I had this question thrust on me recently, "do you think the list of failed projects that have been delivered, natural catastrophise in different regions and a rampant global pandemic are beyond the current level of risk management knowledge and application to deal with?" I had to admit that...
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Sprinting Retail: How to Improve Customer Experience Using Self-Checkout Technology
Find out more in Sprinting Retail’s free webinar on Wednesday 10 November 3PM London/ 10AM New York by Peter Adolfsen, Sales Director at Sprinting Retail, a leading provider of digital solutions for modern retail chains. Forced by digitally knowledgeable shoppers that crave experiences, retail chains started introducing solutions that make our lives...
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Regtech: the essential solution for frictionless AML compliance
It’s undeniable that financial criminals and their tactics are becoming more sophisticated every day. With incidents of fraud rising dramatically, banks and financial institutions (FIs) are often on the frontline to combat these evolving risks and threats. In a united effort to prevent financial crimes, global and local regulators create...
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Blog Früh Verpackungstechnik AG and Swissfillon AG
Over the past 40 years, Früh Verpackungstechnik AG has firmly established itself in the packaging manufacturing and contract packaging industries. Our 600-strong team offers a comprehensive service covering everything from development to manufacturing, qualification, validation, and complete documentation. Based in Fehraltorf, Switzerland, our company solves even the most challenging packaging...
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Spotlight Interview with Greg Reeves – President, Arjay Engineering
Oil and the Environment: Can they really co-exist? It would be wrong to suggest that oil co-exists with our environment. Nothing to do with co-existing – it would be wrong to call it OUR environment. The earth has been around long before humans, and so has oil,...
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Trulioo, the leading global identity verification marketplace.
Open banking strategies — APIs & customer experience considerations Open systems that continuously interact with their environment are changing how industries operate, sector by sector. Consider open software, where any developer can post projects onto online repositories like Github and have other developers use, add or update the project, which...
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Prisym ID: Optimizing the clinical labelling process
Optimizing the clinical labelling process by Steve Ellison, VP of Global Clinical Trials at PRISYM ID, a leading provider of regulated content and label management solutions The Covid-19 pandemic has put further pressure on clinical trial suppliers to be fleet of foot in getting products dispatched when a new patient is recruited, as studies for vaccines have been...
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Blog Habasit
4 telltale signs that it’s time to replace processing belts (and a tip for stretching yours further) You’re probably all too aware of the high cost of belt replacement. Processing on the affected line comes to a halt, usually for 1–4 hours. With all...
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Blog STAHL CraneSystems GmbH
STAHL CraneSystems GmbH, Künzelsau, Germany (www.stahlcranes.com) STAHL CraneSystems ranks among the leading builders of hoisting technology and crane components on an international level and is the global specialist as regards explosion-protected crane technology. Our product portfolio is comprehensive and unique on the global market. The products set high standards as...
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Blog Früh Verpackungstechnik AG
Over the years, Früh Verpackungstechnik AG has established itself in the production of packaging materials and in the field of contract packaging. With our approximately 600 employees, we offer comprehensive services from development and production to qualification, validation and documentation from a single source. The Fehraltorf-based company solves...
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Managing mass change in medical device labeling
Warren Stacey, SVP of Global Sales at PRISYM ID, takes a look at the key issues and invites readers to attend a free webinar on the topic on Monday, December 14 Introduction Product labeling is particularly demanding in the medical device industry owing to the extensive amount of content required...
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The DevOps Mindset – Black Pepper Software
A Blog by Sam Warner at Black Pepper Software Today, more than ever before, DevOps seems to be everywhere. But is it really? And are you doing it right? It seems to be this thing that everybody knows about and likes to say they do, but in practise people often...
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How can companies tackle clinical label inspection challenges?
Find out more in PRISYM ID’s free webinar on Tuesday, October 13 by Chris Lentz, VP SaaS Product Management, at PRISYM ID, a leading provider of regulated content and label management solutions Mitigating the risk of errors during clinical label production is critical for ensuring regulatory compliance and patient safety; yet a recent...
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SignatureGlass: Scientific Proof that SignatureGlass delivers the Perfect Serve
Scientific Proof that SignatureGlass delivers the Perfect Serve Pasabahce commissioned leading global market research specialists Ipsos, together with applied neuroscience company Neurons Inc., to conduct neurological research seeking to establish if and to what degree there is a conscious as well as unconscious improvement in user experience when consuming a...
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Introducing Bespak by Recipharm
In February 2020, Recipharm acquired Consort Medical plc, which included Bespak. The move was designed to strengthen Recipharm’s position as a leading inhalation company and one of the largest CDMOs in the world. Combining pharma expertise with device capabilities The combination of Recipharm and Bespak – a leading player...
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HCL: 5 Strategies CXOs must use to Drive Collaboration and Productivity Post-COVID
Author: Rakshit Ghura, Vice President & Global Service Leader - Digital Workplace Services From provisioning laptops for remote working to procuring adequate VPN licenses and maintaining service levels, companies across industries have faced myriad challenges while ensuring business continuity during the pandemic. The crisis has highlighted operational and technological gaps in existing...
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ZTE Corporation – A Reliable Fixed Broadband is Key for Uncertain Times
As the result of explosive growth of network traffic recently, many operators' networks are facing tremendous challenges. The network needs to cope with the increasing bandwidth and higher service demands. The fixed broadband is the corner-stone, and has become an important part of dealing with uncertain challenges. We need...
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Amplify Analytics: De-risking Analytical Development for Pharmaceuticals
What a difference 10 weeks can make! Back on March 31st, Malvern Panalytical and Concept Life Sciences announced our partnership - just as lockdown was starting in the UK - but already it feels like a different era! Back then, delivering webinars from spare rooms whilst trying to minimize background...
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The Complex Issue of Sustainability in Packaging
Author: Renan Joel, Event Director of Packaging Innovations NEC 2020 Sustainability is one of the hottest topics within the packaging industry right now. For several years there has been a heavy focus on plastic as both the industry and consumers asked themselves how the reliance on single-use plastic products could...
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OUR BIOPRINTING WEBINAR IN ADVANCE: PART II
On January 21 2020, we will be hosting a webinar on the use of 3D bioprinting to generate in-vitro skin models. You are invited to join us! Register for free here. During the webinar we will hear about the potential of printing cell-laden biomaterials to create functional skin in the lab. We...
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OUR BIOPRINTING WEBINAR IN ADVANCE: PART I
As you might already know, we are hosting a webinar on the use of 3D bioprinting to generate reproducible skin models. It will be on Tuesday, 21 Jan 2020 and you are invited to register for free here. During this webinar we will hear about the potential of printing cell-laden biomaterials to create functional...
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CordenPharma – Peptide Webinar Blog
CordenPharma’s live webinar on Wed November 20th, titled “Scale-up Considerations for Large-Scale Peptide Manufacturing,” will present concepts that bear differences in the outcomes of peptide synthesis that are dependent on scale. The topics discussed can significantly impact quality and processability, and are often unexpected if scale-up planning only applies...
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How To Take The Fast Lane To Process Perfection
On May 30th 2019, FlowForma and Business Review Webinars will co-host a webinar, 'How To Take The Fast Lane To Process Perfection' with James Morgan, IT Manager of the A14 Project. The theme of this webinar will be dominated by Automation, Visibility & Mobility, primarily discussing how the A14 IDT (Integrated Delivery Team) brought complicated paper-based processes such...
