| CODE | PHR2605 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Production and Operations Management | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Pharmacy | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | - Process Design - Manufacturability - Critical control strategy - Monitoring strategy - Productivity improvement methodologies and evaluation - Documentation - Batch recording technologies - Pharmaceuticals and Pricing Visits to a pharmaceutical plant. Study-unit Aims: - To obtain an overview on the design of pharmaceutical processes; - To describe management aspects within the pharmaceutical industry as related to pharmaceutical manufacturing; - To present information related to pharmaceutical processes in a scientific manner, with the appropriate referencing system. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - describe activities in the production department; - draw up documentation related to activities in a production department. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - identify strategies for the control of operations; - identify documentation used within the pharmaceutical industry; - identify process requirements for the production of pharmaceutical products. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Mohan P, Glassey J, Montague G. Pharmaceutical Operations Management: Manufacturing for Competitive Advantage. USA: McGraw-Hill; 2006. - Futschik M. Electronic batch recording solutions: Introduction of an evaluation model for the pharmaceutical industry. Wiesbaden (Grmany): Springer Vieweg; 2018. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Nicolette Sammut Bartolo Stephen Emanuel Falzon Brockdorff Bettina Von Mark Sean Zammit |
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