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Cover Story

Manufacturers
of such machines
need to take the
unique dynamics of a
pharma manufacturing
facility into consideration.
Programmable machines
are supposed to
simplify cleaning,
but in pharma, this
programme /
schedule changes
every
other hour.

Skilling challenges Costs
One of our respondents There are high costs
said: “Since even professional associated with procuring
FM providers hire locally, and maintaining cleaning
their performance is similar machines. Apart from this,
to that of a local agency. some FM heads believe that
Subcontracting is another
issue; with multiple levels of the 10-15% management fee
subcontracting, our ability to charged by professional FM
control quality spirals down.” vendors is not justified by the
Unskilled manpower in level of service delivered by
pharma FM is simply not unskilled/semi-skilled ground
an option. Without training, teams.
no worker can or should be
deployed to a pharma facility. Digitalisation
The same challenge Despite being a
exists in pest management. manufacturing industry that
While the vendor may have relies on heavy, sophisticated
invested in R&D to define and expensive machinery,
which chemical should be when it came to facility
used for what pest, their field
representatives may not be management, plant heads still
trained enough to transfer that had to negotiate old-school
domain knowledge to pest processes for documentation
management at the pharma and service requests. Not any
facility. more.

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