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Electronic batch records5 min read

Paper on glass is still paper

Indian API manufacturers are digitising batch records by putting their paper forms on tablets. That removes the paper but keeps every weakness of the paper record, and it spends validation effort on the part of the record that mattered least.

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Electronic batch records

  1. Electronic batch records5 min read

    Paper on glass is still paper

    Indian API manufacturers are digitising batch records by putting their paper forms on tablets. That removes the paper but keeps every weakness of the paper record, and it spends validation effort on the part of the record that mattered least.

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Plant cyber resilience

  1. Plant cyber resilience5 min read

    Count the hours to restart, not the attacks blocked

    Cyber reports to Indian boards still lead with blocked attacks and patch percentages. For a manufacturer the measure that matters is how long it would take to make and ship medicine again from a clean start, and most companies have never timed it.

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Computerised system validation

  1. Computerised system validation5 min read

    Validate the risk, not the binder

    Validation of plant and laboratory software in Indian pharmaceutical companies is still judged by the thickness of its documents. A risk-based approach spends less effort on paper and more on testing whatever could harm a patient or corrupt a record.

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