The facility needed to represent best practice in GMP (good manufacturing practice) and digital automation while remaining cost effective to build and operate.. Bryden Wood was engaged to review and optimise a previously developed concept design for the site’s dry processing (milling and sieving) building.

If this kind of analysis, or at least the insights from it, could be shared widely with the industry it could help accelerate interest and action, particularly in the generics ecosystem..Problem solving in the room.

Prompted by a thought that many players in this arena are waiting for engineering for technical solutions, there was a conversation about the complexity of the problem..This is a multimodal problem to solve; even though we had suppliers, manufacturers, laboratories, regulators, waste management, academia and design engineers in the room, we accepted not everybody was represented who needs to be.To move more quickly continued multi-agency conversations and collaborations are needed.. Collaborative problem solving on this scale requires the right skills.

Although some great engineers are coming out of universities, the curriculum has not adjusted quickly enough to emerging trends.Students are well-versed in chemical engineering skills; however, equipping them to work across boundaries within organisations, and across organisations to help change happen quickly, seems like a challenge for academia and industry.

Creating courses which span traditional academic bastions seems important, while developing graduates into dynamic, collaborative and imaginative problem solvers is the key challenge for business.. A huge issue that is often ignored, but fundamental to the truism of “reduce” being the most important step in sustainability, is the enormous overproduction, supply, and wastage of drugs in the global ecosystem..

Some medicines are manufactured, prescribed, and sold which have little or no positive impact on human health.Rates are also increasing, he says, with less work being done..

The role of DfMA and MMC in Australia.Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) and Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) are driving new ways of thinking in Australia, with uptake driven by schools and health.

However, Lamont says these methods aren’t in alignment with the old ways of making money, and so MMC costs remain high.There are also things happening purely from a compliance perspective, such as aluminum cladding replacement programs.