Title: Global Summary of Active SIGs
1- Global Summary of Active SIGs
2GAMP Americas
3Manufacturing Execution Systems
- Principal Region(s) USA
- Chair Ed Kanczewski ed_kanczewski_at_hotmail.com,
Karen Donaldson karen.donaldson_at_pfizer.com - Focus
- Achieving Compliant MES, via Validation, GAMP
Life Cycle, etc - Project Management of Defined Scope MES
Implementation - Program Management of MES (Global) Initiative
- Goal Good Practice Guide
- Target for completion 2006
- Status Editing following public comments
- Recruiting new members No
4IT Quality
- Principal Region(s) USA
- Chair Bob Herr robert.r.herr_at_pfizer.com
- Focus Organizational aspects of managing quality
and compliance in IT - Goal Discussion group maybe a paper
- Target for completion N/A
- Status Discussion group ongoing
- Recruiting new members Yes
5Data Migration
- Principal Region USA
- Chair Jerry Anderson, janderson_at_watson.com
- Focus Quality assurance and compliance issues
during data migration efforts - Goal 1. Pharmaceutical Engineering article,
pointing to... - Good practice guide white paper on Web
- Possible GAMP5 appendix
- Target for completion November 2006
- Status Writing white paper
- Recruiting new members No
6JETTJoint Equipment Transition Team
- Principal Region(s) USA
- Chair Jim John jettchair_at_kc.rr.com
- Focus 1. Unit Operations Equipment
- Equipment/Control URSs
- Risk Assessment for Packaged Equipment
- Test Planning for Packaged Equipment
- Goal Develop Additional Example Documents
- Target for completion Continuing Group
- Status See website www.jettconsortium.com
- Recruiting new members Yes
7Risk Management
- Principle Regions Global
- Chair Steve Coates coatess_at_wyeth.com Chris
Clark Chris.Clark_at_napp.co.uk - Focus To assist the healthcare industries,
(including Ethical and OTC Pharmaceuticals,
Medical Devices, and Biotechnology), and the
international regulatory authorities in promoting
public safety by the application of appropriate
Risk Management methodologies to implementation
and operation of automated systems, while
ensuring the realization of business
efficiencies, robust processes, and quality
products. - GoalTraining Materials Tool Box
- Target Completion 4Q, 2007(est.)
- Status Authoring
- Recruiting new members? No
8RD Systems
- Principal Region(s) USA
- Chair Barbara Mullendore bmullendore_at_watsonpharm.
com Ken Gray ken.k.gray_at_gsk.com - Focus
- Application of GAMP principles in the RD
environment - IT quality and compliance accountability across
the entities involved in pre-commercial drug life
cycle phases - Goal Article, series of articles, or Good
Practice Guide - Target for completion TBD
- Status Re-populated SIG just now ramping up
after hiatus - Recruiting new members Not at this time
9Laboratory Systems
- Principal Region(s) USA
- Chair Lorrie Schuessler (Lorrie.Schuessler-1_at_gsk.
com) and Kathy Gniecko (kathleen_a.gniecko_at_roche.c
om) - Focus Application of GAMP principles in the
laboratory environment - Goal Discussion group, maybe brief articles
- Target for completion N/A
- Status Establishing discussion group
- Recruiting new members Yes
10Test Automation (proposed)
- Principal Region(s) USA
- Chair Radha Ramesh rramesh_at_celgene.com
- Focus
- Assessment of when and which test automation tool
will be applicable - What concomitant needs need to be addressed,
for test automation to work out - Describe some case studies of test automation and
cost benefit analysis - How and how not to use automation common
pitfalls to avoid - Goal White Paper
- Target for completion Q4, 2006
- Status Preliminary
- Recruiting new members Yes
11GAMP Americas
12Computer System Validation Strategic Planning
- Principal Region(s) Brazil
- Chair Marcelo Decanio de Oliveira
decanio_at_ita.boehringer-ingelheim.com - Focus Guideline for management audience covering
strategic planning focused on compliance and
business risks, process improvement, robustness
of systems and its associated financial aspects - Goal White Paper
- Target for completion TBD
- Status First meeting to occur during April06
- Recruiting new members Yes
13Portuguese Translation
- Principal Region(s) Brazil
- Chair Flavio Kawakami flavio.kawakami_at_doctorbit.c
om.br - Focus Translation of GAMP GPGs documentation
into Portuguese - Goal Translation of Infrastructure GPG and
Testing GPG - Target for completion Sep06
- Status Business Plan to be approved by Brazil
Affiliate Board of Directors and ISPE
International - Recruiting new members No
14GAMP Americas
- Puerto Rico SIG Summaries
15System Retirement
- Principal Region(s) Puerto Rico and USA
- Chair Eddie Cordoves, ecordoves_at_yahoo.com and
Carlos Bruzos, bruzosc_at_stis.net - Focus GxP System retirement process. Data
Migration and Archiving will be out of the
Scope. - Goal Define and establish a guideline to
retirement GxP systems. Final document targeted
as a GAMP5 appendix. - Target for completion 1Q-2Q07
- Status Planning
- Recruiting new members Yes
16Spanish Translation (placeholder this SIG is not
yet organized)
- Principal Region(s) Puerto Rico
- Chair
- Focus
- Goal Target for completion
- Status Planning
- Recruiting new members
17GAMP Japan
18 Translation and integration of term for Japanese
version of GAMP Good Practice Guide
- Principal Region(s) Japan
- Chair Hiroaki Aikawa aikawa_at_kajima.com
- Focus
- 1"Validation of Laboratory Computerized
System 2"IT Infrastructure Control and
Compliance - Goal Publication of the official Japanese
version of GPG - Target for completion Within 2006
- Status Early-stage
- Recruiting new members Yes
19Study of operation to apply GAMP4 for real site
- Principal Region(s) Japan
- Chair Noboru Wakiyama
- Noboru.Wakiyama_at_jp.yokogawa.com
- Focus
- Study of concrete operation to apply GAMP4 for
real site - taking factors that is specific to Japanese
market into - account
- Goal Maybe a paper
- Target for completion about the middle of 2007
- Status Early-stage
- Recruiting new members Yes
20Study of Change Control in case of System
Operation
- Principal Region(s) Japan
- Chair Rika Naito r-naito_at_nm.mbcl.co.jp
- Focus
- Study of Change Control in System Operation
- for the purpose of Maintaining the Validated
State - Goal Maybe a paper
- Target for completion about the middle of 2007
- Status Early-stage
- Recruiting new members Yes
21Retrospective CSV
- Principal Region(s) Japan
- Chair Yuichi Fujita r-yufujita_at_ga.toyo-eng.co.jp
- Focus
- Study of retrospective computerized system
validation - Goal Maybe a paper
- Target for completion about the second quarter
of 2007 - Status Early-stage
- Recruiting new members Yes
22GAMP Europe
23Electronic Data Archiving
- Principal Region(s) EU
- Chair Per Olsson per.olsson_at_gb.abb.com
- Focus Raise awareness of the issues surrounding
electronic data archiving and provide common
understanding - Goal Produce a template for a electronic data
archiving strategy - Target for completion Q4 2006
- Status GPG has completed external review and SIG
are reviewing/incorporating comments. To be sent
to ERB / Council for final review. - Recruiting new members No
24Maintaining The Validated State
- Principal Region(s) UK
- Chair Kate Samways kasassociates_at_btinternet.com
- Focus To define best practice and co-ordinate in
line with other GPGs e.g. Data Archiving,
Laboratory Systems, Infrastructure etc.. - Goal TBD
- Target for completion TBD
- Status Planning / Recruiting
- Recruiting new members Yes
25Process Control Systems
- Principal Region(s) UK
- Chair Mark Cherry mark.cherry_at_astrazeneca.com
- Focus
- Review / revise GAMP Good Practice Guide
Validation of Process Control Systems (VPCS) - Accommodate recent significant developments in
new technology (e.g. the use of PAT and RFID). - Align with recent related GAMP GPGs (e.g. Risk
Based Approach to Compliant ERES and Testing of
GxP Systems) - Enhance harmonisation with (next version of) the
CQ Baseline Guides in line with a science and
risk based approach - Goal Publish VPCS GPG Version 2
- Target for completion Q3, 2007 (provisionally)
- Status Core team in place establishing
document structure - Recruiting new members Yes
26Small Manufacturing Devices
- Principal Region(s) D-A-CH
- Chair Frank Benisch frank.behnisch_at_zlbbehring.com
- Focus Clarification of terminology (apparatus
vs. device) - Goal Possible Good Practice Guide
- Target for completion 2006
- Status
- Final draft completed Q3 2005
- Drafts directly written in English
- Document is effectively completed and is due to
be sent to the Editorial Review Board by March
2006 - Recruiting new members No
27Supplier Cooperation
- Principal Region(s) D-A-CH / UK
- Chair Heinrich Hambloch hhambloch_at_hhambloch.de
- Focus Clarify Supplier / User responsibilities
per GAMP life cycle software category via an
improved user/supplier cooperation model - Goal Possible article in PE or published via
website as supplement to existing GAMP 4
Appendices - Target for completion 12/06
- Status Seminar scheduled in Brussels ISPE
Conference, 12/06 - Recruiting new members No
28Open Source Software
- Principal Region(s) D-A-CH
- Chair Thomas Makaitthomas.makait_at_sanofi-aventis.
com - Focus Use of Open Source Software (OSS) in the
regulated health care industry - Goal Create a common, technically sound approach
for the use of OSS in the health care industries
that is understood by users, suppliers and
regulators. Clarify the division of
responsibilities between OSS community, suppliers
and users. - Target for completion To be confirmed
- Status SIG founded in 03/2006, work packages
have been distributed amongst the members - Recruiting new members No