People are more aware than ever of the many amazing ways new treatments can improve their lives. As a result, life sciences companies are under more pressure than ever to safely deliver new, innovative treatments to market to satisfy customer demand. The key to...
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Improving Digital Maturity is Key to Life Sciences Success
In just the last 10 years, biopharmaceutical supply chains have changed dramatically. The single-source manufacturing model is becoming much rarer, making way for multi-enterprise manufacturing collaborations and partnerships to better meet the changing needs of the...
Module Type Package Unlocks the Flexibility Driving Pharma Innovation
There can be little question that Industry 4.0 technologies are reshaping the way life sciences companies operate. In the wake of the rapid development of vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic, more facilities than ever are being “born digital.” Some of these...
Let your Personnel Lead you to the Adaptive Plant
On Monday at the Emerson Exchange Users’ Conference, Emerson’s Michalle Adkins and AbbVie’s Jeff Ziolkowski moderated a panel with Fujifilm’s Soren Skerris, Takeda’s Dr. Nina Schwalb, Eli Lilly’s James Weber, and Emerson’s Christian Berg. The experts shared the...
BioPhorum’s Roadmap for Speed to Market with In-Line Monitoring and Real-Time Release
Traditional manufacturing practices have served the biopharmaceutical industry well for years, but times are changing and a need for speed to market in life sciences while reducing manufacturing costs is putting a focus on enabling real-time release (RTR)....
Shorten the Equipment Validation Process to Bring Projects Online Faster
One of the key stages delaying and increasing costs in life sciences projects is equipment validation. In fact, it is one of the elements of project completion that project teams are most eager to compress because the value of every incremental improvement is so...
Increasing Life Sciences Manufacturing Capacity
In an Australasian BioTechnology article, Facilities for a Strong Future, Emerson’s Michalle Adkins and Makarand Mujumdar share how pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers can improve local capacity to meet the needs of the regions in which they operate.
Effective Personnel Drive Operational Integrity
As consumers of medicinal products of various kinds (vaccines, immunotherapies, tablets, capsules, cell therapies, etc.), we know that although product quality is important, reliable supply is also critical. A reliable supplier of therapeutic goods requires the...
Improving Logical Changeover Production Readiness in the Life Sciences
Technology has continued to advance and provide ways to assist pharmaceutical & biopharmaceutical manufacturers with production readiness. Improper set up and qualification of automation and information management production applications cause start-up and product changeover delays, as well as slow performance during production runs.
Making Medicine Personal with Flexible Automation Solutions
Personalized medicine manufacturers are rapidly changing their manufacturing platforms to provide a new scale of production. In the Emerson Exchange Virtual Series, life sciences experts held an open Q&A on the trajectory of cell and gene therapies, and how a...
Building Cross-Cultural Awareness
At a recent Emerson Exchange Americas virtual presentation session, Emerson’s Michalle Adkins and Alpana Desai presented on communicating with cross-cultural awareness.
Improving Product and Process Development in Life Sciences
Emerson’s Michalle Adkins will be discussing villains and heroes in knowledge management at the fully digital November 2-6, 2020 ISPE Annual Meeting and Expo.
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