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There are arguments raging over efficacy of Six Sigma in all aspects of business processes. Take, for example, the case of billing your customers. If the p

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

rocess is fundamentally defective, where Six Sigma fails to take a strategic and holistic approach without focusing on the flaws inherent in the system its

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

elf, Six Sigma’s outstanding abilities to unearth root causes of inefficiency can’t be questioned. It deploys analytical and statistical tools to expose fl

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

ws in the execution, albeit without questioning whether the process itself is riddled with defects.

Kenneth S. Stephens, a retired professor of quality ma

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

nagement, in the Southern College of Technology, has a different viewpoint. Different quality management tools such as TQM and Six Sigma are not very diffe

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

rent conceptually except for their labels. Managers and corporations tend use the same statistical confounded philosophy, albeit with different labels. Wha

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

described the whole sphere of statistical phenomenon coupled with some of the brilliant managerial, engineering and other procedures put together has late

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

r emerged as Six Sigma.

The Limited Success Of Six Sigma

Since its famous emergence after the Motorola implementation, Six Sigma has been more or less po

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

pular with large companies where conflicting situations exist on the processing front with big ROI potential as opposed to that of small and medium busines

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

es. The potential ROI in small and medium companies will be invariably smaller relative to the cost of Six Sigma implementation. The processes are also sim

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

pler which makes sense.

Looking at these factors, it becomes very difficult to differentiate between various quality management tools like TQM, Six Sigma

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

and Kaizen Events where all of them share most of the basic principles, whereas as the scope, time frame and talent base remain same as mandated across the

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

disciplines.

Furthermore, there are other supporting arguments to the theory that the training that the Black Belts receive is not quite up to the mark.

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

After the training, the Black Belt needs to be able to successfully meet the management needs of the Six Sigma team. Unless candidates have a lot of experi

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

ence with creditable accomplishments and leadership, the cost justification of the implementation suffers.

Future of Six Sigma

As is common knowledge, Si

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As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

Sigma shares many fundamental principles and tools with other quality techniques, which leads us back to the thought that the emergence of Six Sigma was o

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

nly psychologically satisfying to upper management. All programs with different labels have met similar successes or failures as had Six Sigma. What is mor

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

e, there is no denying the argument that even Six Sigma would have possibly met the same fate as other techniques, all conditions being equal.

Alternately

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As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

Kaizen may be thought of for smaller implementations and especially in situations where the problem sources are not very complicated. And Six Sigma can en

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

joy its place under the sun, for larger projects where the problems are far more complex and the root causes are not clearly understood prior to deployment

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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