ISPE, International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineering

The Containment Manual in German has now attracted more than 500 interested parties. It is now being included internationally in English as the ISPE Guide in the catalog.

Dr. Michael Atzor

Marcel Staudt

Jürgen Emmert

Gunter Baumgartner, Chair ISPE D/A/CH

Sharing Knowledge

The regulatory requirements in the manufacturing pharmaceutical industry apply across the entire value chain, for the benefit and protection of the patient. Knowing these requirements and implementing them in practice in compliance with regulations demands a lot from employees; this knowledge provides security.

An ISPE membership, with access to working groups and their results, workshops, ISPE Baseline Guides, eLearning, webinars, professional magazines, and other offerings conveys this knowledge.

In our regional working groups and workshops, we not only share knowledge but also develop and communicate best practice solutions together. As specialists work on these topics, recognized and practical guides are regularly created.

An example is the result of the ISPE D/A/CH Working Group Containment: the Containment Manual in German (see image) has now attracted more than 500 interested parties.

It is now being included internationally in English as an ISPE Guide in the catalog.

The Goal

To stay up-to-date with developments, recognize trends, and shape innovations based on them.

Our motivation: to shape PHARMA 2025 today.

We work on all topics of the manufacturing pharmaceutical industry, whether it’s Continuous Manufacturing or Pharma 4.0.

Utilize Network

With 19,000 members worldwide and 1,200 regionally in D/A/CH, through meetings, congresses, and lecture series, a network of specialists is accessible. Questions can be discussed online or in these personal meetings.

Pharmaceutical companies open their production facilities extensively for ISPE events and tours.

In the regional D/A/CH area, ISPE is very well represented with offerings (working groups, workshop and tour opportunities).

The Goal

To share experience and benefit from others’ experiences, especially in the regional D/A/CH area.

Promote Careers

Questions from personal work environments find quick, practical, and regulation-compliant answers in the ISPE knowledge pool (online databases, technical literature, working groups, workshops, lectures, tours) and within the member network.

This characterizes ISPE membership as support for your own career.

It’s a good win-win situation for all involved in the value chain: for you and for your employer.

We pay special attention to early career professionals. A dedicated ISPE D/A/CH group of Young Professionals, mentored by senior experts, uses the network.

The Goal

To support you on your career path.

What Colleagues from the Pharmaceutical Industry Say...

"The ISPE community offers an ideal platform for knowledge and experience exchange through its professional workshops and guidelines, including regulators."
Dr. Michael Atzor, VP,
Project Management & Engineering
Healthcare, Bayer AG, Leverkusen

"ISPE supports engineers in developing economically viable, patient-safe, and regulatory-compliant technologies; discussing and benchmarking openly across company boundaries."
Marcel Staudt, VP Engineering,
Bayer Consumer Health, Basel

"SPE provides a great opportunity for me to exchange ideas on trends and solutions in our fields of work. The topic of Operations Excellence can be well compared through benchmarking with other companies. We take away many suggestions."
Jürgen Emmert, Head of Project Engineering,
Boehringer Ingelheim, Ingelheim

Membership Benefits

• - Participation in ISPE workshops and congresses at reduced registration fees
• - Free membership in the regional ISPE D/A/CH e.V.
• - Free involvement in the working groups of ISPE Communities of Practice
• - Online contact with members (access to the ISPE member database)
• - Reduced member prices on the ISPE Baseline Guides, eLearning, and all knowledge offerings
• - Free subscription to the professional journal Pharmaceutical Engineering
• - Free technical information tailored to your interests and field (choice of Communities of Practice)
• - Students and early career professionals (Young Professionals) are very welcome

About ISPE

With more than 19,000 members worldwide and 1,200 members in the regional affiliate Germany/Austria/Switzerland, it is one of the largest non-profit organizations in the pharmaceutical sector. Members come from pharmaceutical manufacturing, machinery and plant engineering for the pharma industry, from the engineering departments of pharma companies and independent engineering firms, consulting, universities, and regulatory authorities.

We are connected by our professional proximity to pharmaceutical production, production technologies and standards, and regulations.

With consolidated expert knowledge, patient safety-oriented Good Manufacturing Best Practice solutions of the highest quality and efficiency are developed, shaping pharmaceutical production today for 2025: