GUEST COLUMNISTS

• Rethinking CQV In A Digital, Agile Manufacturing Landscape

  While commissioning, qualification, and validation (CQV) remains foundational, the way it is planned and executed must evolve to keep pace with modern manufacturing realities.

• Will FDA's One-Day Inspection Pilot Stand The Test Of Time?

  FDA's complementary pilot could help weed through a persistent examination backlog, but uncertainty and upheaval in leadership at the top puts its future in question.

• A Multi-Agent Audit Intelligence Framework For CDMO Quality Oversight

  A Takeda quality executive demonstrates how a team of AI agents uses synthetic data to provide decision support ahead of CDMO audits.

• Why Contamination Control By Design Should Matter To Your CDMO

  EU GMP Annex 1 mandates a documented contamination control strategy, and FDA expectations are substantively equivalent. Let's look at why CDMOs are disproportionately exposed.

• Repeating Sanofi's Ballroom Design On Two Continents

  Moveable walls and a stunning number of robotics at its sites in France and Singapore, among other features, has earned Sanofi international recognition for innovation.

• Closing The MES Value Gap: Why Technology Isn't The Problem

  Manufacturing execution system (MES) technical maturity is rising, but adoption across manufacturing sites is uneven. Organizational readiness may hold the key.

• Why Are Life Science Companies So Poorly Prepared For RIM's Future?

  Most organizations have modernized their global regulatory information management (RIM) systems and improved data quality. Yet modernization and readiness are not the same thing.