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Global Counterfeiting: Alive and Kicking
Last year’s Global Brand Counterfeiting Report estimated that the counterfeiting industry worldwide will reach $1.82 trillion by 2020. This study also concludes online counterfeiting sales have robbed legitimate industries of $323 billion in 2017 alone. “The report explicates that the problem of counterfeiting is long-standing and is growing more and...
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Why Accountants Want To Keep Using Excel Forever
As human beings, we’re hardwired to not like change. For accountants, this is elevated because of what change means for Accounting. It’s not necessarily because old habits die hard—but rather, because we associate change in any process, system, and control with increased risk. This explains...
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How goal-based advice combined with a realistic risk framework helps wealth managers grow their business and reduce risks
We believe that goal-based advice is superior to any other form of investment advice as clients always have financial goals. All clients have at least one goal in mind when they invest, even if they only want to increase their wealth or minimise losses. This type of investment advice requires...
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The Business of Cyber-Crime – How Financial Firms Can Keep Pace in the AI Arms Race
Again and again, Hollywood has painted an identical picture of the garden-variety hacker: a twentysomething lone wolf, wearing a dark hoodie, sitting in his mother’s basement, perhaps trying to break into a celebrity’s Twitter account. The unfortunate reality, however, is that today’s hackers are far more organized and far less...
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How AI Cyber Defenses are Fighting The Next Generation of Bank Robbers
Perhaps the most quintessential crime of them all, in-person bank robberies have become all but a thing of the past. At the same time, cyber-crime cost the average financial services company more than $18 million last year, meaning that this year, the greatest threats to the industry will undoubtedly be...
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Delivering Business Value from Machine Learning and Analytics: Lessons Learned from Real-World Successes
With the proliferation of business data in every market sector we see parallel advances in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and general analytics. Successfully getting business value out of these techniques has become a complex affair. This isn’t meant to discourage potential users but really to alert them to...
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Inkjet printing of food and pharmaceuticals
From the introduction of date coding onto eggs to the digital images adorning today’s birthday cakes, printing onto food and pharmaceutical products has long been established. There are now thousands of food and pharmaceutical items printed every day! What can adopting digital printing do for your business? Much of the...
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What factors determine proper generator sizing?
Power generation is needed in an endless variety of locations and environments, with each installation having different factors affecting generator requirements. Incorrect generator sizing can be disastrous in any power generation project if particular installation factors are not properly taken into account. Many OEM’s and end users are posed with...
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Label Production for a Changing Consumer Market
Across the globe, today’s consumers are reshaping the marketing paradigm. These consumers expect—and often receive—a marketing experience tailored to their specific interests and needs. As a result, marketers strive to provide consumers with a consistent, relevant brand experience across their entire marketing mix, from online interactions all the way to...
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Data sharing and ownership: home truths for utilities
Despite a history of insularity, data sharing is an inevitable reality for utilities. So who is liable for that data? Engerati asks data specialists at OSIsoft for insight. Originally published at Engerati on 17 Apr 2018 Data is at the forefront of many utilities’ minds - collecting data, protecting data, distributing...
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Isolation Barrier to Abandon Subsea Pipelines
When normal operation of a pipeline ceases, operators must adopt an appropriate abandonment process. The first step in the abandonment of a pipeline is decommissioning, which is to take it from its operating condition and render it clean and safe on the seabed. Once decommissioned, pipelines can be recovered to...
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Extending Service Life: How your Oil and Gas Equipment Can Benefit from Brush Plating
In the oil and gas industry, equipment operates in harsh environments. Components expected to withstand wear, corrosion, fluctuations in temperature and pressure, and operators need repair solutions that can be completed in as little time as possible – producing outstanding results which can keep the components protected from further damage....
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Innovations in Groove Plating
The oil and gas market is making a strong comback after the downturn starting in 2014. After the restrictions were lifted on the four-decades long ban on oil exports in the beginning of 2016, the US witnessed a substantial increase in the demand for exported oil. Now with the expansion...
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British Army’s Ice Maidens to showcase innovations used on Antarctica expedition at Medical Innovation 2018
Major Natalie Taylor, a member of the British Army’s six-strong female team to cross Antarctica unassisted, will share insights into the 61-day expedition with visitors at Medical Innovation 2018. The Ice Maiden showcase will unveil the state-of-the-start physiological monitoring sensor technology used to measure the team’s heart rate, respiration and...
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Going Paperless in the Energy & Engineering Sector – mission impossible?
There's an old saying - "if it ain’t broke, don't fix it". It's an analogy which sits perfectly with those who have yet to submerse themselves into the world of business process management. Traditional methods of approaching internal business processes involving paperwork still exist, yet there are quicker, transparent and more streamlined solutions available. A Shift In...
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Boehringer Ingelheim Discovers the Golden Batch with Real-Time Data
The story of pharmaceutical production is often a quest for the golden batch: a repeatable process that consistently optimizes yield and quality. But pursuit of the golden batch can be a perilous process. Compliance with government regulations is always a chief concern for biopharmaceuticals; results must fall within a narrow...
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Prefillable polymer syringes, an innovative primary packaging solution that meets your specific requirements
Prefillable polymer syringes have gained big interest by the pharmaceutical industry in recent years. Besides the traditional glass syringes, polymer syringes have established in the aesthetics as well as in the biotech and animal health sectors. Many new, especially protein-based, biotechnologically manufactured medications, but also highly viscous or low-dosage drug...
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The Dos and Don’ts of Collaborative Partnerships for Banks
A list of five dos and don’ts for banks collaborating with fintechs. Do treat prospective fintech partners as serious vendors The term “fintech partnership” often means an invitation to the bank’s lobby. Sandboxes, pitch competitions and in-house accelerators are (not always but very often)...
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How Can Banks Make Money From Mobile Wallets?
Are banks already perfectly set-up to win the mobile payments battle? Can mobile payments become the most important revenue channel for banks? What are some examples of the sources of mobile payments-driven revenue for banks? These are some the topics which will be explored by a line-up of three mobile...
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Temenos – Beyond Payments
Temenos only creates software for banking and finance institutions. This focus on our sector’s needs and approach to consistently investing in product development, irrespective of market conditions, has led to 41 of the world’s top 50 financial institutions choosing our solutions and being recognised as a market leader. We support...
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Banks vs. Fintechs in payments; competition or an essential partnership?
For years, banks and fintechs were portrayed as adversaries in the battle for control of the financial services industry. But with Open Banking being adopted in APAC, does, or is, this rivalry changing? Darryl Proctor reviews the new environment that Open Banking and Instant payments presents and the importance of...
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New Challenges Faced by the Brewing Industry
The brewing industry has recently undergone several significant changes. The craft beer market has exploded and, the average beer drinker has developed more sophisticated tastes, opting for higher quality beers. Brewers are looking to expand their business by exporting their product to distant consumers. All the while, the cost of...
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How to foster a lasting relationship with investors in a world where engagement is moving more online?
A Capgemini study[1] shows that while investors are embracing the benefits of online tools, wealth management firms seem to underestimate clients’ appetite for robo-advice. Almost 50% of global HNWI would consider having a portion of their wealth managed by an automated advisory service, while only 20% of wealth managers thought...
