OPERATIONAL QUALIFICATION (OQ)
Operational Qualification Rationale.This Operational Qualification (OQ) protocol comes with an interactive SOP as a prefixed document. As you complete the SOP you are auto populating the OQ. A really easy and straight forward document to use. In the preparation of the Operational Qualification validation protocols, it is important to allow a degree of flexibility. This must and should be specified in the Validation Plan (VP). Should the OQ remain untouchable until the Installation-Qualification (IQ) is completed and signed off? There are many instances where this is not just undesirable but senseless and deleterious to project progress and costs. Should every function in a system or piece of equipment be qualified? It makes little sense to fail something for not reaching a parameter that you are not going to use. The Operational Qualification includes a review of the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP's) for start-up, operation, maintenance, safety, and cleaning / sanitization as applicable, must they be in fully approved format? These flexibilities must be built into the qualification process. However there is an abundance of rules and guidelines that are not flexible, and must be rigorously adhered to. The modular process has been followed in constructing this Operational Qualification, in as much that where tests / inspections are standard for systems and or equipment, they are built into the basic protocol. Where they are not they are available as test protocols. Functional and software tests are authored in this stand alone test scrip protocol format. When the OQ is being raised they are pasted in. The document format will paginate them, and automatically add them to the ‘Table of Contents’. They are then part of the OQ. These Test Scripts can be held as Method Statements or SOP's. This allows the generation of a standard OQ that covers all the many items the regulators are looking for, with the facility to have integrated into it, the equipment specific testing tasks. It also means that these stand alone test scripts are available for tasks other than validation, i.e. when system re-testing is required. One of the advertisers on this site has a completely free credit on offer, it really is to good to miss out on. It also saves unnecessary testing and re-testing. For example, when a room pressure regime has been commissioned by another party and the completed report is in date and available, is it practical and legal to use it? There is no reason why not, providing it has been authored, and executed using the same documentation practices and procedures as are used in the routine production and execution of validation protocols. The OQ test scrip will be of standard format, the contractors tests (containing the raw data) will be reviewed and data extracted from it. This data will be used to verify that the Operational Qualification test script acceptance criteria has or has not Operational Qualification Rationale.been satisfied. The raw data from the contactor now forms part of the OQ, and must be appended to it permanently, along with copy calibration certificates for all the test equipment used in obtaining the raw data.
OQ Scope.The scope of the OQ testing/inspections must include but is not limited to:
Full Life Cycle Documentation.
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Validation Master Plan (Issue 7) -- $115.00
This document follows our proven practice of supplying a interactive generic document with an automatic method of populating it. Once populated, all you need to do is follow the prompts in the attached SOP. They will take you through the completion process section, by section. At the end of this process your generic document has progressed into a detailed, referenced, bespoke company document. The document follows our three level URS system that ensures functionality traceability from the URS to the various testing protocols. This document interfaces with our Validation Risk Assessment (VRA), Validation Project Plan (VP), User Requirements Specification (URS), giving a seamless flow from your VMP through the VP - IQ - OQ - PQ, while integrating flawlessly with the URS - DQ - VRA.
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Validation Documentation Matrix (Issue 6.) -- $29.00
This Matrix must sit along-side your VMP or PVP and together with these documents give a very concise overall picture of your validation program. This four part matrix allows you to list all the equipment and systems that must be qualified. Each entry is allocated a row in the matrix. The row consists of eleven separate headings, these may be edited as required (but come with all the standard documentation titles inserted). In this matrix there is room to enter the document number, prefixed by, A to D. The document number gives you an instant cross reference to the current documents. The A to D prefix shows the progress stage.
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Combined IQ/OQ/PQ Protocol (Issue-2) -- $159.00
This combination protocol has been produced in response to several hundred reader suggestions we received in our ‘Suggestions Section’. It has been carefully designed to make it the preferred choice for Process and Laboratory stand-alone equipment. It is interactive, easy to use and suitable for all mixes of equipment with and without software.
The IQ section establishes documented verification that key aspects of the equipment adhere to approved design intentions and that the recommendations of the manufacturer have been suitably considered. The OQ section establishes that there is documented verification that the installed system functions as specified and that there is sufficient documentary evidence to demonstrate this. The PQ section gives documented verification that the equipment performance in its normal operating environment is consistently exactly as specified in the URS.
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Vendor Audit Document (Issue 4) -- $89.00
This document should be customised using the find and replace word feature. The document can then be re-focussed to reflect your project priorities. The fifteen chapters all contain 10 questions, the total scored is then weighted to reflect your priorities. By assessing the importance of each of the chapter subjects in your project, the weighting is altered taking points from one and adding to others. For example in a recent audit, after weighting, order of priorities became; delivery number one, validation number two, and price trailing at number nine. The document has been used to audit major and minor manufacturing and support companies. It is a very searching audit tool, and completely removes the possibility of suggestions that personal biases and opinions influenced the final audit decision. When you audit with this document; they know they have been audited.
