is missing in medtech manufacturing operations is the electronic DHR (eDHR) solution.

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    Overcoming the Top 5 Pitfalls in Medical Device Quality System Auditing

    Audits provide crucial information to both FDA regulators and the medical device firms being audited. Depending on how proactive, consistent, and collaborative audit strategies are within medical device firms, investigations can become an asset to accelerate the development of safer, higher-quality products. Learn how using a medical device audit management software system can help your organization overcome common challenges while also providing benefits such as shorter audit times and less frequent visits from investigators.

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    The No. 1 Most Common Problem in FDA GMP Inspections

    Year over year, the biggest issue for pharma companies remains the same. Data from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) shows that warning letters and Form 483s are most commonly issued for the same reason.

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    Stop Throwing Away Valuable Data From Quality Management System Document Reviews and Start Using It

    Life sciences companies can leverage their current processes to start extracting meaningful data from their quality management systems, but many are missing the opportunity. OQSIE’s Jaime Velez explains how improvements to document review processes can make this happen, and how it is feasible in the near term for companies to make better data-driven decisions and improve the overall quality of their products.

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    ISO 13485 Requirements: FAQ About the Top Medical Device Quality Management Standard

    Compliance with ISO 13485 requirements is evidence that a medtech manufacturer’s quality management system (QMS) and devices measure up to the highest standard of quality recognized worldwide. Just because the standard is widely acknowledged, however, doesn’t mean it’s well understood. Find answers to the most frequently asked questions about the medical device industry’s definitive QMS standard.

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    OCM Exists to Mitigate Risk in eQMS Implementations

    The implementation of an electronic quality management system (eQMS) includes multiple, sometimes complicated stages. A sound organizational change management (OCM) is key to ensuring purposes and roles are clearly understood and that leaders are in lockstep strategically and operationally. The third part of this series on OCM implementation strategies explains how to create a blueprint for successful outcomes and prepare the way for your next project success.

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    Improving Quality Through Supplier Audits

    Supplier audits are the cleverly disguised exams of the manufacturing world. Suppliers and manufacturers are held to high quality standards and both must adhere to them to ensure final products are safe and effective. The key to this is a thorough supplier audit in which the supplier and manufacturer work together to improve quality throughout the supply chain.

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  • MasterControl’s latest infographic on Pharma  Manufacturing Trends

    Your Pharma Manufacturing City of the Future

    The future of pharma manufacturing is here, and companies are racing to stay up to speed with the latest industry trends. A new interactive infographic tests your knowledge of pharma manufacturing trends and illustrates the optimal pharma manufacturing operation.

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  • Digitizing your medical device manufacturing shop floor helps with EU and US regulation compliance.

    EU MDR vs. U.S. QSR and the Role of Digitization

    There are more similarities than differences in the ways medical devices are regulated in the U.S. versus their regulation in Europe. But those subtle differences are critical to understand if you plan to market devices in both regions. See how EU and U.S. medical device regulations compare and learn how digitization streamlines compliance in both regions.

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  • Benefits of adopting a modern MES solution by pharma manufacturing companies, featured by MasterControl.

    A Modern Pharma MES Solution Offers the Best of Old and New

    A manufacturing execution system (MES) solution should offer you the best pharma MES functionality in a simplified package to match your current and future manufacturing needs. Beyond that, it should also expand your visibility across critical pivot points throughout your manufacturing operation. Ultimately, it should support your organizational growth. This post discusses how a modern MES achieves these things.

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  • 3 steps to prepare Pharma CMOs and CDMOs meet supply continuity challenges.

    Maintaining Supply Continuity: 3 Ways to Ease Pharma CMO and CDMO Worries

    As we cope with the aftermath of COVID-19 in these uncertain times, it’s critical for pharma outsourcers to control the controllable aspects of supply continuity. These three practical steps will prepare pharma CMOs and CDMOs to handle the supply continuity challenges that will inevitably arise.

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  • MasterControl’s 6 Common Myths About Adopting a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) industry brief

    6 Common Barriers to Adopting a Traditional MES Solution

    For most production environments, the barriers to adopting a traditional manufacturing execution system (MES) have kept many organizations from digitizing and automating their manufacturing environment. However, new manufacturing technologies are providing smarter, faster, and more affordable paperless shop floor alternatives to legacy MES solutions.

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  • The alignment between the FDA’s ISO 13485 & 21 CFR Part 820 featured by quality management experts, MasterControl

    Bringing ISO 13485 to 21 CFR Part 820

    For years now, the FDA has observed that ISO 13485 and 21 CFR Part 820 have a great deal in common and largely accomplish the same level of quality assurance. Now the FDA’s working on harmonizing them.

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