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Ultrasonic Technology Capabilities
Ultrasonic Technology Capabilities NDT Global understand that guaranteeing the safe operational conditions of pipelines is paramount to integrity management programs. Intelligent inline inspection (ILI) solutions are widely used throughout the industry to guarantee such safe operations. ILI tools record data while travelling through the entire pipeline from launcher to receiver....
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Are All Digital Printing Inks Food-Safe for Corrugated Packaging?
If you are a brand owner, converter, or observer in the packaging supply chain, you probably know the buzz around digital printing. To say the least, the digitally printed packaging market is attractive and growing. Corrugated packaging is among the fastest growing digital segments, with market value growing to $4.6B...
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Internal and External Lifting Tools Used to Prevent Dropped Object Threat From Damaged Caissons
Due to their harsh environment, caissons can experience severe external corrosion at the waterline and galvanic corrosion / erosion at the pump string location. This can result in loss of structural integrity due to fatigue cracking resulting in all, or part, of the caisson becoming detached. Falling caissons have the...
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Does Your Digital Lending Go Beyond Mobile?
Digitization is very topical at the moment, it has triggered many conversations and its impact in banking has been hotly debated. Financial services seem to be ripe for disruption by the new breed FinTech companies for a number of reasons including rapidly evolving customer preferences, declining customer loyalty and the...
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Reinvent Art
Over the last year, we have been working with the Creative Strategist Silas Amos, to increase collaboration with leading artists using HP’s SmartStream Mosaic software. This new creative tool can take an artist’s original design and digitally morph it into thousands of unique works which are all works of art in their...
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Evolving The Bank Branch
With today’s retail banking environment in a constant state of change, it’s hard to know how to position your branch. Whether due to the rise of mobile banking, declining branch transactions, shifting consumer needs or all of the above — the future of the branch is anyone’s guess. Ready or...
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Easing Into A Branch Evolution Strategy
"Sound strategy starts with having the right goal." - Michael Porter The future of retail banking is fraught with uncertainty. At seminars and industry events, it's not uncommon to hear speakers say that the branch is going the way of the dinosaur. Conversely, there is a strong group of proponents who...
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Achieving Excellence in Plant Operations
By Ferenc Tóth, Business Solutions Consultant, ABB Enterprise Software Being a Plant Operator is a very challenging job. If I Google Plant Operator job descriptions, there are exhaustive lists of responsibilities. Without trying to provide a full account here, let’s look at the most important ones: Operate processing equipment and log...
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Clean mobility smart transport – TBB by InnoEnergy
Transport is one of the most fundamental building blocks of modern civilization, connecting people, cultures, cities, countries and continents. Just like humankind, it has evolved throughout the ages. As our thinking and intelligence advance, naturally the modes of transport we engineered did too. Continuous R&D, strong demand in the market...
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Astra Nova partnership with BGO Software
As most people involved in the Clinical Research or Pharmaceutical industry are well aware, both of those are ever-growing and changing, reaching revenues in the billions every year. The healthcare sector is developing more and more medicines and medical equipment, constantly evolving and improving. That is the main catalyst for...
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Intelligence to Differentiate
The history of computing may look like a sinusoid oscillating between the use of distributed intelligence (i.e. processing power) and the connection of unintelligent devices to a centralized greater intelligence whose power they will exploit. Where are we now, when each of us carries a mobile device in his or...
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3 Steps Toward Powering Digital Transformation through Software Defined Infrastructure
Written by Piyush Saxena, AVP & Head, Next Gen Datacenter Practice, HCL Over the past 12-18 months, we have seen enterprise IT leaders turning to Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI) to enable a resilient and scalable IT architecture that can keep pace with digital initiatives at the business level. SDI is fast...
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Fixing What Isn’t Broken: Optimizing the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Using Operational Data
In heavily-regulated industries, the path of least resistance often means that processes stay the same, and the pharmaceutical industry is no exception. Between red tape and high-margin drugs that are brought to market under short-term patents, pharmaceutical companies must quickly recoup research and development costs while mitigating risk, leaving little...
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What Is The Future of Food Labeling Systems?
By Ken Moir, VP Marketing, NiceLabel The food and beverage industry is changing. Companies are under pressure to digitally transform in order to compete. Labeling has never played a more crucial role in food and beverage businesses....
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Community Energy: A Grass Roots Revolution in Energy Supply
Recently, communities across markets such as the UK, the US, the Netherlands and Austria have started to play an active role in shaping their energy world. Coalitions of consumer groups, businesses, local governments and neighbours are mobilising around the generation and distribution of their own energy. Maikel van Verseveld, CEO...
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How Do You Become A Digital Bank?
By Daragh O'Byrne Rapid changes in technology and growing expectations have created tremendous opportunities across all industries including financial services. Customers now demand products and services that are customized to their individual needs, and the ability to transact at a time and a place of their choosing. In the shift...
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Practical 5G: What is it good for?
By Sonal Ghelani, Research Manager, 5G World 5G networks are fast becoming known as the future of wireless technology, enabling the connected world, supporting multiple devices and services at one time. This will require superfast connectivity, low latent, reliable networks. 5G promises to transform the way we look at the...
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Technology: Seizing The Opportunity Across The Hospitality Sector
The impact of technology across the hotel and hospitality sector cannot be underestimated. It has and will continue to revolutionise customer service, from checking in to in-room bespoke technology and facilitating new ways of consumers finding and planning their holidays. However it isn’t just changing customer interactions -...
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Process Protection – What Does It Mean To You?
Guy Matthews, market development manager at Parker domnick hunter, explores what process protection means for biopharmaceutical manufacturers… and examines how supply chains can be made more robust. Imagine the scenario. Your new blockbuster drug is making a significant difference to the lives of patients. But then your supply chain fails,...
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What Problems Is Your Lubrication System Causing You?
I often hear from our partners and customers that their lube systems are causing them problems. Issues range from oil stiction of valves – causing them to lose efficiency – to bad gas quality due to oil droplets, caused by over-lubrication. Good lubrication in itself can be challenging to get...
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Setting The Standard For Better Integration For Utilities
Standards are pretty important when you think about it. They ensure the safety, quality and performance of the structures, products and processes we use every day – the houses we live in, the food we eat, the infrastructure we rely on. Done right, they can make our everyday lives easier, safer...
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GCP, GMP and GDP – The Most In-demand Industry Trainings
It is a well-known fact that when it comes to extremely specialized sectors like clinical research, gaining the necessary set of skills and industry know-how is really important. Effective training programs and online learning have a tremendous impact on practitioners’ approaches to various tasks and research projects. That’s why at...
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How can you prevent socially-engineered email attacks affecting your organisation?
Did you know that email is the most popular communication tool, as well as the entry point for up to 95% of security breaches? As cyber criminals evolve their techniques, targeted, enterprise-facing email attacks are rapidly increasing, fueled by an almost inexhaustible supply of potential victims and the tremendous profits...
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Breaking The Barriers to Better Integration For Utilities
In business, for as long as there’s been talk about integration, there have been consultants. Some might argue the chicken and egg the other ways around. Fact is that integration comes in lots of flavors – systems, teams, processes, to name but a few – and is generally pretty hard...
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HP Inc. – Brands, Digital Print and Customer Engagement
Brands are always looking for new ways to engage their customers and increase consumer loyalty. HP digital printing solutions for packaging are enabling new applications including eye-catching quality graphics, timely event-based messaging and implementation of integrated multi-channel online and instore print campaigns. An interesting aspect of printing is understanding what...
