At CPhI WW 2019, SGD Pharma is presenting the first app to support the pharmaceutical industry in detecting non-conformities in bottles made of moulded glass. The new digital tool is the result of joint development work by SGD Pharma's quality and marketing departments.
SGD Pharma is the world's leading supplier of pharmaceutical packaging made of moulded glass in the healthcare sector, with the quality of its products at the centre of every investment activity at SGD Pharma.
„We launched this app project because our customers were asking us more and more frequently for Training courses on the subject of glass defects have asked.“
Quentin Ritter, Project Manager Quality Management at SGD Pharma
In line with this corporate policy principle, the app is designed to support companies in optimising and harmonising their customer-supplier relationships. It achieves this by helping quality controllers, sales representatives, technical staff and purchasers to optimise and harmonise existing customer-supplier relationships. Non-conformities on pharmaceutical metallurgical glass bottles quickly and easily.
Free of charge and easy to use
The app is available both in the Apple Store and on Google Play free of charge available. After just a few clicks to create an account, the user has unlimited access to a visual 2D summary of the most frequently occurring non-conformities.
Navigation through the app is initially via the Route of administration (parenteral, oral and nasal); the user can then refine the search, either on the basis of the localisation criterion or by non-conformity class. The latter can be done depending on the different consequences for the end customer or for the filling systems (critical, main or optical).
Once a non-conformity has been identified, the user is redirected to a special page. Here he will find an illustration, a definition, its class and the associated acceptable quality limit (AQL value), which corresponds to the provisions of the international standard ISO 2859-1.
Another convincing bonus of the app: SGD Pharma's standards are then synchronised with the Technical Report 43 of the Parenteral Drug Association (PDA) and the defect evaluation list for containers made of metallurgical glass of the Editio Cantor Publishers (ECV), the two quality standards recognised and accepted in the industry.
„With this app, which is open to all professionals in the industry, but which was primarily developed with the customer in mind, SGD Pharma wants to reach all company departments - the purchaser as well as the inspector at the production plant.“
Emmanuel Lepitre, Head of Development and Quality Management at SGD Pharma
Source: SGD S.A.
