Anything that you do well is worth doing better over time. The term "continuous improvement" describes a process practiced by quality engineers but it speaks to something that every conscientious ...

Continued process verification (CPV) is the third stage of the product lifecycle of any medicine either within the small or large molecule arena. The CPV is the subsequent step to process design ...

I have been openly critical of American management and leadership. In my last column, you read my thoughts on a new style of leadership I call lean leadership. It requires that leaders exhibit ...

Processes and process automation take many forms. Here’s how to navigate the growing ecosystem of tools for automating everything from simple repetitive tasks to complex custom workflows. In 2015, ...

A photo of technicians working in front of a process train. Novartis's continuous manufacturing center in Basel, Switzerland, replicates an end-to-end manufacturing process developed at the ...

Having assessed the responses to our survey of technology suppliers about expected automation purchasing and use trends in the discrete and batch manufacturing industries, we now turn our attention to ...