Philadelphia, PA – Quality by Design

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Philadelphia, PA Quality by Design

Agenda

NOTE: One-day course participants will obtain a conceptual understanding, while five-day course participants will obtain more detailed and advanced understanding through a combination of hands-on exercises and analysis of various case studies.

One-Day “QbD Overview” Course: Five-Day Course: One-Day “QbD Overview” PLUS:
  • Background and drivers for Pharma QbD
  • Focused hands-on DoE training and practice
    • Full vs fractional factorials
    • Optimization and response surfaces
    • Transfer functions
  • QbD guidance review (ICH Q8/Q9/Q10/Q11)
  • Detailed training on QbD concepts & tools, e.g.
    • QTPP and CQAs/CMAs/CPPs
    • Risk management tools and practices
    • Design space: development, verification and scale-up
    • Control strategies, process robustness and proactive management of process variation
  • QbD development process and flow/logic
  • Round-table exercises for problem-solving your QbD implementation challenges
  • Introduction and overview of QbD tools
    • Risk management
    • Design of Experiments
    • Design Space
    • Control Strategies
  • Current industry and regulatory landscape, and application challenges for QbD

Objectives/Learning Outcomes

  • Understanding the origins and need for QbD for pharmaceutical products, and the objectives for current QbD practices
  • Understanding the overall logic and flow of the QbD development process, including the use and application of the various tools applied:
  • Risk-based quality management
  • Development and use of Quality Target Product Profiles (QTPPs), and definition and verification of Critical Quality Attributes (CQAs), Critical Material Attributes (CMAs) and Critical Process Parameters (CPPs)
  • Facets of statistical design of experiments (DOEs), e.g., screening designs, response surfaces and optimization, transfer functions
  • Design Space and its application: process control, lifecycle management, understanding design space limits/“edges”
  • Development and optimization of process control strategies, including real-time release testing.
  • The ability for attendees to apply these QbD tools and principles to their own problems, facilitated through round-table discussion of challenges faced by attendees