About VCI

I not only use all the brains I have,
but all that I can borrow.

-- Woodrow Wilson

Validation and Compliance Institute, LLC, is a company of full-time professionals with a broad spectrum of expertise dedicated to the success of the customers they serve. VCI can help you to develop, implement and maintain world class quality systems. You don't have to support every piece of the business puzzle in house. When you work with VCI you tap into a network of knowledge. Your team expands to include VCI's accumulated expertise. VCI professionals have hands-on knowledge in validation, production, quality, and R&D acquired by working in and managing these different areas. This operational expertise gives VCI a critical edge. The VCI system leaves you with a validation that allows flexibility and continued success for years into the future. It may be quicker to write protocols with a narrow range of acceptance criteria, but frequently with little or no additional time we can build in broader criteria that provide for multiple uses of the equipment during its lifetime. The result for you is lower total cost and quicker market response times. VCI will save your company money through compliance and validation. Ask us how.

Operational experience provides VCI associates with the ability to add value to all aspects of your compliance program. From training to cultural transformation VCI is your partner for quality.

Why is VCI uniquely equipped to view your business in such a holistic fashion? One reason is the varied experience that each VCI associate has in the industry. More important, however, is corporate culture of active teamwork. Most people when asked to define teamwork might respond that everyone simply has to do their job. VCI's definition is a little different: A group of people with different skills and different tasks, who actively help each other to reach a common goal, achieving results greater than the sum of the parts. VCI associates know that they can call on one another at any time to consult on a project. That same resource is there for the customer as well. Tap into the VCI team to satisfy your validation and compliance needs. Call (734) 274-4680 or email us at Ask VCI to find out how VCI can help you.

Dr. Norm Howe
VCI Senior Partner

Norm has held many management positions in the pharmaceutical industry, most in production at BASF. He has led a number of cross-functional cost reduction, product development, and business optimization teams. He has lead teams that have developed more than a dozen new products and installed more than $60M in capital. He is an adjunct Professor of Regulatory Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and has authored articles on compliance, chemistry, and general management. He serves as an expert witness. He is a member of ISPE and the American Chemical Society. Norm Howe got his BS in chemistry at UC, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in chemistry at UCLA under Donald J. Cram.