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Please note the following meeting

Royal Statistical Society
Quality Forum

Thursday 8th June 2000 
2 to 4.30pm
RSS Headquarters, 12, Errol Street, London, near Barbican

Quality Improvement in the Pharmaceutical Industry

The meeting will be informal with plenty of opportunity for discussion.
There will be two talks on different aspects of the important contribution
that statistics and statisticians make to the success of pharmaceutical
companies.

Phil Woodward of Pfizer Ltd will talk about:
The use of statistics in the design and development of drug products and
processes.

Statisticians have an important role to play in the non-clinical aspects
of drug development.  This talk focuses on the collaboration with
scientists who design and develop the drug product and its manufacturing
process.  The statistical methods used are much more closely related to
those used by industrial statisticians than by the clinical statisticians
in the pharmaceutical industry.  Some examples of how quality is "built
in" at the design stage will be provided.  I will also provide some
comparisons between the use of statistics in the pharmaceutical and
automotive industries, having worked in both sectors.

Max Porter and Robin Nicolson of Glaxo Wellcome International Actives
Supply will talk about:
Applying statistics to deliver excellence in manufacturing active
pharmaceuticals.

Statistical methods are applied throughout the life-cycle of an active
pharmaceutical.  For manufacturing, the major phases in this cycle are 
 the delivery of new products and processes from research and development
 process improvement to ensure secure supply in routine manufacturing 
 cost reduction for mature products.  
At each phase different business and regulatory compliance needs are met
by application of statistical methods.  These business processes will be
discussed, illustrated by examples of statistical applications including
designing experiments for validating new processes and ensuring world
class performance using SixSigma concepts. Furthermore the business
environment is changing, thus the roles undertaken by statisticians are
also changing. We need to be aware of this.

Everyone is welcome to attend. Tea and coffee will be served at 3pm.


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