Facility Design and Engineering

Prequalified manufacturing suites could benefit from a new business model, say some industry executives.

Facilities in China, Ireland, Germany, and the United States have been recognized by ISPE in the 2015 Facility of the Year Awards program.

The upgrades will offer the opportunity for higher product yields and higher purity levels.

Baxter announced that its new biopharmaceutical arm, scheduled to become independent from Baxter in 2015, will be located in Bannockburn, Illinois.

The multi-product biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility is scheduled to start up in 2017.

The new location will increase Bristol-Myers Squibb's biologics manufacturing capacity.

Sartorius opened a new application center at its offices in Shanghai for product demonstrations, trial runs, and training sessions.

The renovation to Roche's historic office building in Basel, Switzerland will feature sustainable workplaces and a state-of-the-art research center.

Experts discuss the future of modular manufacturing and the challenges that biopharma manufacturers face in facility design

Walker Barrier Systems builds eight mobile clean rooms for the Texas A&M Center for Innovation in Advanced Development and Manufacturing.

GE Healthcare Life Sciences announced that it will build a KUBio modular biopharmaceutical factory in China for JHL Biotech.

BioPharm International spoke with INTERPHEX 2013 conference-session presenters to gain insight on trends in facility and process design.

Additional challenges to the new cleanroom paradigm from concurrent multiproduct manufacturing of bulk drug substances in a controlled non-classified (CNC) ballroom environment.

The move to single-use manufacturing has prompted a paradigm shift in facility design.

NIBRT's Michael Lacey provides an overview of biopharmaceutical facility design and operation.

This article describes best practices for implementing a single-use process train at a bioproduction facility.

The combination of single-use platform technology with modular facility construction is a template for flexible manufacturing.

A brief case study of a facility-fit analysis provides insight into how to adjust capacity when moving from clinical-to commercial-scale production.

The authors explain why Catalent decided to transition from stainless steel to single-use systems.

GE Healthcare Life Sciences' ReadyToProcess platform aims to streamline bioprocessing.

Patrick Jackson of Vindon Scientific offers key considerations for choosing an outsourced sample storage facility.

Anne Marie Dixon of Cleanroom Management Associates, gives us an update on her 1988 article, "Clean Room Management."

ISPE has published a new guidance titled ISPE Good Practice Guide: Quality Laboratory Facilities, which defines design guidelines for quality laboratories.

Using a competency-based approach to effectively train biopharmaceutical industry staff.