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Pre-Filled Syringes: End-to-End Processing Training Course (ONLINE EVENT: July 21-22, 2025)

  • Training

  • 2 Days
  • July 21st 09:30 - July 22nd 17:00 GMT
  • IPI Academy
  • ID: 6012841
OFF until Jun 16th 2025

This intensive two-day course has been designed to offer a comprehensive, practical, and usable review of the production of PFS and will provide the latest information on all aspects of the process from manufacture and packaging for fill/finish through to final (post-fill) inspection. Quality will be a key focus of the programme and there will be extensive coverage of improvements in the manufacturing process, including advances in cleanroom technology and sterilisation. Other sessions will address visual inspection and the latest regulatory requirements to ensure that you are fully up to date. The faculty of speakers will provide key guidance and advice from their practical experience in this field and there will be ample opportunity for discussion.

Benefits of attending

  • Explore recent improvements in the manufacturing process
  • Understand visual inspection
  • Know the latest regulatory requirements

Certifications:

  • CPD: 12 hours for your records
  • Certificate of completion

Course Content


Day 1
Syringe manufacture from components to the final product - an overview
  • The initial choice - bulk or pre-sterilised components?
  • Siliconisation - not beloved, but required
  • Handling and process overview
PFS over time
  • Evolution of systems
  • Evolution of components
  • Evolution of application and application systems
Summing-up: Trends in PFS: Drug Delivery
  • New PFS formats
  • Safety devices
  • Self-injection devices
Advances in cleanroom technology
  • History
  • RABS
  • Isolator
  • V-CRT® - Vetter Clean-Room Technology
Filling and closing: multi-format machine for nested syringes, vials and cartridges
  • Dosing and filling systems in comparison
  • Closing methods and their applications
  • Containment
Terminal sterilisation of pre-filled syringes - strange but feasible
  • Points to consider
  • Aseptic filling vs terminally sterilised
Summing-up: Trends in PFS: Machine Technology
  • Pumps ‘fit for purpose’
  • In Process Control (IPC), filling & stoppering
  • Robotics
Day 2
Visual inspection of pre-filled syringes
  • Why do we inspect? Regulatory requirements
  • Inspection basics
    • Defects - classification and defect evaluation lists
    • Pros and cons of different inspection methods
  • Automated visual inspection of syringes - scope and limitations
  • Current developments
Secondary packaging machines for PFS: hero or villain of the PFS world?
  • Walk through a typical facility
  • Trends in secondary packaging: labelling, safety devices
  • Single machines vs combined machines
Autoinjectors
  • Target Product Process
  • Impact Primary packaging material
  • Assembling steps
  • Inline Controls
  • Function / Release Tests
  • Final Packaging
Regulatory requirements for pre-filled syringes
  • ISO design compliance
  • New MDR - what about it?
  • US requirements for combination products
Case study/workshop
  • Based on the key user requirements provided, participants will come up with outputs for:
  • Design features of the PFS
  • Test methods
  • Manufacturing processes and manufacturing environment
Shipping PFSs all over the world
  • Points to consider
  • Shipping validation
  • GDP - Good Distribution Practices
PFS state-of-the-union address and event summary
  • Review of market drivers & drug development
  • Future trends in PFS