Automation, Automation and Information Technologies, Data Integrity, Computer Systems

LESSONS LEARNED FROM IMPLEMENTING THE FDA’s CSA GUIDANCE: PART 2– EXECUTING

March 18, 2024 || Brian Stephens
 
This is the second in a series of three articles that present lessons that our validation team learned while completing a pair of validation projects that used the FDA’s draft of the Computer Software Assurance for Production and Quality System Software Guidance (CSA). The number of resources, the amount of…

LESSONS LEARNED FROM IMPLEMENTING THE FDA’s CSA GUIDANCE: PART 1 – PLANNING

February 12, 2024 || Brian Stephens
 
After several years of conversation with drug manufacturers and consultants about the state of computer system validation, the FDA issued a draft of the Computer Software Assurance guidance in September 2022. Since that time, I have used this guidance to reduce the effort and cost required to complete two large…

Is CSA Really a Game Changer for the Life Science Industry?

June 11, 2020 ||
 
Computer Software Assurance (CSA) for Manufacturing, Operations, and Quality System Software Guidance – Is it the solution to arduous validations that the life science industry has been waiting for from the FDA? Least Burdensome Approach to Validation – the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been pushing this concept onto…