Pharmaceutical Process Design and Management

Kate McCormick has extensive experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing, having worked with companies and regulators worldwide. She has published several textbooks and articles, edited GMP Review from 2004 to 2011 and is a former education advisor for ISPE. McCormick has qualifications in biochemistry, microbiology and business studies. Wylie McVay has extensive operations support experience in pharmaceutical quality control, quality assurance and post-approval regulatory affairs. McVay is a review board member of the Journal of Validation Technology and GxP Compliance magazines. He is certified in Quality and Regulatory and holds a Master of Science in Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs.

 Introduction; Part I Evolution of Process Design and Management: Why process management is important; Artisan heritage. Part II Five Process Elements: Man: the mind of the process; Machine: the voice of the process; Method: the techniques of process control; Materials: the life-blood of the process; Environment. Part III Effective Pharmaceutical Process Design and Management: Changing the way we think; Cause and effect: getting to the root cause; Corrective action and preventive action: fixing the inevitable oops; Process-driven quality systems; Statistics and decision boundaries: data certainty; Problem-solving tools and techniques; Reducing the risk: the new paradigm; Customers; Process integrated accounting; Appendix; List of references; Index.