How Geolab Reduced Validation Documentation Work from Weeks to Days
About Geolab:
Geolab Indústria Farmacêutica is a 100% Brazilian pharmaceutical company located in Anápolis, Goiás, one of the main pharmaceutical hubs in Latin America. With approximately 2,300 employees, the company has a portfolio that includes generic, branded generic, herbal, and hospital medicines, and is recognized for its continuous investment in innovation, quality, and operational excellence.
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- Diversified portfolio: generic, branded generic, herbal, and hospital medicines
The Challenge:
The preparation of validation documentation required a significant amount of time from the technical team. Process Validation, Computerized System Validation (CSV), and Qualification documents often took weeks to complete, affecting project timelines, limiting productivity, and creating the need for a more standardized and efficient way to manage validation projects.
The Solution:
Geolab adopted GO!FIVE®, FIVE Validation’s Digital Validation platform, to structure and standardize the preparation of validation documentation.
With reusable libraries, integrated traceability, and an item-based methodology, the team was able to produce documents much more efficiently while maintaining technical quality and regulatory compliance.
Results Achieved:
- Validation documentation preparation was reduced from weeks to days;
- Productivity gains were achieved across Process Validation, Computerized System Validation (CSV), and Qualification;
- Greater standardization across validation documents;
- Reduced rework through the reuse of knowledge;
- Increased productivity for the validation team;
- Support for leaner validation timelines, accelerating the release of products, equipment, and systems for operational use.
Geolab Testimonial:
“The preparation of validation documents, which used to take weeks, now takes days. These gains are already being observed in Process Validation, Computerized System Validation, and Qualification. As we further consolidate process standardization and continue advancing in our use of the platform, we expect to expand these productivity gains even further, including reducing the effort required to review test execution and enabling increasingly agile validation timelines.”
Conclusion:
Geolab’s experience demonstrates that digital validation can deliver tangible productivity gains from the very first projects. By combining technology, methodology, and standardization, the company made its validation processes more efficient, reduced operational effort, and supported shorter project timelines, enabling products, equipment, and systems to be made available to the business more quickly without compromising quality or regulatory compliance.
