The Unattainable Triangle? Cost, Quality, And Speed In Aseptic Manufacturing

By Ryan Hawkins, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Cook Pharmica

Cost, quality and speed – pick two. The unattainable triangle has taunted many from, well…ever

since the concept was introduced! For those who are naïve, they learn about the triangle only after attempting numerous times to “get it all.” For the rest of us,we have long been conditioned to believe that something cannot be the fastest, cost the least, and be of the highest quality all at the same time. To the conditioned, the attainable triangle does not exist. Or, does it?!

Since biopharmaceutical companies, like other enterprises, are not immune to these ‘laws’ of products and services, let’s talk about the seemingly mystical possibility of an attainable triangle. Let’s talk about it in terms of one of the most significant advances in aseptic manufacturing in the last two decades and how the elusive triangle may be closer than we think.