With experts from:
- IT,
- Quality Assurance,
- Production / Quality Control,
- Technology,
- System Suppliers and Service Providers,
who have to maintain legacy systems and operate them in accordance with regulatory requirements.
- Can you still operate legacy systems, and if so, to what extent?
- What can the auditor expect, and what solutions would be considered acceptable?
- How can existing systems be specified retrospectively?
- How can compliance be achieved from a QA perspective?
- What can be done if important cybersecurity issues can no longer be technically controlled?
Query / Discussion - Problems / Expectations
- Which systems are affected?
- Why have these systems not been adequately qualified?
- Retrospective qualification
Legacy Systems regulatory Requirements and Inspections
- Old systems, legacy systems and existing non-compliant systems - characteristics and problems
- Regulatory considerations
- Annex 11 and Annex 15
- PIC/S PI 011
- GAMP GPG: The Validation of Legacy Systems
- Inspection considerations
Legacy Systems: Ensuring Compliance from a QA Perspective
- Legacy systems: IT security / virus protection / data protection
- On-site infrastructure
- System-side IT components
- Qualification / validation of legacy IT systems
How to write URS for existing Systems
- URS for existing systems: Waste of time or added value?
- Why creating URS is easier for existing systems
- Beyond the URS: the functional description
Case Studies: Contingency Planning / Support from the Manufacturer
- Initial situation for existing systems
- Manufacturer support: Hardware & software, security patches
- Mechanical spare parts
- How and what can be planned?
- What “unsolvable” dependencies exist?
What does risk-based Deployment mean for existing Systems?
- Suitability for use
- Learning from operational experience
- Importance of periodic evaluation and its results
- Quality efficiency
Old Systems, Legacy Systems and existing Systems = Data Integrity light?
- Brief overview of the ALCOA++ principles
- PIC/S PI 041-1: Data integrity
- General problems: inadequate knowledge of the pharmaceutical process and data flow, lack of data definitions, non-existent definition of the GxP relevance of the generated data
- Examples of problems with legacy systems and possible solutions
- Missing audit trail functionality vs. necessity of an operational audit trail
- Problems with user administration (no/too few users can be parameterized within the system)
- Data management: ring memory, system data on USB sticks/SD cards > how to deal with this?
Technical Details
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Training Course Documentation and Certificate
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