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Sogeti – Digital Government and The War For Talent
All enterprises find it hard to attract skilled technology workers. But sometimes it seems that public sector technology leaders are fighting the war for talent with one hand tied behind their backs. On the one hand, demand for staff has been increasing as organisations – particularly in central government –...
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Leveraging Prior Knowledge Increases the Predictability of MAb & ADC Commercialization
by Christophe Grimm & Ian Schwartz The market for immuno-therapeutics such as monoclonal antibodies and antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) is becoming increasingly competitive. Biopharmaceutical companies continue to develop innovative new products to treat existing disease targets while biosimilar companies are attempting to steal market share from licenced products. To be successful,...
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Anemia Affects Almost Two Billion People in the World. Now it’s Time to Act and Make use of the Ocean of Knowledge that Resides in a Drop of Blood
Anemia is a significant problem in many parts of the world. It's particularly problematic in developing countries where infections and diseases are common. These add up to create a major burden on well-being, on quality of life, and even on the economies of entire countries. In women of reproductive age,...
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Malvern Instruments – Advances in Protein Stability Characterization
By Verna Frasca, PhD. My introduction to differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) was as a postdoctoral fellow in the late 1980s. I was producing mutant forms of the enzyme thymidylate synthase, and I needed to characterize the effects amino acid changes had on the overall stability of the protein. Using a...
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X-Rite Pantone – Color Accuracy and Consistency: A Balancing Act
When all of final production packaging comes together on the store shelf, it’s a brand’s moment of truth. Do the stand-up pouches, overwraps, and corrugated POP displays match? How close is the color to its standard? We know you spend so much time and money designing, proofing, sampling, printing, and...
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Three Recommendations for Improving Clinical Assessment – Comprehend Systems
Multiple logins, one patient Recently, a sponsor’s Chief Medical Monitor remarked to me that it requires six different logins for them to pull together a coherent view of patients in their studies. Unfortunately, this is only the tip of the iceberg. With the rise of outsourcing and proliferation of data...
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Alcatel-Lucent – What does the network have to do with patient engagement?
By Alcatel-Lucent Patient engagement is a very hot topic in healthcare these days. Put simply, it’s finding ways and means to encourage patients to take more ownership of their health. A better informed patient is a patient that is more likely to comply with their treatment plans and is more likely...
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Alcatel-Lucent – Optimizing the patient care pathway: A four step transformation towards a next generation Healthcare Communication System
By Alcatel-Lucent The need to improve long term quality care for patients is a main driver behind consolidations occurring in healthcare. It’s happening in multiple forms ranging from grouping some regional hospital resources, to activities based on merger and acquisition amongst hospitals, including IS/IT resources. As someone on the technology...
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Alcatel-Lucent – Apple Watch: Network and Healthcare Game Changer?
By Alcatel-Lucent As a guy who actually wears a watch I kept half an eye on Apple’s keynote via a live blog yesterday. What interested me most is the focus on the device as a tool for medical research. Apple’s announcement included support for ResearchKit, a set of APIs that will let organizations easily write...
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Alcatel-Lucent – Cool health tech innovations – great for users, bad for networks
By Alcatel-Lucent Senior care was on my mind this week, mainly due to an article I encountered in my daily surfing. It mentioned that theFDA had approved its first ingestible device to help with medication adherence. In plain English, we’ve taken the first step towards “smart pills” that will wirelessly allow care providers...
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Nokia – Airport and network security: is there a difference?
By Thierry Sans, Head of Customer Marketing for Transportation, Oil, Gas and Mining, Nokia 2015 was the worst year ever for cyber-attacks. An estimated 480 million records were leaked around the world as cybercriminals stole vast sums of money and personal data, affecting thousands of people in the process. The attacks affected...
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Nokia – LTE unlocks next-generation airport communications
By Thierry Sens, Head of Customer Marketing for Transportation, Oil, Gas and Mining, Nokia Twitter: @nokianetworks Modern airports are hives of activity. Often likened to a city within a city, they employ thousands of people and serve millions of passengers every year. Communications networks are the lifeblood of these vast and complex...
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You Know Where The Regulatory Submissions Gaps Are – Do You Know How To Fix Them?
Register today for an upcoming webinar to uncover insights and best practices in identifying and closing gaps in your regulatory submissions management system. Deploying a regulatory submissions management system is a critical challenge for many pharmaceutical companies as they wrestle with the vast amount of information exchanged within their own...
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CRO’s Capitalize on Market Growth with Technology
By Mike Lemons, ArisGlobal In an increasingly challenging and complex regulatory environment, life science and biotech companies are leveraging Contract Research Organizations (CRO's) to ensure the timely and accurate management of clinical trials for their respective products. Why? The CRO market is poised for continued growth as new opportunities arise...
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What Does Technology Have to Do With Design?
By Eshchar Ben-Shitrit, VP Marketing, Highcon Working at Highcon has allowed me to experience, first-hand, the excitement of applying innovative digital technology to highly creative designs. If, like me, you thought finishing was the boring, costly part at the end of the printing process, now is the time to think...
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Are you Prepared for Subsea Pipeline Repair Emergencies?
The global oil and gas industry is reliant on the long term dependability of pipelines. Rigid pipelines are vital to the safe and efficient transportation of hydrocarbons and as such failures within these pipelines can have huge environmental, safety and reputational implications. As the global demand for energy increases so...
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What can testing do to ensure the quality of Mobile Video Services?
by Arnd Sibila, Technology Marketing Manager, Rohde & Schwarz Arnd Sibila joined Rohde & Schwarz in 2012 as Technology Marketing Manager for Wireless Technologies. In 2014 and 2015 he additionally led the Infrastructure Global Key Account Manager group. Since 2016 he focus on Technology Marketing for the Mobile Network Testing market...
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Printers & Converters: Can you respond to your customers more effectively than your competition?
Before you get a chance to impress customers with your technical capabilities, low prices, and commitment to their success you need to perform some very basic tasks. How quickly can you get them a quote? How confident are you in the accuracy of that quote? How quickly can you confirm...
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Raw Data Management – Challenges for the Pharmaceutical Industry
arivis and BioMedion focus on developing software for the pharmaceutical industry. One of our areas of core competence is realizing Enterprise Content Management projects for managing raw data, especially device data in a GxP environment. Our customers are confronted with a raft of challenges when it comes to managing their...
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Winning Is Not Always About Being First
by Maikel van Verseveld, CEO, OMNETRIC Group In March, I shared my belief with utility companies that the disruption cloud overhead - made up of technology and business trends - could have a silver lining. My message was that we should stop listing the challenges and start identifying the opportunities....
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Plate heat exchanger certification – a win-win game for the HVAC industry
All market places have parties with different interests and drives. The buying side wants value for money and the selling side is striving for profit. The Plate heat exchanger market is no exemption. Can we change the playground and join forces in a win-win game? A step on the way...
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How Can You Make a Smart City a Genius? A Look at Network Requirements for Critical Infrastructure and Services
by Kevin Fitzgibbons For municipalities around the globe, making cities smarter is no longer a luxury or a long-term goal – it’s a necessity, and it needs to happen now. There are plenty of applications and devices that can enable better city management, faster and safer mass transit, better equipped...
