Manufacturing

Brent Wilhelm of Cencora talks about real-time demand data, last-mile carrier risk, and a $1 billion investment in cold chain pharma resilience.

Megha Sinha, Kolter AI, talks on how orchestrator roles surged in pharma AI, but teams need computed plans, not titles, to close the skills gap.

Novo Nordisk’s complaint contends that Lilly's campaigns leave out information about the most effective injectable doses of Wegovy (semaglutide) and Ozempic (semaglutide) currently on the market.

The use of artificial intelligence is facing harder questions of governance and data quality, and regulators in the United States and the European Union are streamlining pathways to market.

Brent Wilhelm, Cencora, talks on last-mile drug delivery risks, carrier network visibility, weather disruptions, and how AI could improve routing.

Checking in at 2026's midyear mark, LGM Pharma's Mike Stenberg revisits his 2025 predictions on inspections, onshoring, GLP-1 delivery, and AI adoption.

Megha Sinha, Kolter AI, discusses how digital twins run pharma supply chains but miss the regulatory execution needed to launch changes across markets.

Brent Wilhelm, Cencora, discusses why pharma supply chains still run on historical demand data and how AI could close the real-time visibility gap.

Richard Jaenisch surveys pharma's biggest recent AI deals with Chris Cole in part one of a two-part breakdown of the major moves.

FDA proposes a hub-and-spoke manufacturing registration rule and approves three drugs for multiple myeloma, IgA nephropathy, and bladder cancer.

Epista's Henrik Johanning revisits his 2026 predictions on QRM, Annex 1, AI governance, and regulatory convergence: What's tracking, what isn't.

Force-displacement monitoring and LVDT verification may solve the cartridge press-fit challenge for greater than 99.5% yield.

CRB Group Fellow James Golden explains why solvent-driven hazardous-material infrastructure can become a major cost driver in oligonucleotide manufacturing facilities.

The future factory will be defined by how well automation tools work together with people, processes, and quality systems to make pharmaceutical manufacturing faster, smarter, more transparent, and more reliable.

A proposed rule by the agency would create a streamlined registration pathway for advanced distributed manufacturing establishments.

PharmTech spoke with Jamie Evans, manager of analytical method development and validation, and Joe Cobb, CPIP, manager of formulations, both with Lonza Capsugel, about best practices for pharmaceutical technology transfer.

To drive long-term success, CROs need to strengthen their focus on efficiency, automation, data integrity, and compliance to generate higher ROI for clients.

FDA's 12-digit NDC rule demands industry-wide barcode, labeling, and data system overhauls, manufacturers must act now to avoid pharma's Y2K moment.

BioPhorum launches a 20-member collaboration uniting pharma, CDMOs, and regulators to address manufacturing challenges in small molecule drug production.

The outsourcing company is adding commercial-scale capabilities to manufacture HPAPI and ADC payload-linkers.

The companies have been selected to participate in the pilot program to expand domestic pharmaceutical manufacturing and strengthen the US drug supply chain.

This week, the industrialization of advanced biologics, sustained regulatory and investment momentum behind next-generation therapeutics, and an ongoing push across the supply chain to improve standardization and efficiency were themes covered on PharmTech.

AI is reshaping GMP documentation and quality workflows, but human accountability remains non-negotiable, and the regulatory consequences for over-relying on AI are real.

Kristin Ciriello Pothier, KPMG US, discusses deal discipline, manufacturing diligence, and why oncology and GLP-1s are driving biopharma M&A activity in 2026.

The future of synthetic biology will depend not only on the ability to design biological systems, but on the capacity to manufacture DNA reliably at scale within regulated frameworks.