At FarmaForum Telstar addresses operational excellence in equipment manufacturing and project management within the pharmaceutical industry

Telstar will be taking part at FarmaForum 2018 (Madrid, 7-8 March 2018), the congress for the pharmaceutical, biotechnological, cosmetic and laboratory technology industries. Within the framework of this event, German Ormaechea, Corporate Quality & Deputy Operations Director at Telstar, will be chairing a workshop titled “Lean / Kaizen / Operational Excellence in equipment manufacturing and projects management”, where he will address the main challenges that this system presents for the pharmaceutical industry. He will also introduce the Telstar Operating System (TOS), an own quality management system of lean manufacturing process based on Kaizen methodology implemented by the company for equipment and projects intended for life sciences and health sectors.

In addition, Yvonne Ayasse, Qualification and Validation Team Leader of the Consultancy Department at Telstar, will be unveiling Continued Process Verification as the main strategy for maintaining the state of control, for change management and for continuous improvement over the product lifecycle. In addition the speaker will explain the meanings of similar terms -Continuous Process Verification, Ongoing Process Verification and Continued Process Verification-, regulatory requirements addressed at a workshop entitled “Continued Process Verification: a key factor of the product lifeclycle”. Both sessions will take place on Thursday 8th March at 15,30h.

Speakers

German Ormaechea is an industrial engineer with more than 20 years professional experience working in multinational environments for the automotive and pharmaceutical industries. Certified Six Sigma Black Belt and with substantial experience in application of Lean tools, Ormaechea is specialist in continuous improvement/lean manufacturing and has many years’ experience in the implementation of management systems changes. He has held management positions in the field of Quality Management and Operations Management for several multinational companies over the last 16 years. Since 2014, he has been working as Corporate Quality Director and Deputy Director of Operations at Telstar. From this position, he has led the implementation of the Telstar Operating System introducing a complete set of tools and operational changes moving the organization towards operational excellence.

Yvonne Ayasse has a Degree in Pharmacy, specializing in industrial processes. She has a Master in Business Administration for the Pharmaceutical Industry from the University of Barcelona (Spain). A Professional with over 18 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry, she has worked for companies related to the field of solid oral drugs manufacturing, parenteral drugs production, BFS (Blow-Fill-Seal) process and sterile medical devices. During the years she has fulfilled various functions in Production, Quality Assurance, Qualification, Validation and Quality Audits.Since 2017 she has been working as Team Leader, responsible for the Qualification and Validation Department at the Consultancy Division of Telstar.

Telstar: stand 81

Telstar will also be present at FarmaForum 2018 as an exhibitor (Stand 81). Telstar, part of the azbil Group, is an international company that develops global and complete solutions in engineering, construction, process equipment design and manufacturing and consultancy services. Telstar is also an expert in validations, qualifications, calibrations and provides after-sales services for the pharmaceutical, biotechnological, cosmetics, medical products, hospital, laboratory and research centre sectors.