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A Quick Guide to 21 CFR Part 11 Compliance in Life Sciences
Industries regulated by the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) must follow a strict set of standards intended to protect consumers’ health and safety. [...]
What Is Planned Maintenance Percentage (PMP)?
Planned Maintenance Percentage (PMP) is a maintenance key performance indicator (KPI) that evaluates the effectiveness of your planned maintenance by comparing your planned maintenance hours [...]
Why GMP and GLP Compliance Matter in Manufacturing
In drug discovery, chemicals must undergo thorough testing before they can be safely administered to the public. This makes it critical to prevent the cross-contamination [...]
OEE: Overall Equipment Effectiveness Calculation
Maintenance key performance indicators (KPIs) measure critical factors that directly impact your organization’s success. An important metric in the maintenance world is Overall Equipment Effectiveness [...]
How eMaint CMMS Helps Life Sciences Maintain Regulatory Compliance
Computer System Validation (CSV) or re-validation is required by companies operating in the life sciences industry either when implementing a new software system or [...]
What is Scheduled Maintenance?
In manufacturing, time is money. Unexpected downtime can translate to hundreds of thousands of dollars lost for every hour that production is stalled. An effective [...]
What is Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)?
What is Mean Between Failures (MTBF)? Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) indicates the average length of time between equipment breakdowns. Usually expressed in hours, MTBF [...]
What Is Deferred Maintenance?
Deferred maintenance refers to postponing maintenance tasks — whether planned or unplanned — usually due to lack of budget. Over time, deferred maintenance tasks accumulate, [...]
How to Complete an Asset Criticality Assessment
The supply chain disruptions beginning in 2020 and continuing into 2022 have greatly affected the manufacturing landscape, making asset availability for production more important than [...]
Asset Criticality Analysis: Effectively Rank Assets by ‘Criticalness’
An Asset Criticality Assessment (ACA) is most impactful when assets are ranked by "criticalness" rather than criticality. "Criticalness" is a deeper, more nuanced approach than [...]