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Gaining an Insight into the Nasal Drug Delivery Journey, from Systemic to Nose-to-Brain
At Aptar Pharma and Next Breath, one of our primary focuses is Nasal Drug Delivery, from Systemic to Nose-to-Brain. What is the Nasal Drug Delivery journey? Nasal Drug Delivery is a route of administration in which drugs are delivered through the nasal cavity. It can be used for either topical or systemic administration. The effects of drugs thereby delivered...
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TOP 3 QUESTIONS TO ADDRESS WHEN PLANNING FOR THE INTERNET OF THINGS
by Kristen Weygandt | May 6, 2016 Business insight from Microsoft, IFS and IDC share what actions you should take to maximize the benefits of the Internet of Things. Talk of IoT is everywhere. It’s in the news, across social media, a topic of discussion in the office — it’s truly everywhere. But,...
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Moving Data Security to the Centre of the Business
by Jon Collins, Senior Technology Consultant at Inter Orbis A couple of weeks ago, I was lucky enough to speak to Clément Cazelot at Intralinks, about the role of data security in the digital world. As I ruminate on our discussion, I can’t help wondering how the message would be...
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STATS Group Microsite: Resources for Pipeline Maintenance, Integrity, Isolation & Repair
STATS Group has recently launched their new microsite within Business Review Webinars and we thought it might be of interest to you and your colleagues.The site features upcoming and on demand webinars, videos, case studies and whitepapers focusing on the isolation, intervention and repair of onshore and subsea pipelines in the oil, gas...
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Are You Getting the Most ROI from Your LTO?
By Dani Schooley and Stephanie Davis Are you looking to drive traffic and impact the bottom line? Maybe you have implemented limited time offers (LTOs), but experienced only mediocre results. Join us for a webinar that will highlight the challenges associated with LTOs and provide a framework to help you...
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Catalent Microsite: Resources for Solving Drug Delivery, Clinical Supply and Biologic Challenges
Catalent has recently launched their new microsite within Business Review Webinars.The site features recent Webinars, Videos and Case Studies detailing research across the full spectrum of challenges that pharmaceutical companies face with their pipeline molecules. Catalent is focused on helping their customers get more molecules to market by enhancing product performance and...
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How is forming digital partnerships key for your corporation’s growth?
The ‘always on’ customer is driving a new era of organisation – an organisation that must look past its current form and look to draw on the ‘power of many’ to drive innovation in a hyper-disruptive world. Telstra recently launched Connecting Companies: Strategic Partnerships for the Digital Age, the second...
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The Useful Guide to Unique Device Identification
For the sake of patient safety, the ability to track and trace medical devices at a global level is paramount. However there are some key considerations to be aware of when implementing UDI. Download our useful guide to discover the benefits of UDI, discover how it is tracked, who it...
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Making Air Pollution Control Profitable
Removing acids from boiler flue gas allows users the opportunity to profit from the need to operate an air pollution control system. While traditionally applied technologies are well known, such as SCR NOx reduction, the secret lies in Dürr’s low-CAPEX SCR active Catalytic Hot Gas Filter in combination with the...
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Top Tips for Terrific InkJet Print
Ms. Pat McGrew, M-EDP, CMP - InkJet Evangelist / PageWide Web Press / HP Inkjet printing is a powerful force. It gives you amazing speed, beautiful print quality, and a variety of finishing options that let you meet the most demanding client requirements. Inkjet is, however, different from other printing...
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Mission Possible; Streamlining Label Validation
For many years, validating labeling processes has felt like an impossible mission for global medical device manufacturers, and has in some ways become a major barrier to the deployment of new systems for the fear of lengthy testing cycles and spiraling costs. Yet Label Lifecycle Management (LLM) is a mission...
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Is the packaging industry on the verge of disruption?
We’re in the midst of an exciting era in which old, established industries and business processes are being challenged to keep up with a fast changing world. The taxi and limousine industry has been turned on its head by Uber, shopping malls are shutting their doors as e-retailers like Amazon...
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Looking to align your company as a “Thought-Leader”?
Sponsoring opportunities available for our upcoming webinars co-hosted/presented by Current Analysis and delivered by Business Review. Webinars series for Q4 2015: Network Provider Business Transformation: Brian Washburn, Service Director – Business Network and IT Services – 01 Dec 4.5G and the Path to 5G: Peter...
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There’s Lots of Reasons to Like Oktober…
Hello everyone! October is here which means summer is officially over (unfortunately). But, don’t worry it’s not all downhill, autumn is an underrated season in my opinion and there are plenty of things that we can start to look forward to. I have just returned from a wonderful holiday in...
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Yeast foam detected, overflow stopped – level switch in brewery applications
Yeast is an essential ingredient of the fermentation process for brewers. But yeast can also be a problem for the brewery. Baumer helped the Carlsberg brewery solve a problem with left over yeast from the fermentation process – by using the CleverLevel switch. The Carlsberg brewery was founded in 1847 and is today...
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THE OIL & GAS GLOBAL SALARY SURVEY
HAVE YOUR SAY The Oil & Gas Global Salary Guide is compiled by Hays Oil & Gas and Oil and Gas Job Search. The upcoming guide will be the 7th edition and continues to be the world’s largest study of salaries, employment trends and working practices in the oil and...
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Is it Time to Optimize Your Supply Chain Network?
Learn about the Next Step in Dynamic Network Management from HAVI Global Solutions Experts Although successful supply chain management may often seem basic in its simplest form: Get the right ingredients or products to the right location, at the right time for the best price possible; the practice of these...
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The Best Sport, Music, Fashion, Literature and Webinars
Hello and welcome to the September newsletter! Once again I’ll be highlighting various events taking place this month in my own unique way. I hope you’ve all enjoyed summers whether in the office or lying on a beach chillaxing. Do you like architecture? Do you also like design? Do you...
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While the webinars are away, make the most of your days
Welcome to the August newsletter, I hope wherever you are in the world the sun is shining bright in the sky, its glorious here in London city. I will soon be jetting off to Majorca for an adventure holiday kayaking, rock climbing, hiking and grooving my way round the island....
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A Novel Tool to Meet Water Compliance and Quality Requirements in the Food and Beverage Industry
Here we propose a technology that offers a new suit of capabilities to support you in different challenges arising from meeting regulatory standards. Discharge and Trucking Costs Some of the areas of regulation that are proving hard to meet include the removal of pesticides, colour and hard to treat recalcitrant...
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Summer is here; from festivals and flowers to tennis and top webinars
Welcome to the July newsletter! With temperatures in London hitting 35c summer is certainly here. Below I’d like to highlight some events you can enjoy in this month alongside the lovely weather. One of the most prestigious sporting events in the world in now underway - The Wimbledon Championships. So...
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Winners, weekends out and webinars
Welcome to the June newsletter in which I give my own distinctive and original take on current events. Firstly, I’d like to talk about my beloved Gunners! My team Arsenal won this year’s FA Cup final and became the most successful club in FA Cup history. It was their twelfth...
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EVOQUA INTRODUCES COMAG® SYSTEM FOR HIGH RATE CLARIFICATION OF INDUSTRIAL WATER AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT
Evoqua Water Technologies' magnetite ballasted CoMag System is now available for industrial water and wastewater treatment applications. Proven magnetite ballasted CoMag® System now available for industrial water and wastewater treatment applications Enhances settling rates for increased performance of water and wastewater treatment plants Provides superior contaminant removal far below conventional...
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How many of these pharmaceutical wastewater issues are you addressing?
