Engineering services firm Crest Solutions announces 80 new jobs in 2019 by securing contracts with global Life Sciences manufacturers.

Having successfully competed in the UK regional and national rounds in a series of robotic challenges the school scooped the Teamwork Champion and Design Award, which means Technogear have automatically qualified for the World Championships in Louisville, Kentucky later this month.

For over 20 years, Crest Solutions has helped our customers deliver regulatory compliance and guarantee quality, by providing them bespoke machine vision and serialisation solutions.

Effective in Europe from February 2019, EU directive 2011/62/EU, also referred to as EU FMD, aims to reduce counterfeiting of prescription drugs by tracking and tracing the passage of drugs through the entire supply chain.

Under the Directive, all new packs of prescription medicines placed on the market in Europe from February 2019 onwards will have to bear two safety features: a verifiable unique identifier (serialised code) and an anti-tamper device.

However, Serialisation and the systems required to carry it out present significant business benefits, past achieving compliance.

What is involved in Serialisation and the EU-FMD?

To recap, EU directive 2011/62/EU or EU FMD aims to reduce counterfeiting of prescription drugs by tracking and tracing the passage of drugs through the entire supply chain. 

Here's a month-by-month break down on how to comply and optimise your pharmaceutical packaging lines before 09 February 2019.

One Year for EU FMD Implementation: A month-by-month guide to compliance

With one year to go for pharmaceutical manufacturers, packaging sites and Marketing Authorisation Holders (MAHs) to achieve compliance with the Falsified Medicines Directive, the team in Crest Solutions have put together this guide to help you meet the deadline. 

As a Serialisation Project Manager on a packaging site in one of the world's largest Pharmaceutical companies, he is tasked with implementing solutions to achieve compliance with global regulations, including the European Falsified Medicines Directive.

What is the European Falsified Medicines Directive?

Dan shared with his audience insights from companies who have already implemented serialisation projects in the hope that those who still need to begin such a journey can avoid common pitfalls and benefit from the identified areas of good practice.  

Company culture is central to the success of an organisation. A good culture leads to happy people and well-functioning teams. Culture cannot be manipulated or controlled, rather it is a direct result of values that teams within the company share and work by. When there is a set of core values by which everyone works - the results are revolutionary. 

At Crest Solutions, we are big on people. 

We recognise that our success as a leading partner to our customers begins with the success and happiness of our team members.