Management systems in the bio- / chemical industry
The trend of concentrating on core business fields and the elimination of side activities is uninterrupted. To ensure continued growth of core activities, companies eliminate areas with insignificant synergy potential. In addition, the product variety increases while the product life cycle decreases, hence products have to be introduced to the market at a much faster rate. In addition to generally increasing requirements and expanded levels of detail with customer orientation, the legal documentation and obligation to produce verification is on the rise as well.
The continuously increasing demand of quality products and services dictates highly regulated production and handling processes in biotechnology. In market segments, such as the food and cosmetic industry only the regulated processes like GMP for instance or other international regulations complying with FDA, IFS-BRC or HACCP are accepted. The constantly growing pressure imposed upon companies by expanded quality standards originated from different aspects such as preserving consumer interests and safety standards as well ad market globalization.
The legal regulations of the value chain and high customer expectations impose a significantly higher effort on the chemical industry as well as bio and environmental technology companies. This affects the existence of small and medium size companies especially. The demand to guarantee continuous compliance with the standards or even adapting to new regulations parallel to company growth, frequently are insurmountable barriers for these companies.
Therefore it is of even more importance to register, control and optimise documents, data and requirements in one system. The integration of management tools should play a large role for merging existing systems in a profitable manner. An extensive process analysis is required prior to the implementation of an integrated management system to generate the advantages derived from the company’s organisational efforts:
- Efficiency increase by optimising processes and procedures
- Improvement of national and international competition ability
- Integration of industry-specific, regulated supplier structures
- Immediate innovation transfer to new process technologies
- Decreasing cost by new requirements in employee qualification
and the optimised use of human resources. - Complete traceability of all manufactured products
- Documenting all production and quality assurance processes
- Establishing a legally stable and operational organisation
The overall compliance with the requirements of efficient and standard production processes while focusing on foreign markets and one’s own profitability cannot be achieved without the aid of IT systems. This affects small companies to the same extent as large corporations, because the conformation effort is often not relevant to the size of the company.
Please note our project references in the bio/chemical sector.