Integrated processes ‘End of pipe’ filtering is out. The new trend is to look at making water treatment an integrated part of process design. Since water recycling is currently less efficient for highly contaminated waste streams and those containing a diverse range of chemical properties, we believe the solution is...
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Achieving weight savings through intelligent fire design
When attempting to solve complex problems we often rely on generalized assumptions and generous margins for error to reach a solution we agree is not perfect, but acceptable. This is often because it would take considerable time and effort to calculate the values needed to reach the perfect solution. Let...
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Is Your Business Solution Adequate to Support Your Growth: Find Out in my Upcoming Webinar
Finding a needle in a haystack is hard, but the task pales in comparison to finding a specific needle in a pile of needles. Selecting the ideal Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution from among the numerous options on the market can feel like just as daunting a challenge. ERP represents...
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Increasing Labeling Efficiency: taking a 360° view
Increasing operational efficiency is an aim for all medical device manufacturers and is a driver for change for many organizations. But the question is how without affecting every day operations? Many proactive medical device companies are already beginning to take a more strategic approach to the management of data and...
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This month you MAY wish to join us for a webinar
Welcome to this month’s newsletter. I will first discuss a couple of annual events celebrated in May, talk about the importance of skin protection and then highlight a few day and nights out I’ll be enjoying. We have already appreciated our first of two Bank Holidays this month which took...
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Is Innovation the Key to a Single-Use TFF Future?
Parker Webinar Advances in technology are allowing biomanufacturers to move to entirely single-use set-ups for tangential flow filtration and benefit from the many advantages of single-use technology. Tangential flow filtration (TFF) is a common operation in the manufacture of biopharmaceuticals and has traditionally been performed using reusable cross flow filters installed...
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Seamless innovation by improved laboratory informatics
OSTHUS Webinar Life science data is a major asset for biopharmaceutical and chemical industries. Their availability via electronic systems is a prerequisite for collaborative work and successful innovation. Currently, most laboratories have to deal with a multitude of data sources originating from different instruments, systems, sites and external resources all...
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Baumer and the “Bourdon Original”– a successful combination of innovation and reliability
By: Stefan Diepenbrock, Manager Public Relations, Baumer Who would have thought it? While the wheel of innovation keeps turning faster and faster in the process industry, a more than 160-year-old technology is still used for pressure measurement today. When Eugène Bourdon filed a patent application for the "Bourdon tube" named...
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Races, St. George, Webinars and Westwood
Welcome to the April newsletter. I would like to highlight some of the celebrations and current events taking place this month. I hope you all enjoyed your four day weekend and more importantly Easter! Since its origins, Easter has been a time of celebration and feasting where many different traditional...
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How Can Energy Storage Help the Stability of Future Grids?
EnerSys Webinar Energy storage is an established technology. Therefore, the dynamic behavior of storage is even more important than its long term capacity. Energy storage needs to be integrated in network-based energy systems, in the electrical grid system, heat and cooling network and gas networks. It can also provide an...
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Stability Issues Related to Soft Gelatin Capsule Development
Procaps Webinar Stability issues are a challenge and never ending concern for formulators. The reactivity of formulation depends on many factors, but it is generally recognized that labile drugs in aqueous forms are sometimes the worst case scenario, and this should be a true statement for the development teams that...
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Enjoy Easter egg and webinar hunting!
Welcome to the March 2015 newsletter! While I have enjoyed winter and have wished for a few more snowy days now that springtime is so close (officially beginning on March 21st) I am looking forward to it. Blossom is already sprouting on the trees that adorn my street and leaving...
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What Would You Call A Power Failure?
One answer of course is - A current event! (Sorry, about that. Can't help myself) A less funny and far more serious answer is that a power failure is a critical event on the part of an energy supplier's mission critical network. This kind of failure, which impedes full monitoring...
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Delivering competitive difference via the service supply chain
By Sven Boddington Vice President Global Marketing & Client Solutions at Teleplan International It’s fair to say that the service supply chain has traditionally been viewed as a ‘behind the scene’ necessity, a functional part of the business process for manufacturers. However, in a recent survey we found that the...
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Have you started to prepare for IDMP?
INFOTEHNA Webinar Implementation of XEVMPD has been challenging for everyone involved due to short timeframes, deadlines and changes in the technical requirements. ISO IDMP (Identification of Medicinal products) legislation which will come into effect in mid-2016 brings about a global scope and the requirement for data integration across the companies....
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Love (and pancakes) are in the air…
Here in Britain there is a chill in the air and smatterings of snow pepper London and envelop the North of England. It is the coldest time of year and the buds and blossom of springtime seem light-years away. For now I’ll put on my favourite coat and enjoy the...
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The importance of subsea pipeline integrity management
Subsea pipeline integrity management In an industry where subsea assets are maturing and reaching the end of their design lives, good integrity management has never been more important. This webinar discusses the lessons learned and best practices in achieving effective pipeline integrity management. During the webinar, Jee’s head of integrity...
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The Affordable Care Act – Who Has It Helped The Most?
A new data set has been published that paints a clear picture of who gained insurance coverage during the 2014 open enrollment period, which ended on April 15, 2014. Recently featured in the New York Times, the data come from Enroll America, a non-profit organization focused on enrolling Americans in...
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Czech out my New Year!
Happy 2015! Like the sun slowly yawning over the horizon we ease into yet another year and reflect on how the last one went. For us at Business Review Webinars, 2014 was the biggest year ever as we produced and successfully delivered our largest number of webinars. We look forward...
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Have a Very Webinary Christmas!
Season’s greetings! First and foremost Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Wow, what a year it has been. At Business Review Webinars we’ve had our busiest ever year with 210 successful webinars and a transition onto a shiny new operating system. I hope Santa leaves me and my team an...
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Remember, Remember Fireworks and Movember
By Aneta Manningtonova Greetings everyone, November is a time for looking forwards and looking back. Forward to Christmas, the New Year and the adventures that they and the future offer. Looking backwards there are notable anniversaries approaching such as Guy Fawkes Night on November 5th and the centenary year of...
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Putting UX at the heart of R&D software
Remember when bringing home a new gadget meant sitting down and reading the instructions first? If you don’t then you were born UX. A.D. that is to say after User Experience (UX) came to dominate commercial technology. Today’s technology is increasingly mobile, UX-centric and focused on intuitive use. And these...
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Trials fail due to poor design. Don’t let yours be the next!
Flawed methods in clinical trials have had a big part to play in the poor track record for Neuroscience drug development with consequences for both patients and the pharmaceutical industry. Nowhere are the consequences for patients more acutely felt than in the area of Alzheimer’s drug development where the industry...
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See how a cloud-based solution can deliver, from leading industry experts at IFS, Microsoft and Aberdeen Group
If you want to understand how the cloud is relevant to your business, and how choosing to run IFS Applications on Microsoft Azure can deliver, then don’t miss the free webinar on December 1 at 3pm London / 10am New York. Leading the webinar...
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Forward-Looking Utilities Invest in the Next Wave of Outage Management Technologies to Future-Proof the Grid
Author: Clinton Davis, Vice President of Distribution Industry Solutions and Smart Grid, Ventyx, an ABB companyJoin Ventyx, an ABB company Webinar on the 2nd December where they discuss Achieving Reliability, Safety and Customer Satisfaction in Outage Life Cycle Management with IT/OT Integration. The average summertime high temperature in Austin, Texas, these days is...
