In manufacturing, downtime is a four-letter word, while unplanned downtime is an unforgivable curse. You know it’s bad, but do you know how bad? These 7 statistics illustrate just how much of an impact downtime can have on your business: In 2016, the average cost of downtime across all businesses was $260,000 per hour. That […]
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Is Waiting Killing Your Throughput…and Your Bottom Line?
When you think about your production lines, do you have a vague sense that you could be producing more / better / faster, but aren’t sure exactly what’s standing in your way? This is common. We talk to many plant managers who know they should be getting more out of their lines, but aren’t sure […]
Transferring Products Across a Gap? Why the Simplest Solution Is the Best
You’ve heard this story before: During the space race of the 1960s, NASA realized that regular pens, which rely on gravity, don’t work in space. So, the agency spent millions of dollars to develop a pressurized pen that astronauts could use in low-gravity environments. The Russians used a pencil. It isn’t true — NASA astronauts […]
Why Vaccine Makers Need to Improve Their Part of the Cold Chain
The vaccine cold chain is a complex system with many moving parts and multiple levels of accountability, including manufacturers, distributors, and providers. Every link in this chain is vulnerable to improper temperatures, which can render vaccines ineffective. Most of the information about the cold chain and how to improve it focuses on what happens after […]
Eliminating the Risk of Glass Particulate Contamination on High-Speed Pharma Processing Lines
No one in the pharma industry wants a recall. Not only are they expensive and potentially reputation-damaging, but they mean that patients may have been put at risk. Foreign matter contamination is a leading cause of recalls for injectables. In fact, the presence of visible particles accounted for 22% of FDA recalls of sterile injectable […]
3 Ways Vaccine Makers Can Help Ensure the Effectiveness of Their Products
In case you missed them, here are a few recent headlines that made the rounds: Ventura County administered thousands of vaccines that may not have worked Temperature mishap at clinic means children will need second vaccination shots Tetanus vaccine delivered in Leduc potentially ineffective: AHS In all three of these cases, the vaccines were rendered […]
Garvey Automatic Vial Dryer Keeps Vaccines Effective by Reducing Time Out of the Cold Chain
Unique system slashes vial drying times from 24-48 hours down to 5-15 minutes, helping pharmaceutical manufacturers maintain the cold chain during labeling and inspection BLUE ANCHOR, N.J. (PRWEB) MAY 23, 2019 The recent measles outbreaks have highlighted the importance of vaccination in protecting public health. In the United States alone, childhood immunizations are credited with […]
Types of Industrial Conveyors: Table Top vs. Mat Top
Are you designing a new line or redesigning an existing one? Many food, beverage, and pharma manufacturers today are revamping their processes to boost productivity and achieve higher throughput. Obviously, the actual processing machines are important, but so is the equipment that moves product from one machine to another, i.e., the conveyors. Let’s look at […]
Garvey Keeps Food Production Lines Running with Industry-First Solution for Accumulation, Orientation, and Single-Filing
3D Infinity™ Accumulator can orient and single-file almost any food product at unmatched speeds, boosting throughput and reducing product loss by up to 30% BLUE ANCHOR, N.J. (PRWEB) APRIL 05, 2019 Snack cakes, granola bars, ready meals — these are just a few of the products that can now be accumulated, oriented, and single-filed on high-speed […]
How Accumulation Solves 3 Common Problems on Pharma Production Lines
If you’re a regular reader of our blog, then you know that we’re big into maximizing throughput by helping food and beverage companies unleash the hidden capacity in their production lines. The pharma industry is a bit different. Like food and beverage processors, pharma manufacturers also face pressure to reduce processing time and increase output, […]