Biological Production 2009 is the conference and networking event which brings together Europe's leading biological manufacturing, production and cGMP specialists to debate both upstream and downstream industry challenges including Opex and Capacity.Conference highlights for this year include: - Cost of goods reduction in upstream, downstream and quality systems - Next generation manufacturing processes - achieving 75% lead time reduction and threefold productivity increases - Lean, cheap and profitable European operations - across the board cost reduction strategies - Tech transfer and scale up success - ensuring comparability and maintaining profitability - Capacity planning and utilisation - enhancing bio manufacturing facilities - Multi product pipeline planning and production - Implementing PAT and QBD for new products within existing commercial manufacturing environments(source: www.biologicalproduction.com)