There are four core pillars we look to address in order to support pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturers in achieving line and facility efficiency goals.
Four Pillars for Life Sciences Line and Facility Efficiency
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Alan is a consultant to the Life Sciences industry. He assists manufacturers in using new and existing technology to address their challenges such as quality, pipeline acceleration, new product introduction, continuous manufacturing and operational efficiency.
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Fast Tracking Adaptable Manufacturing in Life Sciences
In a presentation at the ACHEMA Pulse virtual conference this year, Emerson’s Alan Johnston shared how fast rollout of COVID vaccine manufacturing has changed the mindset of how quickly a new therapy can move from development to commercial manufacturing and ultimately to the consumer.
Optimizing Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Processes
Emerson’s Alan Johnston shares how technology advances in real-time modeling, adaptive scheduling and predictive maintenance are enabling successes in optimization for biopharmaceutical manufacturers who may have a combination of both types of processes in their operations.
Life Sciences Operational Performance Improvement Webinar Series
For pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturers, the Life Sciences.NOW webinar series includes eight interactive discussions on digital plant technologies and will provide direction and updates on key manufacturing operation initiatives to improve operational performance, deliver cost effective quality and regulatory compliance and accelerate the product development pipeline.
Improving CAR-T Therapeutical Production
Alan Johnston describes gene therapy, cell therapy and CAR-T which combines both. These have the goal to treat disease by changing the blueprint to our body at a microscopic level.
Sharing Best Practices on Path to Pharma 4.0
Pharma 4.0 is an initiative based on Industry 4.0, begun out of the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering Germany/Austria/Switzerland (ISPE D/A/CH) organization, which lead to the formation of: …the ISPE Pharma 4.0 special interest group (SIG) in 2017....
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