2018 Azbee Awards of Excellence

Category

Print > Original Research > Less Than $3 Million Revenue > Upper Midwest

Awarded to

Karen Langhauser, Chief Content Director

Entry details

Degrees of Digitalization

Issue date (if applicable): 10/1/2017
Publication name: Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Publishing company: Putman Media/ Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Website home page: www.pharmamanufacturing.com

Please describe the publication's mission and readership:

Readership: Pharmaceutical Manufacturing‘s print and digital products focus on the manufacturing, quality and scale-up functions critical to the pharmaceutical industry’s future. The brand serves a range of industry segments including small and large molecule manufacturers, biopharma, contract manufacturers and generic drug producers. Our audience of 25,000 print readers includes key operations-related decision makers with titles related to production and manufacturing, packaging, facility management, engineering, quality assurance, R&D, IT and corporate management.

Mission: Pharmaceutical Manufacturing provides actionable examples of how industry thought leaders are tackling the most pressing late-stage drug development, process optimization, manufacturing and supply chain challenges. Critical decision makers trust Pharmaceutical Manufacturing to deliver in-depth, timely coverage of today's evolving pharmaceutical landscape. The brand bridges the industry's communication gaps to help manufacturers achieve much-needed increases in efficiency and profitably in their ultimate mission to serve patients and save lives.

Please describe the enterprising work that went into this entry and its significance or impact on readers:

Drug shortages, global competition, stricter compliance mandates and pricing pressures in a post-blockbuster era are forcing the pharmaceutical industry to reevaluate antiquated operations. While the movement toward the Industrial Internet of Things has already started taking place in the pharmaceutical industry, it will not happen overnight. Even with the large investments in IIoT being made by so many industry giants, there are significant hurdles that need to be overcome for the benefits to be captured in the highly regulated, traditionally risk-averse pharmaceutical industry.

This article discusses the results of a robust “Smart Pharma” industry survey that compared responses from pharma manufacturers against the responses of vendors who sell to those manufacturers to get a comprehensive industry industry. The survey is a one-of-a-kind attempt to define "digital" in the pharmaceutical industry -- where the industry stands and the challenges it still faces.

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