
Understand what process validation is, explain why we need it and understand verification.
We will discuss 3 main elements of how to validate a manufacturing process.
We will explain how process validation can be broken down into 5 main steps.
We will understand do we validate a process or not?
What will we learn?
Understand the U.S medical device regulation which is contained in the code of federal regulation abbreviated as CFR
Understand the quality management system of the U.S. Which is the quality system regulation QSR.
Understand the international standard that governs the manufacturing and market authorisation of medical devices ISO 13485. This standard covers the European union medical device regulation
What will we lean?
We will understand that there is different types of validation.
We will understand what is meant by prospective validation.
We will understand what is meant by concurrent validation.
We will understand what is mean by retrospective validation.
What will we learn?
We will understand what is meant by user requirement specification.
We will understand what is meant by functional specification.
How do these two terms lead to process validation.
What will we learn?
We will understand what a design qualification means in the over all validation process.
What elements are contained within a design qualification.
We will show a simple example of a design qualification.
We show a summary of what a design qualification will entail.
What will we learn?
We will understand the concept of what installation qualification is.
We will understand what a factory acceptance test is. Abbreviated to FAT.
We will understand what a Site acceptance test is. Abbreviated to SAT.
What will we learn?
We will understand what a factory acceptance test is.
What will we learn?
We will understand what is meant by a site acceptance test in the installation qualification step of process validation.
The learning objectives of this lecture is as follows:
I will explain what an operational qualification means.
I will explain the steps to be taken to develop an operational qualification.
I will explain how we develop an operational qualification protocol.
A protocol is a predetermined plan to explain the objective of the qualification and what requirements need to be met to pass the qualification.
We will learn what the objective of an operational qualification is.
The learning objectives for this lecture is as follows:
I will demonstrate an example of an operational qualification.
I will show how process parameters are established which will enable the output to meet the user requirement specification.
I will explain how input process parameters are developed.
I will explain how outputs of the machine are developed.
I will explain how to create an upper and a lower control limit for the process parameters
What are the learning objectives in this lecture?
We will understand what a performance qualification is.
We will understand that we are looking at the whole process combined. Can the user requirement specification be met by all the process consistently
What are the learning objectives in this lecture?
How does process capability relate to process validation. There is a very important connection between these concepts.
What is process capability. We will understand that the process will have variation but the goal is to control this variation.
We need to understand two main concepts.
Cp which is the process capability ratio.
Cpk which is the process capability index.
We need to understand what the numerical value of these process capability indices mean.
What will we learn in this lecture? We will understand the process model. We will understand the input process parameter further. We will understand control limits and action limits.
What are the learning objectives of this lecture? We will understand the concept of Design of experiments. We will understand two main components of the design of experiments. Screening designs and factorial designs.
What are the learning objectives?
We will point out where risk management is required within the medical device regulation.
We will explain how risk management fits into the validation process.
We will summarise how the ISO standard 14971 is utilised and therefore how risk management is applied.
What will we learn? We will examine the documentation that is required for the validation process and go into some detail of a qualification protocol.
What will we learn.
We will understand what is a validation master plan.
We will understand what details go into a validation master plan.
We will understand what it is used for.
What will we learn in this lecture?
Understand the concept of requesting a validation.
What does a validation plan consist of.
What will we learn?
We will understand what is meant by controlling a change in the validation process.
We will understand the concept why we have to control any changes in the validation process.
We will understand how the management of any changes are an important facet in validation.
What will we learn?
Understand the relationship between a calibration system and validation.
What is meant by calibration.
Who takes responsibility for doing calibration and creating a calibration system.
What are calibration records and why they are important.
Creating a calibration frequency.
What will we learn?
What preventive maintenance is.
Explain the relationship between preventive maintenance and validation.
What will we learn?
We will understand what a validation summary report is.
We will understand who will access and review the validation summary report.
We will understand what is contained in a validation summary report.
What will we learn?
In order to understand why we validate a process we need to learn why regulation was introduced to the life science industry.
We will examine the U.S. life science regulation history.
We will examine the chronological events in history which led to regulation and thus process validation.
What will we learn?
We continue to understand the chronological events in the U.S. which developed regulation and which subsequently led to process validation being part of that regulation.
•Measurement System Analysis.
•Accuracy & Precision.
•Gage Repeatability & Reproducibility
•Attribute Test Method Validation.
•Variable Test Method Validation.
What will we learn?
We will point out where process validation is called out in the ISO 9001 standard.
We will explain what is meant by the ISO 9001 standard.
This Course is broken into six sections. The objective of the course is to explain process validation in simple terms:
Section 1 will give an introduction to process validation and explain why we need it.
We will discuss the steps we take to decide if we need to validate.
The course focuses on medical device process validation. We will explain the regulation governing process validation within the medical device industry. This will explain how ISO 13485, the FDA Quality system regulation (QSR) and the FDA 21 CFR 820 fit into regulation that governs process validation.
Please remember the course explains process validation so it can benefit people interested in manufacturing in any industry.
This section will explain the 3 different types of validation.
In section 2 we will explain how process validation is performed.
We will explain what the user requirement specification is.
We will explain design qualification.
Install qualification will be explained which contains the factory acceptance test and the site acceptance test.
We will explain what an operational qualification is. We will demonstrate an operational qualification.
We will explain what a performance qualification is.
Section 3 will explain what is meant by process capability and how it relates to process validation.
We will understand the process capability ratio and the process capability index.
We will understand the process model, control limits and action limits.
We will understand the Design of experiments and how this is used in the operational qualification part of process validation.
Section 4 Risk Management
We will point out where risk management is required within the medical device regulation.
We will explain how risk management fits into the validation process.
We will summarise how the ISO standard 14971 is utilised and therefore how risk management is applied.
Section 5 Process Validation Documentation
In this section we will understand the documentation which needs to be created in order to complete process validation. We will explain terms as follows:
· Process Validation Documentation.
· Validation Master Plan.
· Validation Plan.
· Validation Change control.
· Calibration within Process Validation.
· Preventive Maintenance within the validation process.
· Validation Summary Report
Section 6 will explain in chronological steps how regulation developed for the life science industry in the U.S. We will study this and understand how the regulation developed to include process validation.
The course will be of great benefit to anybody that really wants to understand process validation in simple terms. It can be a very useful training package for the following disciplines:
· Operations.
· People managers.
· Manufacturing Engineers.
· Process Engineers.
· Quality Engineers.
· Regulatory Affairs.
· Research and development Engineers.
· Process and development Engineers.
· Students who need to really understand process validation in simple terms.
· Entrepreneurs or small medium start-up companies that need to develop and understand the manufacturing process.