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Businesses today thrive by focusing on
what they do best and leaving the rest to others. Contract manufacturing
seems to fit neatly into this practice. In addition to allowing companies to
focus on core competencies, contract manufacturers offer numerous other
advantages over in-house manufacturing, including lower costs, flexibility,
access to external expertise and reduced capital.
Even with solid assumptions, it may be a struggle to achieve the hoped-for
benefits. That's largely because it's difficult to manage complex
relationships. Ideally, the parties would create perfect plans that would
make it possible to manage the relationship
Instead, organizations need to take a strategic approach to
contract-manufacturing relationships. Here we explain how businesses can do
this by rigorously assessing when and why to use contract manufacturers,
setting the appropriate working model and developing an effective
organization
Contract Manufacturing: Win-Win Strategy
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Success in contract
manufacturing is lead by factors such as product quality, cost
competitiveness, delivery schedule and CM/Customer relationship.
In today's competitive environment, the contract manufacturing
business is quite challenging The development of new components and
technologies demands high capital investment and specialized
resources. The increasing complexity of pharmaceutical products has
phased out manual operating methods and forced manufacturers to
utilize hi-tech automatic manufacturing techniques. This works out
to be more cost-effective for them since their internal resources
can be focused on more important aspects of business such as product
development and marketing. This trend has led to a boom in a
phenomenon called contract manufacturing (CM). The CM business in
the field of pharmaceutical is growing rapidly worldwide, and is
expected to further accelerate at a very robust rate over the next
five years. Globally. It has been observed that production equipment
being used by different manufacturers is quite similar. In
manufacturing, much of the cost competitiveness comes from the
manufacturing process yield. This yield can be increased through an
accurate control and handling of the manufacturing equipment,
careful selection of materials and their proper handling on the
product line. In other words, the manufacturing process yield
depends on the knowledge of the production process expertise, and
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Winning Factors in Contract Manufacturing
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Contract manufacturing has
undergone a tremendous change with the transition from through-hole
to surface-mount technology. New material and new formulation
techniques have been developed. Consumer awareness and global
competition has made it mandatory for manufacturers to produce
high-quality products at minimum cost within the delivery schedule.
In addition, a thorough understanding of current manufacturing
technologies is essential. Factors important for achieving success
in CM are product quality, cost competitiveness, delivery schedule
and CM/Customer relationship. |
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Product Quality
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Perhaps the most important thing
in contract manufacturing is to produce high-quality products. This
is not a very difficult task for Servocare Lifesciences Modern hi-tech
automatic manufacturing processes are available of manufacturing
consistently high-quality products.
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Cost Competitiveness
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Servocare Lifesciences experts
expect that its pharmaceutical industry will quadruple over the next
2 yr .We are using latest tunnel systems.Which is a capital
intensive, quality & cost competitive ' process. Our mission to
protect and promote public health. We fulfil our mission in several
ways: -Servocare Lifesciences contributes to the availability of good
medicinal products on national & international level by
stimulating the development of innovative new medicines, by
assisting pharmaceutical companies with approval procedures, by
evaluating the safety, efficacy and quality of new medicines prior
to authorisation and by constantly monitoring them once they are on
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Delivery Schedule
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Time is money for us. As All
Contract manufacturer demand that their products be delivered within
contractual time frames. The success of a CM largely depends on
whether it is capable of meeting this requirement of Customers.
Maintaining a Consistent and strict delivery schedule involves close
planning of the entire production. Such a planning involves; Control
of incoming materials. Maintaining an operating schedule of the
production line. This can be taken care of by determining the number
of lines and shifts needed, the manpower required and the process
yield at Servocare Lifesciences.
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CM/Customers Relationship
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We know that the success of
contract manufacturing depends on the mutual understanding between
the contract manufacturer and the customers. The former must know
how to service the latter, and must make clear his requirements (to
the customer) in advance. The relationship depends on mutual trust,
and hence the communication between the two parties must remain
open. This will help both the sides to understand the requirements
of maintaining the partnership. |
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Managing the Manufacturing Shop Floor
Servocare Lifesciences In
manufacturing, obtaining a better yield through controlling the
process, process optimization, understanding and implementing new
technologies, and providing training and motivation to the
production floor personnel. Controlling the process : Process
control is a tool which helps the manufacturer to run the process in
such a way that results are as per the specifications. Process
control is performed by:
- determining process control limits (using the process window)
- Monitoring process results (data collection)
- Analyzing the collected data, and
- Implementing corrective actions, if necessary
The manufacturing process consists of a number of steps, and
for each manufacturing step there are process parameters with upper
and lower control limits. The desired setting of machines and their
tolerance can be derived out of this measurement. It is advisable to
document and describe in detail all agreed specifications and
determined process parameters. This document called 'process
description' is an important document for controlling and optimizing
the manufacturing process. After the individual process parameters
have been determined and defined, the total production line needs to
be set up according to the process description document.The most
tangible aspect of process optimization is the balancing of cycle
time of the manufacturing line. The process description also needs
to be updated.
We are providing training and motivation to manufacturing
personnel. Today, manufacturing equipment is very sophisticated. The
person operating them should have a thorough knowledge of machines,
their working principles, various parameters, the manufacturing
process, materials and so on. Moreover, to use sophisticated
equipments effectively, employees working on the production floor
must be adequately trained. Unfortunately, some manufacturing
organizations are ready to invest time and money in purchasing
sophisticated equipment but not on training their personnel. It
should be realized that training of the manpower is never an
expenditure. It is an investment which brings quick returns. Skills
and knowledge can never be acquired overnight through unorganized
training, We are running many training program ideally in-house a
and, if the expertise is not available, professional
bodies/institutes may be contacted. The most important way to
succeed in the CM (contract manufacturing) business is motivating
and training the manpower. Technology and material-related issues
can be resolved through a judicious use of resources, but producing
quality product depends heavily on the training and motivation of
people on the production floor. |
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Conclusion
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The Contract Manufacturing
business is growing at a very good pace, and Servocare Lifesciences
is making profitable use of this opportunity. Our success as
Contract Manufacturer in the field of pharmaceutical formulation
depends mainly on our product quality, low production cost, on-time
delivery and the CM/Customer, Client relationship. Positively,
Process optimization and training of production personnel is also
playing a crucial role to achieve goals of our organization.
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