Best practices manufacturing

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The employees, particularly the workers at the plants that would be exposed to the hazards to safety and health created by the raw material, the intermediates, and the finished products and by-products. A plant that is unsafe to workers would not be able to recruit the most capable staff, would not be able to manufacture the best products, and would encourage the formation of militant labor unions and punitive regulations. It is in the self interest of the manufacturers to make sure that the workplace is safe and to adopt the best practice. There is also a recent tendency for manufacturing to move to regions and nations where plant safety rules are less rigorously posted and enforced. 

The cGMPs require manufacturers to have adequately equipped manufacturing facilities, adequately trained personnel, precisely controlled manufacturing processes, appropriate laboratory controls, complete and accurate records and reports, appropriate finished product examination, and so on. Current GMPs are not best practices rather, they establish threshold or minimum standards which must be satisfied in order for a pharmaceutical manufacturing operation to be compliant. 

Understanding, modeling, and then following processes, procedures, and best practice reusable processes are essential for every business to stay at the top. The pharmaceutical manufacturing system innovation business is not exception. 

As shown in this table, a zero discharge of process waste-water pollutants is required by EPA for all facets of the timber products industry except wet storage of legs, wet-process fiber products manufacture, and one segment of the wood preserving industry. This requirement, by definition, holds that a zero discharge is "the best practicable technology currently available" by which the affected industries can control pollution. 

If chlorinated solvents are used with titanium surfaces, they must be completely removed prior to bonding. Chlorinated solvents give rise to stress corrosion cracking in the vicinity of welds. Welding of titanium often occurs in the same plant as adhesive bonding, and it is sometimes done on the same parts. So the best practice is to avoid the use of chlorinated solvents completely. Several airframe manufacturers that fabricate titanium alloys no longer permit the use of chlorinated solvents. 

Suspended solids are typically measured using turbidity. Turbidity measures the light-scattering ability of particles in water. The water quality guidelines call for an influent turbidity of less than 1 Nephelometric Turbidity Units (NTU), which also happens to be a warranty requirement of membrane manufacturers. Exceed 1 NTU and the membrane warranty is voided. The lower the turbidity, the less likely the membranes are to foul with suspended solids. RO best practices call for feed water turbidity less than 0.5 NTU. 

Silt density index measures suspended solids, particularly colloids, such as alumina- or iron silicates, clay, iron corrosion products, and microbes, that have a great potential for fouling RO membranes (see Chapter 3.8 for more details about SDI). The SDI should be as low as possible to minimize fouling of the membranes, but must be less than 5 to meet warranty requirements set by the membrane manufacturers (best practices call for SDI in RO feed water to be less than 3). Note that there is no direct correlation of turbidity to SDI, other than high turbidity usually means high SDI (the converse is not always true). 

Sharing manufacturing best practices and internal benchmarks can be a major source of value, especially when a deal unites players with widely different levels of skill. A typical deal of this sort would be a merger between a large global player and a smaller one, perhaps controlled, until recently, by the state. 

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