Human
error is the cause of most pharmaceutical manufacturing failures, according to Martin
Boisvert. The traditional approach has been to pass as much of the operation as
possible on to machines and computers, which tend to be more reliable. New
advances in workflow software, however, now make human actions more reliable by
guiding them in implementing standard procedures. This combines machine-like
efficiency and accuracy with the flexibility of human operation.
This
is the basis of an article published on Pharmaceutical Online. Here is an
extract: “Workflow software ensures that, in response to a designated event,
operators have at hand all information necessary to perform time-critical
interventions that might be necessary to carry out stored maintenance
sequences, error correction protocols or other standardized procedures. For any
given problem, workflow assures that the right people, have the right
information, at the right time.”
Posted by Dr. Tim Sandle
