Michael Kuebler, Technical Director, Smithers Pira North America
Operational Excellence
First Person: E-commerce lifescience package transportation and testing considerations
Michael Kuebler, Technical Director, Smithers Pira North America, discusses trends and package considerations for life science products transported via e-commerce.
September 14, 2017

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Operational Excellence
Mobile pharmacies help deliver life-saving meds
How do patients cope when hurricanes such as Harvey and Irma close pharmacies and potentially eliminate access to life-saving medicines?
September 8, 2017
CVS set up this 24-hour pharmacy service at the Reliant Arena in Houston in 2005 for Hurricane Katrina evacuees.
Operational Excellence
Refrigerators maintain medication temperatures at UNC Health Care
Medical-grade refrigerators provide quiet operation and energy efficiency in storing temperature-sensitive medications within UNC’s 10-facility, 3,400-bed healthcare system.
August 17, 2017
Evolve refrigerators can be stored throughout a hospital or clinic, including a patient room.
Operational Excellence
Serialization implementation improves Par Pharma’s efficiency
Par Pharmaceuticals benefits by employing analytics-based OEE tracking system that digitizes formerly manual data collection processes on multiple packaging lines.
August 3, 2017
An OEE Tracker computer screen capture shows a line view that shows the day’s OEE, as well as lines that are running, down or idle.
Operational Excellence
Temperature issues affect clinical trials packaging
Dan Bell, Marken’s Vice President of Quality, Compliance and Technical Affairs, discusses pharmaceutical and biological clinical trials packaging issues.
July 26, 2017
Temperature-controlled packaging is focusing more on security around seals and tamper-evident closures, along with greater use of GPS tracking and geofencing to address DSCSA concerns for drugs in transit.
Material handling
Microtags provide on-product supply chain authentication
TruTag Wins 2017 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for edible microtags that can be used directly on pharmaceuticals.
July 13, 2017
TruTag Wins 2017 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for edible microtags that can be used directly on pharmaceuticals.
Controls & Machine Components
Level 4 serialization system offers a transformative promise
A Level 4 system has the potential to usher in a new era of supply chain efficiency, transparency and compliance.
July 11, 2017
Level 4 systems are at the heart of a new and exciting digital paradigm for both manufacturers and consumers.
Operational Excellence
FDA issues one-year delay in DSCSA product identifier enforcement
DSCSA law does not change, but enforcement is pushed back to Nov. 26, 2018, says agency in June 30 draft guidance.
July 5, 2017
FDA issued a June 30 draft guidance document that delays enforcement until Nov. 26, 2018 of DSCSA product identifiers at the package level. (Photo supplied by Adents).
Material handling
Global control preferences color new serialization/aggregation lines
MGS focuses on small-footprint machinery that interconnects to other equipment on pharmaceutical lines and allows a single point of functionality.
June 27, 2017
MGS’s PV-600 carton inspection machine was unveiled in the U.S. at last March’s PACK EXPO East event.
Material handling
Apace accelerates track-and-trace operations
New solid-dose bottling line increases capacity, reduces labor costs and achieves Level 4 serialization and Level 3 aggregation.
June 13, 2017
Apace installed this integrated bottling line from NJM Packaging in 2017 to increase production volume.
Operational Excellence
Delivering the ‘gift’ of organ transplants
Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates partners with UPS to ensure donated tissues or organs reach their destinations on time and undamaged.
May 30, 2017
This photo shows packaged organs being loaded onto a UPS browntail.
Material handling
How an increasingly patient-centric approach is impacting cold chain
The custom nature of patient-centric treatments introduces new questions for pharmaceutical manufacturers and stakeholders in the pharma and biologics cold chain.
May 17, 2017
The custom nature of patient-centric treatments introduces new questions for pharmaceutical manufacturers and stakeholders in the pharma and biologics cold chain.
Material handling
Track-and-trace technologies lead the security packaging market
Diverse ongoing threats, new regulatory requirements for life critical products, and technical evolution will fuel market growth for anti-counterfeiting packaging technologies.
May 10, 2017
Diverse ongoing threats, new regulatory requirements for life critical products, and technical evolution will fuel market growth for anti-counterfeiting packaging technologies.
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