Reactive-to-Proactive Process Monitoring in Pharmaceutical Waters

Better process control and transparency in pharma water process monitoring is necessary to provide quick risk assessment that can prevent undetected issues and production shutdowns. The ability to use continuous trending of water system data for measurements like TOC, conductivity and bioburden allows for focus on bioburden growth and biofilm formation prevention, which reduces cost and effort and ensures control of the water system for higher quality output.

In pharmaceutical water process monitoring, there is a need to change operating philosophy from reactive to proactive. This provides better transparency and increases the ability to better control water quality. Real time, continuous feedback on TOC ensures that TOC content of water remains low and can eliminate the struggle with biofilm formation and the risks it presents in pharma water quality.

The importance of true real time methods for not only TOC, but also conductivity and bioburden vs a "trap and read" method, eliminates delayed results and water waste. It can also reduce overall cost and effort but ensures control of the water system and higher quality output.