Articles by Paul Bubny
Making Efficiency Automatic
Taking a closer look at a company’s processes—manufacturing and otherwise—can pay dividends across the spectrum.It’s understood that automating as many processes as possible in manufacturing is a means to an end, which may be reducing costs or increasing capacity. However, simply installing a conveyor belt and the associated machinery is not the be-all and end-all; ...
The Whole Package
Since packaging serves marketing and strictly utilitarian purposes, manufacturers need to keep both in mind when making selections.Product packaging serves a number of purposes for supplement manufacturers and their products. The most basic is to contain the products and convey information about them. Perhaps more elusively, though, packaging can also communicate, relaying messages and helping ...
Taking a Spotless Approach to Sanitation
From eliminating pathogens to keeping dust out of the manufacturing process, ingredient suppliers make a clean sweep.The good manufacturing practices (GMPs) for dietary supplements now in effect for all manufacturers don’t just state that clean living is a must. The GMPs make the point again and again. In a fact sheet summarizing the requirements, the ...
A Stabilizing Force
Posting expiration dates on product labels is voluntary, but manufacturers that do so need to ensure that the product behind the label remains stable.Among the many requirements of the dietary supplement good manufacturing practices (GMPs) in place for all manufacturers since 2010, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) mandates testing data to support expiration or ...
Not Letting It Go To Waste
Proper maintenance, retrofits and high-efficiency equipment all go a long way toward maximizing the amount of product. Even assuming that all else remains status quo—prices on raw materials hold the line, overhead holds steady, labor expenses remain constant—waste can eat into margins. That applies to both wasted time and wasted product.“Finding ways to maximize yield during ...
Preventing an Identity Crisis
Analytical methods are spotlighted when a botanical’s new popularity raises the specter of adulteration, but more generally help assure that that the ingredient is the genuine article.The months-long controversy over DMAA (1,3-dimethylamylamine) can be seen as a poster child for the importance of validated analytical methods. This past April, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...
The Holistic Approach To Sustainability
Pursuing eco-friendliness across the supply and manufacturing chain can pay dividends in everything from cost savings to brand differentiation.According to California-based Autodesk, a design and engineering software maker, “Manufacturers worldwide see increasing sustainable design and improving production processes as an effective response to global competition and regulations and a source of business value.” The company ...
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