Pharmaceutical Facility Management

Business entities have come to realize that maintaining a well-managed and highly efficient facility is critical to success. New technologies, security issues and health concerns also have had a major impact on the importance of, and need for, facility professionals in organizations. Plant managers must therefore be equipped with a tremendous amount of knowledge and the ability to cope with and solve a multitude of complex problems and challenges. The current climate of increased inspections and scrutiny from the regulatory authorities on manufacturing, combined with the uncertainty of the equity markets, has elevated GMP compliance to a long-term business strategy. This unique book covers the often overlooked field of pharmaceutical facility management. In a running pharmaceutical plant, the plant manager often has to manage a wide range of activities including production, machine maintenance, building maintenance, training of personnel, validation programs, environmental monitoring and last but not the least – managing regulatory inspections. This wide spectrum of activities entails the involvement of people from production, quality control, engineering, quality assurance, housekeeping etc. thus demanding a lot of time and efforts from the plant manager to effectively synchronize all these activities. This book will help in designing and implementing all these required activities and help in streamlining the total functioning of a pharmaceutical facility. This is a must-have book that all plant mangers and others involved with a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility should have on their tables for ready reference.