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Long leafy walks, pubs with fires & Halloween…
By Aneta Manningtonova Greetings everyone, The return of crisp days and cold evenings means that we're on the verge of winter, but that's no excuse to hibernate! There are plenty of things to do this Autumn. October is all about long leafy walks, pubs with fires and fancy dress (for...
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We’ve done it this way. Why change?
By Kevin Kolmetz, Moog, Product Manager, LinkedIn, and Richard Kim, Moog, Engineering Manager, LinkedIn In the some parts of the oil and gas industry, you may hear people say, “We’ve done things a certain way. It works. Why change what works?” While an organization might have always used, for example,...
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Let scientists concentrate on innovation and continuous improvement, not admin
Biopharmaceutical professionals will be familiar with the scientists’ lament about the amount of time they waste trying to track down data or, worse still, having to re-run experiments because of missing data. The development of biological therapeutics is multifaceted by nature and increasingly requires collaboration and partnerships throughout the development...
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Change is in the Wind this September…
By Aneta Manningtonova It’s that time of year again; summer/winter has passed and the start of the busy period is upon us. For many of us, the kids are back in school (back to normality finally!) and work is about to get hectic. Here at Business Review Webinars, change is...
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Externalization – a Collaborative Future for Life Sciences R&D
Nowadays, trying to cover the entire research and development (R&D) life cycle in-house makes little economic sense. Externalization is viewed as an effective way of dealing with the twin challenges of managing the immense amount of data generated by modern drug discovery techniques as well as having to find ways...
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The Core Tenets of High Performance Supply Chains
A closer look at a Segmented Supply Chain Strategy BY PUNEET SAXENA, VP Manufacturing Solutions Strategy Leading manufacturing supply chains exhibit some common traits that result in superior performance. We call these traits the core tenets of high performance supply chains: Customer-centricity, segmentation, business-agility, synchronisation and optimisation. Of the five core tenets...
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Aneta Manningtonova’s Blog – August Edition
Welcome to the August summer edition of our Online Newsletter: Energy Talk. This issue is packed full of the latest information including our upcoming and on demand webinars and the latest news within the industry. In this month’s spotlight interview we would like to re-introduce Praveen Nagpal from Shell. Praveen will be discussing his thoughts on about his recent webinar...
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Aneta Manningtonova’s Blog – July Edition
Welcome to our July summer edition of our Online Newsletter: Energy Talk. This issue is packed full of the latest information including our upcoming and on demand webinars and the latest news within the industry. In this month’s spotlight interview we would like to introduce Praveen Nagpal from Shell. Praveen will be discussing his thoughts on his upcoming...
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Aneta Manningtonova’s Blog – June Edition
Welcome to our Online Newsletter: Supply Talk. This issue is packed full of the latest information including our upcoming and on demand webinars and the latest news within the industry. In this month’s spotlight interviews we would like to introduce Christian Menegon from HP. Christian will be discussing his thoughts on his upcoming webinar. As always,...
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Setting High Standards – How the Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) Standards are poised to change the way Utilities view their Land Mobile Radio investments.
For years the Utility Industry has depended on the reliability of Land Mobile Radio systems to support their most mission critical responsibility, public and employee safety. Land mobile radio systems are the lifeline between system operations and their field crews that are working in one of the most dangerous environments in our...
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How much power are you wasting?
Since late ‘90s renewable energy has been living a boom that would have shaped the future of the power sector in Europe and in the rest of the world. Renewable sources, specifically bioenergy, solar, wind and geothermal energy have been on the verge of a boom that proved to be...
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Aneta Manningtonova’s Blog – May Edition
Welcome to our Online Newsletter: Life Science Talk. This issue is packed full of the latest information including our upcoming and on demand webinars and the latest news within the industry. In this month’s spotlight interviews we would like to introduce Steve Burton from ProMetic BioSciences, Paul Denny-Gouldson from IDBS...
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What Can the Cloud Do for R&D?
Sri is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and software executive with a proven track record of successful business leadership. Sri currently serves as Vice President of Product Marketing for Intralinks, the leading beyond the firewall collaboration solutions provider for the life science industry. Prior to Intralinks, Sri spent several years advising...
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Is it really cost effective to develop a custom affinity ligand as a capture step in your downstream process?
My name is Andy Davies and I work at Prometic Biosciences as Sales & Marketing Director. One issue I always hear that is of concern to many process development scientists is the limited time to available to develop purification processes. This often restricts their choice of chromatography resins to those...
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Is a martensitic steel grade usable in a design temperature range up to 620 °C?
High process parameters have direct influence on the efficiency of a power plant. On one hand this can be realized by new boiler technologies and the development of new materials. On the other hand boiler designers face constrains when the temperature exceeds certain values of around more than 600°C. E.g....
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Great R&D isn’t just about what you know…But the why, when, where … and who
There are some people who know a lot about a little. There are those who know a little about a lot. Then there are the few who know pretty much about everything there is to know across a huge range of market verticals and how they relate to scientific domains…...
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An App takes top honours at eyeforpharma Awards
‘FoodSwitch’ mobile app from The George Institute voted the ‘Most Valuable HPC or Healthcare Initiative’ eyeforpharma Barcelona Awards: Tuesday 18th March, Barcelona 2014: In a unanimous decision by a panel of industry experts, ‘FoodSwitch’, an innovative mobile app created by The George Institute and Senior Director, Bruce Neal, won...
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Aneta Manningtonova’s Blog – April Edition
Welcome to our Online Newsletter: Life Science Talk. I am glad that so many of you liked our new design that we launched last month. This issue is packed full of the latest information including our upcoming and on demand webinars and the latest news within the industry. In this month’s...
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H.B. Fuller to showcase its insights on food safety in free webinar
Consumer demand for convenience has driven innovation in food packaging in recent years. However, equally important to consumers is reassurance that the food they purchase is safe, free from contamination by natural occurrences, as well as by packaging materials. That responsibility lies with everyone in the supply chain. The challenge...
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Is it possible FSMA could catch you out?
That’s the question for businesses exporting to the US. FSMA (The US Food Safety Modernisation Act) has been hanging over the US for several years now, with different regulations and updates being drip fed into the public area. FSMA was signed into law with the aim of providing safe food...
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Why is it important to think before you decide to buy?
We organised this Webinar to reach out to our clients and certainly also to the companies that are not our clients but also are faced with difficulties when it comes to develop gas and oil fields. It is my intention in the webinar to make sure that the companies that...
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Aneta Manningtonova’s Blog
Welcome to our new look Supply Talk Online Newsletter. This issue is packed full of the latest information including our upcoming and on demand webinars, the latest news and other important industry knowledge. In this month’s spotlight interview we would like to introduce Timothy Workman and Sara Martin from Plastics Color Corporation. They will be discussing...
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Vaisala: Sensor Placement in Validation/Mapping
Sensor Placement in Validation/Mapping: Where & How Many? Hi, my name is Paul Daniel, I am the Senior Regulatory Compliance Expert at Vaisala with 16 years of validation experience in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. Vaisala is a world leader in innovative solutions for measuring environmental parameters; we provide environmental monitoring,...
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A journey from a welder to developing model-based software
Michael Hodgson M. Hodgson has worked in the construction industry for over 25 years in various roles, from Fabricator to Draftsman to 3D CAD CAM software solutions supplier. As Technical Manager in Tekla Corporation, he facilitates numerous projects such as the Rayong Oil Refinery in Thailand, and London Heathrow Terminal...
