Fulcrym technical briefs

White papers

Six focused papers for QA, engineering, and operations teams running solid oral dose lines. Each is designed to be skimmable, defensible, and grounded in real inspection realities.

Recommended start

Sentinel secondary inspection

A pragmatic approach to adding secondary inspection oversight on legacy lines: surfacing ambiguous cases, supporting QA decision-making, and improving narrative defensibility.

Secondary inspection Legacy lines QA-first
Risk & cost

Reducing recall risk

How escapes translate into operational disruption: remediation, investigations, downstream customer impact, and why legacy inspection gaps remain hard to close without added oversight.

Recalls Escapes Cost of quality
Validation-safe

No revalidation approach

A framing for adding oversight alongside validated processes: how to evaluate secondary inspection without triggering disruptive revalidation, downtime, or line redesign.

Validation OPEX Deployment
Cost of quality

CoPQ for solid dosage manufacturing

A practical breakdown of the cost of poor quality in US solid oral dose: scrap, rework, deviations, complaints, and recall-driven disruption.

CoPQScrap & reworkRecalls
Regulatory shifts

FDA harmonization for domestic CDMOs

What FDA harmonization means for domestic solid dosage manufacturers: inspection volatility, expectations alignment, and how secondary inspection can de-risk compliance cycles.

InspectionsComplianceCDMOs
Deviation trends

Trends in GMP deviations (2004–2024)

A 20-year analysis of domestic U.S. solid oral dose deviations, with a focused look at recent performance, regulatory signal, and operational impact for modern CDMOs.

Deviations Solid oral dose FDA data