Changes for the Pharmaceutical Industry

Every company needs to keep current with their industry changes. No company can afford to be ‘looking the other way’ when a new trend, regulation or technology enters their industry. The regulation that will make a significant impact on the pharmaceutical industry is serialization and track and trace. California is placing a firm deadline on serialization and track and trace for all pharmaceuticals sold in that state starting in 2015 and requiring full implementation by 2017. There will be no time extensions. The FDA is currently at work on national requirements for serialization and track and trace.

These requirements have spawned a new industry of companies that specialize in the development of software that will allow pharmaceutical manufacturers to implement a system that works for them. One of the best results of all the requirements is the partnering of different companies offering software and hardware that will allow pharmaceutical manufacturers to easily implement a system.

New England Machinery (NEM) is one of the companies that is willing to partner with the software and hardware supplier of choice to implement serialization and track and trace on their packaging machines. NEM’s unscramblers, cappers and other equipment can be very simply integrated into a full “Serialization/Track and Trace” production line. The ability of NEM’s machinery to integrate with any vendor gives the pharmaceutical companies the freedom to choose the system and software that works best for their facility.

What is required of setting up a system? Read my next blog to learn more.

The author, Marge Bonura, is the Director of Sales & Marketing for New England Machinery, Inc. (NEM). NEM is a leading packaging machinery manufacturer of bottle unscramblers, cappers, orienters, retorquers, lidders, pluggers, pump sorter/placers, scoop feeders, hopper elevators and much more. The company has been in business since 1974 selling to the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, personal care, chemical, household products, automotive and other industries. For more information on NEM, visit their website at www.neminc.com.