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UMS Group: Investment Decisions to Your Strategy
Do you have too many mandatory projects, such that the remaining discretionary budget is too limited to be able to funnel it towards investments that will help you achieve your goals? Are there enough reliability-focused projects selected for funding to allow you to meet your targets? Or, for that matter,...
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Hemedex: Features and Benefits of using the Bowman Perfusion Monitor in Neurocritical Care and Neurosurgery
Q: How does continuous monitoring of Cerebral Blood Flow at the bedside help to improve outcomes for your Neurocritical Care patients and reduce cost to your institution? A: Real-time monitoring provides the earliest possible detection of critical flow thus enabling the earliest possible intervention and opportunity to...
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George Clinical: Can we do clinical trials differently?
Everyone talks about the need to do trials differently but very few actually achieve it. Unless, of course, it is to make things more intricate and expensive! Against a background of spiralling costs, struggling recruitment and every increasing complexity, the recently reported TASTE trial was a breath of fresh air. ...
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How can new technology improve the productivity of your microsphere formulation process?
Remy Wattiaux, Managing Director of Powder Systems Limited (PSL): Rémy Wattiaux is the Managing Director of PSL, a worldwide manufacturer of advanced process equipment. He has a master's degree in Medicine and a master's degree in Engineering and Project Management. Rémy has years of expertise including R&D in medicine and...
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COATED VIALS: A MORE EFFECTIVE PACKAGING THAT LOWERS THE RISKS
Glass has become one of the world’s leading primary packaging materials, yet still needs to be able to meet the growing requirements of the pharmaceutical industry. Sensitive new biomolecules and alternative manufacturing techniques such as lyophilization place incredibly high demands on pharmaceutical containers. In the pharmaceutical field, lyophilization is frequently...
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When is a good time to outsource the drug development of your promising therapeutic?
As companies dive deeper into the chemical well for new, patentable, and effective therapies, the most promising candidates are less soluble, less bioavailable, and more difficult to formulate to an effective therapeutic level. As a result, many commercially potential treatments are being left at the wayside in Preclinical and early...
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Do you know how to get 5 – 10 % extra power without extra fuel?
Many gas and diesel engines as well as other in industrial applications emit exhaust gas with 350⁰ C or more into the environment. Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) technology allows to convert this energy into electrical power with payback times as short as three years. Typical applications are biogas/anaerobic digestion, landfill...
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How much do you know about your shipment once it’s dispatched?
What the launch* of SenseAwareSM means for business managers worldwide… By Chris Swearingen, FedEx Global Marketing Manager- SenseAware SenseAwareSM is a first-of-its-kind service that provides near real-time access to a package’s vital statistics whilst in transit. A multi-sensor device, deeply integrated with a powerful web-based application, SenseAware enables customers in a...
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Fuel and Emission free electricity from an advanced Organic Rankine Cycle
Learn how plant electrical efficiency can be optimized using residual or waste heat. Watch's Triogen's video exploring their facility in The Netherlands. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg09yUrsDXQ
Mind your language – Are you able to produce local language labels?
Quite often a label remains the wrong point of focus in the manufacturing process. A broader view is required. Although it is a vital component in the production process, the actual label is one of many – a final output that is intrinsically linked, and indeed the product of, all...
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Are you getting a big enough bang for your buck in Process Development?
The updated FDA Guidance for Industry on Process Validation encourages an in-depth level of process understanding and ongoing life cycle continuous verification. The guidance explains that process validation consists of three stages: process design (process development studies), process qualification (evaluation of the process design) and continued process verification (life cycle...
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Are you prepared? The transition to Identification of Medicinal Products (IDMP)
The submission of data regarding human medicinal products in the European Union has been a requirement since July 2012 when it became mandatory to supply information to the Extended Eudravigilance Medicinal Product Dictionary (XEVMPD) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Was it a challenge for you to collect,...
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What level can YOU get to?
I’ve made it to level 3 so far! And a few others who I’ve sent the game to have had fun getting lost around the maze on Level 1. Have a go and see what you think of the new DSM Biologics game. They’ve developed...
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ARISGLOBAL NOMINATED FOR SCRIP AWARD: “BEST TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT IN CLINICAL TRIALS”
Total Clinical Platform Suite of eClinical Solutions Among the Short List of Nominees for 2013 Awards STAMFORD, CT— October 24, 2013—ArisGlobal, a leading provider of solutions to the life sciences industry, is recognized as a SCRIP Awards finalist in the “Best Technological Development in Clinical Trials” category for 2013 for...
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ArisGlobal of Stamford Connecticut is hosting its 25th Annual Safety Users’ Conference
ArisGlobal, of Stamford Connecticut, is hosting its 25th Annual Safety Users’ Conference, tailored to existing users of their award-winning suite of safety solutions. The conference will be held on November 12th - 15th, 2013 at the beautiful Mondrian South Beach hotel on the gleaming waterfront of Biscayne Bay in Miami's...
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Is it REALLY Possible to Manage Knowledge?
Back in June of this year, I attended the ELNs, Data Analytics, and Knowledge Management (EDKM) Summit in Boston, MA. It was a very interesting get-together and the one discussion that stuck with me was triggered by the keynote presentation delivered by Kevin Gillespie of Momenta. Kevin talked about how...
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Chemical Developement : How much process development is really required for rapid delivery of API?
When speed is of the essence to rapidly provide Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API’s), AMRI’s Syracuse Research Center can provide rapid response process development and kilo lab services. AMRI invites you to take a virtual tour of the AMRI Syracuse Research Center whose capabilities are aimed at rapid scale up and...
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Monkey-SIV cure, a new step towards a HIV vaccine?
A research published in the journal Nature shows that a vaccine has successfully cleared a monkey version of HIV from the bloodstreams of infected animals. The research team looked at the SIVmac239 (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus), a form of HIV found in monkeys, which is 100 times more aggressive and tend...
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Are Energy and Lighting OEMs doomed to shrinking profitability?
For over 5 years, smart grid and energy efficiency pundits hyped up a rosy future for OEMs by projecting almost unlimited demand for energy infrastructure projects. One could have been led to believe that utilities and their customers were queuing up to adopt the latest technologies. But then reality set...
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Business Review is Back!
It’s been a sun-filled summer here at Business Review and after our 2 month break of webinars we’re ready to get back to business, starting with our 3 pharma webinars coming up this week! 3M, Covance and Acurian are ready to discuss their business insight, new techniques and research...
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QA/QC Insight: Integrating the lab with SAP®, Part 1
Steve Bolton, Marketing Program Manager for the Ensemble for QA/QC informatics platform at PerkinElmer Informatics, has recently written a piece as part of the QA/QC Insight blog series. Within this he discusses opportunities that integration between the lab and SAP can provide for you. But are you worried about the...
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Do you maximise shutdown efficiency to minimise risk and downtime?
Meticulous planning and execution of shutdown maintenance work will minimise the risk to personnel while maximising efficiency and curtailing downtime of the asset. Take a look at our brochure to see what products and services we can offer or view some of our case studies. In your opinion what has...
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Is sulphur recovery really the least liked job on any site?
Well, it certainly can be messy and rich in operational issues that need instant attention. What’s the biggest issue you face? At Paqell, we cannot remove the need for sulphur removal but we can change the way it’s done. Remember the 80’s? Back then, Paques technologists were searching for a...
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