How Temperature Monitoring Changes Overall Facility Behavior

Temperature monitoring may seem like a small factor in the overall operations of a production facility, but facility managers and company owners shouldn’t discount its effect on how a facility operates.

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1/2 Year Review: Summertime Temperature Mapping

For facility supervisors, managers, and employees, every day in the workplace brings up questions about the day-to-day efficiency, quality, and safety of one’s facility. Whether that workplace facility is a hospital, egg producer, or steel manufacturer, conscious and subconscious thoughts wiz...

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The Do's and Don'ts of Vaccine Storage

Vaccine storage and handling can be as confusing as all get-out. There are a lot of resources and materials to consume, and there are different regulations coming at you from different regulating bodies (i.e. the CDC, the VFC Program, County Health Departments, etc.).

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How To Avoid Expired Vaccines

Expired vaccines are a bummer. Wasted vaccines equal wasted dollars. And dollars that don't need to be wasted. Some fridges and freezers can store thousands of dollars worth of vaccines. When those vaccines go to waste, the hospital is left footing the bill. Even if your hospital or medical clinic...

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The 7 Best Twitter Accounts for Manufacturing News

Where should you get your manufacturing information? Breaking news? Opinions on manufacturing policy? In the past few years, one social media platform has outperformed the rest for quick, breaking, and (sometimes) insightful opinions: Twitter. With almost every general news outlet and journalist...

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Back To The Desert: Learning About The Cold Chain In Our Return To Dubai

A little less than a year ago, DicksonOne Product Manager, Matt McNamara, traveled to Dubai to meet with one of Dickson’s distributors, and a Cold Chain Expert, Mr. Brij M. Suri. Matt toured Dubai, learning the nuances of our customer’s applications, and even speaking at a Cold Chain Seminar about...

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How To Complete Method Validation Documentation

What Belongs On The First Page?

Whether you have brought on an organization to map your facility, or you are performing the mapping study yourself, you will need to know what the document containing mapping or validation results looks like. While it may seem cliché, the first page of your mapping...

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Resources for Hospital IT Supervisors

Healthcare IT is at the forefront of medical development these days. In previous editions of Dickson Insights and on our blog, we’ve outlined top twitter accounts, best websites and links, and other resources meant to help out those in the Healthcare IT landscape that is constantly changing around...

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Data Analysis and Validation in Temperature Mapping

What Do You Do With All That Data?

After the mapping study is complete, when you’ve collected all of your labeled EDLM’s from your temperature mapping locations, and have them in a container with pages of their associated data sheets at your desk, it’s time to start the next step of the temperature...

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FDA Temperature Mapping and Monitoring Explained: A Dickson Translation

When it comes to regulatory bodies and concrete descriptions of how exactly you should be monitoring your environment . . . well it never comes to that.

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