A couple years ago, I wrote an article in this blog entitled HEPA filters 101 https://www.jwconsultingengineers.com/post/2019/04/14/hepa-...

Selecting a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) for use in the Bio-Pharma industry is somewhat different than for other...

Facility master planning takes many forms and is an important exercise. Facilities that are not planned can be at best inefficient or...

As we cannot get the 2020 year behind us fast enough, our thoughts often go to the new year and what it may bring. Well as is often said,...

A friend of mine recently sent me a copy of a letter that his wife (who has Lupus) received from her doctor. It asked her to make an...

In the current climate of stay at home orders, social distancing and travel restrictions, there is still a need to get business done....

The United States Pharmacopeia (USP) chapter 1079 defines Mean Kinetic Temperature (MKT) as “the single calculated temperature at which...

I was recently talking to a colleague that I have known and worked with for a long time. It came to light that neither of us (she very...

Spray drying is a method of producing a dry powder from a liquid or slurry by rapidly drying with a hot gas. This is the preferred method...

A month ago, in this blog, I wrote about some good things that might come out of this crisis we are in now and I still support that...

My purpose in writing this article is not to downplay Corona Virus. I also do not intend to disparage anyone who catches this or has...

I find very few people who aren’t super busy in today’s work world. If not right now, then most of us have been there in the past. Too...

It is that time of year when many of us make resolutions to improve our lives. If you don’t want to revisit the time-tested decrees of...

In the last 10 years or so, there has been more movement in the Biopharma industry to use risk-based qualification and one outcome of...

Design/Bid/Build (DBB) In the Design/Bid/Build (DBB) project method, the owner deals with an designers and builders in discreet steps of...

The short answer is “No, they are not the same thing” Many of OSHA’s safety standards for Construction and General Industry (e.g., 29 CFR...

Value Engineering or VE as it is sometimes called is often a fancy way of saying “Our projected project cost is higher than our budget,...

Reducing cost is perhaps the most often cited reason for hiring sub-consultants to perform tasks that otherwise would be performed in...

​ ​Are you a technical expert in your field of engineering, IT, accounting, or science who now has management responsibilities? Are you...