Instrument Approach Procedures Automation

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• Configuring Functional ATE Systems
  Many years ago, when a company's product was in the manufacturing cycle and needed to be tested, it was common for product verification to be performed manually by test technicians or operators. Test procedures detailed required test equipment necessary for running the test. It was not unusual...
• Right the First Time
  Last year, New York-based Pfizer launched a radical new program, "Right First Time" (RFT), designed to take it from a reactive approach to a predictive approach to manufacturing and product quality. Leveraging process analytical technologies (PAT) and information technology (IT), the program aims...
• Maintenance Management Joins the Party
  the world, is moving toward a global approach to maintenance management. “We are currently working on a long-term strategy for maintenance management systems,” Sander adds.Generally viewed as both the software as well as the procedures required to manage, report and analyze every activity surrounding...
• Drowning in Data?
  a reasonable timeline. Firms must show progress against these plans. FDA has not specified a date by which all firms must be in total compliance with the rule. A lot of data means a lot of decisions. Unfortunately, most data formats are proprietary to the instrument that created it. Until now, it has...
• Ranbaxy s Designs on Quality
  What role will automation play in QA in the future? Its role is vital. We ve already installed Documentum (EMC Corp., Pleasanton, Calif.) automated document management systems as well as instrument networking systems to enhance productivity and reliability, and plan to move to paperless...
• MICRO:Extreme Silicon Part 1, by Larry W. Shive (Feb 99)
  sampling equipment with standard inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) analytical tools. In-line sampling is essential to the success of this approach because it minimizes contamination while maximizing the possible sampling rate. It is very difficult to manually sample a chemical bath...
• Drowning in Data?
  Data management strategies are fueled by the advent of "knowledge transfer" as a management technique. Under this approach, multi-disciplinary teams work in parallel, often at multiple sites. The goal is to enable fast, efficient sharing of raw and processed data for analysis and collaboration...
• Ranbaxy s Designs on Quality
  of corporate guidelines on cGMPs that are in line with international requirements. Then, after studying and discussing country-specific requirements with local staff, we address them through local standard operating procedures (SOPs). Our global quality team takes a systematic and methodical approach...
• Silencing the cGMP Priesthood
  into the lactose, mixed the two, and placed them under the lamp. I started the instrument and we gathered spectra. Time spent? About two minutes for sample prep and 10 for data gathering. Did I “violate” GMP? You bet your mule (this is a family magazine), I did. Did I get results? Ditto. Another time...
• Smart programming for smart cameras
  question is whether to use a commercial off-the-shelf (Cots) machine- vision systems or to create something custom. Many machine builders think they can save money using a custom design instead of a Cots approach. But there are many costs associated with a custom design that often go unnoticed until...

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