Overview

Over the past years the management of maintenance has become a topic of greater and greater strategic importance for pharmaceutical manufacturers. Factors such as productivity, safety, risk management as well as regulatory demands have been nurturing this trend. All maintenance activities must ensure compliance with GMP standards, which requires validated documentation to guarantee traceability and controllability.

Without effective pharmaceutical maintenance procedures, product producers are taking the risk of equipment failures, causing key pieces of machinery to break down. In certain cases, this one piece of equipment may result in the closure of an entire production line. If companies do not put proper servicing procedures in place, their equipment is going to fail or become inconsistent in its operation. In this state, pharmaceutical maintenance and repair costs will be high, since it will mainly consist of recovering from catastrophic break downs. A good maintenance management system helps a company’s engineering department to plan and schedule their work. It also helps them to manage spare parts, track who worked on a piece of equipment, and who signed off on it. In order to prevent the occurrence of any incidents manufacturers of pharmaceuticals need a strategic approach to maintenance.

The relevance of maintenance activities is underlined by the ISPE Good Practice Guide for Maintenance, which provides current, established practices to help achieve technical and regulatory accuracy and cost-effective compliance whether in a new maintenance program or reviewing an existing program for effective strategy and efficiency. The current trend spilling over from the US is an increased inspection of compliance through the FDA. While maintenance used to be the last thing audited on a Friday afternoon it has changed to become one of the first things on a Monday Morning! Maintenance management may thus still not be sexy, but it is attractive and important enough to have good money spent on it.

The third annual “Global Maintain Pharma Masters”, taking place in Düsseldorf, will discuss strategic approaches to handling and management of pharmaceutical plants for engineering and maintenance Head ofs. This econique conference provides an excellent opportunity for networking with senior executives of Maintenance, Engineering, Technical Services, Technical Operations and Processing departments from all pharma, biotech & GMP manufacturing companies from all over Europe and will discuss challenges and demands on complex and strategic maintenance activities.

With international top speakers on a senior executive level, the Global Pharma Maintenance Masters will establish a new approach to finding the right maintenance excellence strategy for pharmaceutical manufacturers in Europe and worldwide.

We look forward to welcoming you in Düsseldorf!

If you would like to read the complete conference programme please contact:

Moritz Wagner
Conference Producer

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