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Article: Maintaining your profits through proper maintenance: equipment issues can strike the bottom line.(MANUFACTURING SUPPLEMENT )
- Article from:
- Nutraceuticals World
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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IN THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY it is of paramount importance that the equipment in your facility be well cared for. Time-sensitive products need to be packaged within a specific time frame. Unscheduled down-time and inefficient equipment can lead to catastrophic financial losses that can have a ripple effect upstream, wreaking havoc on your entire production line and leading to days, weeks or months of lost production.
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The one undeniable truth in manufacturing pharmaceutical products (or any product, for that matter) is that when you are not in production, you are not making money. A proper maintenance plan is often overlooked in ...