In an increasingly commoditized world of architectural/engineering firms that design and build pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities, how can facility managers be sure that they are getting an A&E firm that will produce a design that will work for them now and in the future? It comes down to experience versus expertise. Perusing the world wide web using search terms such as pharmaceutical or biotech facility design results in more results (2 million plus) than the busy pha

One of the most important and vexing problems that OSD facilities deal with is dust containment. This containment is an issue from the point where the raw materials are first opened for sampling, all the way through the manufacturing and packaging process. Almost every single operational step must deal with dust containment at some level. Some operations, like dispensing, milling, or compression create high levels of dust, while others, like wet granulation or packaging creat