Argonaut Blog & News
From Special Ops to Serving Argonaut Clients
Argonaut Manufacturing Services is proud to announce the recent honor bestowed on our very own Client Services Manager, Matt Curran. Matt has recently transitioned from the elite Marine Corp Raiders community. To assist in his transition from the Spe [...]
Learn how to keep your manufacturing train from derailing
This animated video explains how biotech and diagnostic companies can reduce manufacturing risk while getting to market faster. The manufacturing journey doesn't have to be hard. If you want reagents, made right, watch this video. Want to learn more [...]
Do You Know the Silent Killer of Biotech Supply Chains?
As operations and manufacturing professionals, we understand the standard supply chain errors such as running too lean, lack of transparency or failing to plan for business disruption. However, there is one, often-overlooked, killer of supply chain c [...]
Argonaut FDA Registration in Genome Web Brief
Argonaut FDA registration highlighted in GenomeWeb Brief. Read more about it here. [...]
Argonaut Announces FDA Site Registration
Argonaut Manufacturing Services is proud to announce their registration with the Food and Drug Administration as a medical device establishment. The registration follows an earlier certification of ISO 13485:2016 as Argonaut Manufacturing Services co [...]
Argonaut in GenomeWeb Brief
An Argonaut first! We were picked up by GenomeWeb covering our ISO 13485:2016 certification achievement and financing from Square 1 Bank. Read more about it on GenomeWeb here. [...]
Square 1 Bank Announces Credit Facility to Argonaut Manufacturing Services
As announced on Nasdaq GlobeNewswire: SAN DIEGO, Jan. 18, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Square 1 Bank, a division of Pacific Western Bank, today announced that it has provided a $5 million credit facility to new client Argonaut Manufacturing Services, a l [...]
Argonaut Announces ISO 13485:2016 Quality Certification Achievement
Argonaut Manufacturing Services, a contract manufacturing organization (CMO) dedicated to serving the life science and molecular diagnostics markets, announced today that it has received ISO 13485:2016 certification following a successful inspection [...]
Argonaut Celebrates Grand Opening
Argonaut Manufacturing Services celebrated the opening of their facility with a Grand Opening Open House on November 17th, 2016. It was heavily attended and very well received. It was held at their facility in Carlsbad, CA and over 150 guests attend [...]
8 Tips to Help Your Team During Annual Operational Planning (AOP)
Surviving Annual Operational Planning: Part 2. One of the largest challenges a leader faces is keeping their team motivated during annual operational planning season. In my experience, two camps form; one that calls for immediate action and one that [...]
Tips on Surviving Annual Operations Planning: Part 1
How to Assess Your Operations Balance. Annual operations planning – the time of year when those of us in Life Science Operations consider a change of career. Anything seems preferable to the impending countless questions and seemingly endless meeting [...]
Manufacturing On The Edge: Part 1- Quality by Design
Do you rely on end-testing your finished product as the primary quality step? If so, you should consider a change! There are strong benefits to shifting to a quality method that provides visibility upstream to the entire manufacturing process. Not on [...]
Should I purchase an eQMS?
Establishing an electronic (or enterprise) Quality Management System is an expensive undertaking. So is it worth it? What is the value of having a good quality system; one that is fully transparent, trackable, validated, and available at all times, [...]
The Love/Hate Relationship With Your Long Tail SKUs
Does your company hold on to relatively slow moving SKUs while simultaneously arguing they should be terminated? It’s a love/hate relationship that could be reconciled if these long-tail SKUs continued to generate revenue but without tying up cash or [...]