Statistical good manufacturing

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Other offices within ODER may become involved in the review process via consults. Eor example, the Office of Epidemiology and Biostatistics analyzes statistical data, the Office of Research Resources provides bioavailabiHty reviews, and the Office of Compliance determines from the results of inspections whether the firms meet EDA s Current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) regulations. Advisory committees composed of independent experts are often asked to meet and further analyze the data. Often they also advise as to what additional data and information may be needed. After PDA s review is completed, PDA issues either a Summary Basis of Approval (SBA) for the dmg or a recommendation against approval. If approved, PDA releases the SBA and a summary of the safety and effectiveness data to the general pubHc. 

Good manufacturing practices (GMP) are essential in medical extrusion and involve both a high level of sanitation and process reproducibility. Process reproducibility can be quantified with statistical techniques that have been developed in the field of statistical process control (SPC). Therefore, SPC is a necessary requirement in medical extrusion [107]. GMP also requires full documentation and traceability. With respect to medical extruder machine design, the following aspects are of great importance ... 

Cliff N. 1993. Dominance statistics Ordinal analyses to answer ordinal questions. Psychol Bull 114 494-509. FDA (Food and Drug Administration). 1996. Current good manufacturing practice, quality control procedures, quality factors, notification requirements, and records and reports, for the production of infant formula. Proposed rule. Fed Regist 61 36153—36219. 

Neural network classifiers. The neural network or other statistical classifiers impose strong requirements on the data and the inspection, however, when these are fulfilled then good fully automatic classification systems can be developed within a short period of time. This is for example the case if the inspection is a part of a manufacturing process, where the inspected pieces and the possible defect mechanisms are well known and the whole NDT inspection is done in repeatable conditions. In such cases it is possible to collect (or manufacture) as set of defect pieces, which can be used to obtain a training set. There are some commercially available tools (like ICEPAK [Chan, et al., 1988]) which can construct classifiers without any a-priori information, based only on the training sets of data. One has, however, always to remember about the limitations of this technique, otherwise serious misclassifications may go unnoticed. 

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (20) has Hsted 416,000 persons employed as welders, cutters, and welding machine operators, with 90% employed in the fields of manufacturing, services, constmction, and wholesale trades. The same report projects a decline in employment for welders job prospects remain good, however, as the number of qualified workers entering the market is expected to balance workers leaving the field. 

If an analytical test results in a lower value x, < x0, then the customer may reject the product as to be defective. Due to the variation in the results of analyses and their evaluation by means of statistical tests, however, a product of good quality may be rejected or a defective product may be approved according to the facts shown in Table 4.2 (see Sect. 4.3.1). Therefore, manufacturer and customer have to agree upon statistical limits (critical values) which minimize false-negative decisions (errors of the first kind which characterize the manufacturer risk) and false-positive decisions (errors of the second kind which represent the customer risk) as well as test expenditure. In principle, analytical precision and statistical security can be increased almost to an unlimited extent but this would be reflected by high costs for both manufacturers and customers. 

There is a tendency among control and statistics theorists to refer to trial and error as one-variable-at-a-time (OVAT). The results are often treated as if only one variable were controlled at a time. The usual trial, however, involves variation in more than one controlled variable and almost always includes uncontrolled variations. The trial-and-error method is fortunately seldom a random process. The starting cycle is usually based on manufacturers specifications or experience with a similar process and/or material. Trial variations on the starting cycle are then made, sequentially or in parallel, until an acceptable cycle is found or until funds and/or time run out. The best cycle found, in terms of one or a combination of product qualities, is then selected. Because no process can be repeated exactly in all cases, good cure cycles include some flexibility, called a process window, based on equipment limitations and/or experience. 

Select a total QC strategy to provide an appropriate balance between statistical and nonstatistical QC procedures. With 90% error detection, depend on the statistical QC component and perform the minimal preventive maintenance, instrument function checks, and method validation tests required by good laboratory practice, manufacturers instructions, and regulatory and accreditation guidelines. 

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