The scale up and transfer of a new product or process to manufacturing is problematic in many organisations, as internal stakeholders often have very different needs. The development team want to transfer the new product or process to manufacturing as soon as possible, but the manufacturing group want to delay the transfer, as long as possible, until all scale up issues are sorted. This can lead to wasted time and effort that results in extended scale up and transfer timelines and cost over runs.
BSM helps companies to deliver new product or process scale up projects on time and within budget. Specifically BSM will:
- Project manage single or multiple scale up and transfer projects
- Lead a multifunctional scale up and transfer team
- Establish detailed integrated scale up and transfer plans
- Determine new product and / or process objectives for early production runs and transfer
- Design and implement scale up and transfer templates and checklists
- Document new standard operating procedures (SOP’s) for scale up and transfer
- Implement best practices in Scale Up and Transfer processes.
For scale up and transfer projects BSM believes in:
- Cross functional scale up and transfer team
- Scale up and transfer targets for every project
- Involvement of manufacturing early in the project to participate in design for manufacture (DFM) reviews
- Regular project communication with manufacturing
- Senior management approval of the process for scale up and transfer.
