Current Compiled List of 115 6-Sigma Companies

Geoff

I just started working in a Pharmaceutical company, where do they have Six Sigma?  You have several of them listed.  I don't think your list has been vetted.

The FDA just recognized (in 2001) that the Pharmaceutical companies are way behind other manufacturers in process improvements.  Reasons are many but the two big reasons are that the Pharmaceutical industry regard drug development and research as their core competence and not manufacturing and that the FDA regulates the hell out of their industry so if they change a process or optimize a process the FDA scrutinizes the heck out of them so why bother.

Well anyway, the FDA has come to understand this fact of life so they are pushing on the industry what they call " Process Analytical Technology" (PAT).  I've reviewed their language on this and it sounds to me like a Six Sigma tool kit.  But I didn't say those words.

So when I saw those Pharmaceutical companies on your list I know that this list is suspect.

Orlando