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Validation Plan (Issue 8) -- $89.00
This document follows our well-developed method of using a generic document and allowing the customer to apply an attached detailed SOP to it, turning the generic document quickly into a first class company bespoke document. This VP details and integrates all validation activities and procedures required for a small to medium sized project, involving production/facility/utility equipment using electronic controls or monitoring.
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User Requirements Specification (Issue 7.) -- $115.00
The document that sets the standard, and specifies your requirements in a manner that ensures when a system or piece of equipment is selected, it will deliver the functions you want, it will have maintenance standards, it will have calibration records, it will have all the documents and records to enable successful validation to be completed. This document was designed to be used as a live document up until the DQ is completed and approved. It uses three levels of URS, URS Level 1, 2 and 3, and is the only URS to guarantee traceability from the URS through to the final PQ and OQ functionality testing. This is a mandatory requirement for Full Life Cycle Validation (FLCV) of computer systems that are the subject of predicate rules. It can be used on mechanical, electrical and software controlled, monitored or managed systems.
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Design Qualification (Issue 4.) -- $115.00
The Standard Operating Procedure attached to this generic design qualification protocol, will chapter by chapter, take you through the task of raising a fully detailed document. The main body is split into fourteen tables, each one probing the design requirements and standards for the individual requirement. Safety and security along with user operability are very detailed. The document will lead you through all these design aspects allowing you to delete some you feel are not important to your equipment. It is an easy document to use and will ensure that you’re DQ’s are relevant, up to date and easy to execute. Practically all the requirements are in table form. Allowing fast and clearly presented results to be obtained.
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Validation Risk Assessment (Issue11.) -- $125.00
The Risk and Part 11 Validation Risk Assessment (VRA) protocol is becoming the most important document in the validation train. The VRA reassures the regulators that you have looked at specific equipment functionality and considered the appropriate level of validation that is required. You have also considered various aspects of its use and the implications of any malfunctions. From the results of this exercise the scope of all validation activity can and must be justified. This is a robust and simple to execute document, one that will lead you through the process and deliver a result that can be used as the foundation for your validation activities.
This VRA now includes the assessment table for categorising and documenting the new 21 CFR Part 11 guidance ruling on what predicate data must be stored in a Part compliant system, along with the new broadsheet to establish your new database of part 11 records. (now mandatory).
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Installation Qualification. SOP & Protocol (Issue 9.) -- $115.00
The SOP used to generate this IQ, takes you through the process line by line, chapter by chapter. It really is unique to find a SOP document so easy to use, all the work is done for you. All the documents are detailed, all the drawings listed and all the checks and tests detailed. The final product is a professional and comprehensive Installation Qualification Protocol: One that you can produce in less than 60 minutes. Yes, think about it, we all know how long producing IQ documents has taken in the past. There is now no reason for not being able to produce 4 to 8, IQ protocols per 8 hour day.
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Combined IQ-OQ (Issue-2) -- $125.00
This protocol is targeted at equipment and is suitable for all equipment from the laboratory to the process line. All standard verifications are already included in the protocol format with many more test-scripts that can be edited in or out to tailor your IQ/OQ protocol exactly to your regulatory requirements. Validation Online’s format of fully referenced, highly detailed interactive regulatory compliant documents has been extensively used by our customers in meeting their regulatory compliance needs throughout the world for ten years now. Now this new combined IQ – OQ protocol brings a refreshingly simple and attractive approach for the industry professional to raise professional quality validation protocols in a most cost effective way.
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Operational Qualification, SOP & Protocol (Issue 10.) --$115.00
You will find the step by step attached SOP delightfully simple and straightforward to use, as it takes you through the process of customization of your Operational Qualification Protocol template. Following the attached SOP will quickly and smoothly convert your template into an equipment specific Operational Qualification Protocol. The OQ template comes complete with all the standard test scripts, more specialist test scripts can be found listed below. These can easily be pasted into the standard OQ, allowing you to quickly build your own fully detailed and referenced company bespoke Operational Qualification Protocol.
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Performance Qualification (P1Q) (Issue 5.) -- $89.00
The Performance Qualification is the last of the qualifying tests that equipment and processes are subjected to, prior to the actual first product run. It maybe that there are some steps in the process that can only be verified by actually running them (quick freezing and sublimation, to mention only two) or it sometimes is the fact that the product is a very expensive product, and cannot be wasted. So no one wants to run the process with product, until they are completely certain there will be minimal waste.
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Process Qualification (P2Q) (Issue 3.) -- $85.00
The Process Qualification is the culmination of the validation process. The protocol is used in conjunction with the SOP for the process, to run three batches through the process being qualified and verify that the process consistently produces product to within the process specified tolerances. The results of the process must be recorder and reviewed with a view to ensuring that the deviancies (within permitted tolerances) that exist are random and not a trend that will lead to out of specification produce being produced.
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