Best of 2023: Last Year’s Most-Viewed Resources and Blog Posts

As a professional in the life sciences, you need useful information that will help you maximize production and quality management efficiency. The team at MasterControl strives every day to produce beneficial content to help you in those efforts. We’re on a mission to spread the word about the value of digital quality management and digital manufacturing – and judging from reader response, it’s evident that you’re just as interested in these timely, critical topics as we are. If you’re wondering which subjects your colleagues, competitors, and industry peers find most interesting, check out the list below that features links to 2023’s most popular GxP Lifeline blog articles and downloadable resources.

Top 5 Digital Quality Manufacturing Blog Posts of 2023

Unlocking the Potential of AI in Quality Management: The Future of Quality Assurance

Is it possible to harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to supercharge quality management? Absolutely, says Botable CEO Greg Waldstreicher. In this blog post, he explains the ways AI is redefining digital quality management, the advantages of embracing AI tools, and strategies for successfully integrating AI into existing workflows using real-world examples.

5 Digital Supply Chain Management Tools That Will Transform Life Sciences Organizations

Digital transformation initiatives were already underway among life sciences manufacturers before COVID-19 struck, but the volatility around the global pandemic brought to light the importance of digital quality management and digital manufacturing technologies in the supply chain. Research indicates that companies digitized many activities 20-25 times faster as a result of COVID-19. Discover the enormous implications that integrating digital technologies in the supply chain has for life science organizations.

Why You Need a Document Management System

Document management systems have come a long way since the days of paper, filing cabinets, and banker’s boxes. Learn how things have changed and how you can benefit from modernizing your document management system.

5 Steps to a Better Supplier Quality Audit

Discover five often overlooked steps that can make your next supplier quality audit a more productive experience. Gain the major benefit of superior visibility into supplier performance and keep your supply chain moving.

4 Things To Know About the 21 CFR Part 820/ISO 13485 Harmonization

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is in the process of harmonizing its quality management requirements for medical device companies with the globally recognized ISO 13485 quality standard. Learn four things you should know before changes go into effect.

Top 8 Reports, Briefs, and Guides

The State of Digital Quality Maturity in Pharma and Medtech Research Report

MasterControl’s recent research on the quality management maturity model helps companies define where they stand and shows how to overcome common barriers to digital maturity. We surveyed a wide range of innovative pharma and medical device companies on their digital quality maturity statuses to help others along their digital transformation journey. See how you compare with your peers on the digital quality management spectrum.

The Ultimate Guide to Pharmaceutical Quality Management

Connected applications, advanced analytics, and AI have become vital tools as the pharma industry continues to intensify its focus on data and predictive insights and many companies move toward fully digital quality management. Learn how to go beyond proactive quality management and unleash the intelligence hidden in your unstructured data.

QMS Buyer's Guide

With all the quality management solutions on the market, picking the right software is challenging. MasterControl’s comprehensive QMS buyer’s guide gives you the tools you need to assess essential capabilities and choose a digital quality management system that complements your processes and aligns with your quality goals.

Simplify CAPA in 7 Steps

Companies doing business in regulatory environments can manage corrective action/preventive action (CAPA) processes more effectively with this in-depth guide that outlines each of the seven critical CAPA phases.

Manufacturing Software Buyer's Guide

Based on industry research and customer use cases, the Manufacturing Software Buyer's Guide is a comprehensive guide designed to help manufacturers understand

• The fundamental components of manufacturing software.
• How digital manufacturing systems are evolving.
• Why a traditional manufacturing execution system (MES) may not be the right choice.
• How advanced digital tools like the Manufacturing Excellence solution can help them simplify manufacturing execution.

The State of Digital Maturity in Pharma and Medtech Manufacturing

MasterControl conducted a study to learn why many companies in one of the world’s most innovative industries are still functioning with manual, paper-based processes. Read the report to find out how your competitors are implementing digital manufacturing solutions and gaining an edge in the market.

Manufacturing Excellence ROI Calculator

The cost of inefficient processes could be more than you think. Paper-based manufacturing processes contribute to nearly 50% of warning letters. Modern digital manufacturing solutions like MasterControl’s Manufacturing Excellence save companies up to $20,000 per week. See how much you could lower your operating costs using our manufacturing ROI calculator.

The Ultimate Guide to Digitizing Pharma Manufacturing

This guide features survey statistics and trends that illustrate the different ways pharmaceutical companies are embracing digital manufacturing tools as a way to ensure long-term relevance in the pharma value chain.

Top 6 Quality Manufacturing Webinars

2023 Life Sciences Quality Trends: How Digital Transformation is Advancing Quality Management

Quality management leaders continue to face ongoing disruptions while needing to adjust to rapid and comprehensive digital transformation. These changes don’t just present challenges for quality organizations – they also create opportunities to modernize and differentiate. In this webinar, you will learn the latest industry and technology trends that are fostering quality maturity. You’ll also discover how advanced digital quality management software solutions can help you keep pace with quality management trends.

Winners Only: 3 Steps to Compete in Digital Quality

Exclusive research from MasterControl reveals the current state of digital quality management in life sciences, the drivers and blockers for increasing quality management maturity, and how companies can gain a competitive advantage by digitizing their quality processes with an electronic quality management system (eQMS). Watch this webinar to learn where the industry is headed and how you can stay ahead of competitors with a modern eQMS.

Quality 4.0: Advancing Quality Event Management

Efficiently managing quality events requires a degree of precision that most digital quality management systems still lack because they aren’t agile enough to map directly to the expertise of the quality professionals who use them. Organizations that can digitally capture and scale the experience and skills of quality professionals will have a considerable advantage over competitors. Learn how you can design effective quality event management (QEM) processes in line with Quality 4.0 digital maturity trends using innovative digital quality management tools.

2023 Life Sciences Manufacturing Trends

Life sciences manufacturing leaders are prioritizing modern, end-to-end digital manufacturing solutions over legacy manufacturing execution systems for greater visibility and transparency across their supply chain, production, and quality functions. In this webinar, you will learn the manufacturing technology trends driving life sciences manufacturers to modernize their operations as well as practical steps to put these digitization trends into practice.

6 Ways to Thrive in Pharma With Connected MES, EBR, and Other Manufacturing Integrations

Modern manufacturing integrations and connected, cloud-based MES solutions are giving pharma leaders an edge. In this webinar, manufacturing tech experts from Elemental Machines and MasterControl examine the benefits that come from embracing digital manufacturing system integrations, advanced tools, and next-level pharmaceutical manufacturing software. Learn how you too can reduce errors while enhancing efficiency and speed.

4 Reasons Pharma and Medtech Manufacturers Should Digitize

Discover strategies for identifying and resolving issues before they obstruct your manufacturing operations and timelines. In this webinar, you’ll learn about the digital manufacturing maturity model and how a light MES can eliminate inefficiencies and streamline production.

The items listed above are just a small sample of the many helpful resources MasterControl has to offer. To explore the full library, visit our Resource Center and the GxP Lifeline blog homepage.