Manufacturing processes have long been paper-based with log entries, initialing, signoffs and other transactions to manually record. While automation systems have captured some of this manual recordkeeping, they have not been able to capture everything. In batch...
Operations & Business Management
Reducing Execution Errors in Cell Therapeutics Manufacturing
In an earlier post, Managing the Chain of Identity in Cell Therapeutics Manufacturing, we highlighted how the manufacturing process of these cell therapies must be performed with absolute accuracy the first time since each batch is produced for a specific patient....
Managing the Chain of Identity in Cell Therapeutics Manufacturing
Medicines produced by pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers are manufactured in many ways. One particular type of treatment, cell therapy, is defined as: …the transplantation of human or animal cells to replace or repair damaged tissue. From a manufacturing...
Improving Batch Manufacturing Workflows and Recordkeeping
The pharmaceutical and biotechnology manufacturing industries are challenged with errors in manual entries in the production process, getting batches right the first time, reaching final signoff for batch release, and managing the data accumulated throughout the...
Improving Raw Material Management Productivity
For manufacturers in highly-regulated industries, such as pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturing, it is critical to keep track of raw materials as part of the production records. To minimize or avoid waste, it's also important to use the first-to-expire...
Challenge of Designing PCS-Driven MES Architectures for a Greenfield Facility
Author: Jonathan Lustri I have previously written about a design strategy where the process control system (PCS) is the primary system driving all procedural batch activity within a pharmaceutical process. In this architecture, the PCS ISA-88 procedural model must...
Best Practices Specifying MES Workflows for Life Sciences Projects
Author: Jonathan Lustri Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Life Sciences projects can be costly and be a challenge to keep in control. The biggest contributor to these challenges are the defining and design of manufacturing workflows. A Workflow is an MES procedural...
Integrating Single Use Equipment More Easily with Control and Manufacturing Execution Systems
One of the trends in the biopharmaceutical industries that have taken root over the past decade and a half is the use of single-use, disposable equipment in the manufacturing process. Prior to their use, these facilities relied on inflexible, hard-piped equipment. An...
Integrated Biometric Authentication in Electronic Records
How many of you have more passwords than you can possibly remember? Count me in with the affirmatives. Biometric authentication is one way to overcome this large and growing problem. For process manufacturers and producers, especially those in highly regulated...
Automating Tank Farm Systems and Work Practices
Have you ever stopped to consider the path and ownership transfers your car's gasoline or diesel took from the wellhead when it was still crude oil until you pumped it into your tank at the gas station? For the businesses involved in custody transfer process through...
Deploying Syncade Manufacturing Execution System in a Non-English Language
Author: Jonathan Lustri I recently worked on a Syncade manufacturing execution system (MES) project where the system was deployed in Danish. Emerson executes all its projects with a global team and this one was no different. Our customer was Danish and we had team...
Niche-Buster Medicine Information Solutions
Author: Michalle Adkins We are seeing a trend in the life sciences industry moving away from blockbusters to niche busters, population based medicines and even to the extreme of personalized medicines. The Emerson Life Sciences consulting team recently had the...
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