Making an operational step change in a production process involves a clear vision and people, processes and tools to execute the vision. A July/August 2014 Tank Storage magazine article, Automating terminal operations, highlights the story of Vopak transforming their...
In 2011, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) published their Guidance for Industry – Process Validation: General Principles and Practices. A PharmManufacturing.com article, A Framework for Technology Transfer to Satisfy the Requirements of the New Process...
Let's close this work week with a look at tools to manage health, safety, and environmental (HSE) compliance in terminal facilities—also known as oil depots, tank farms, storage terminals, etc. Given the hazardous oil and/or petrochemical products they store, HSE...
Moving and properly accounting for the products in a terminal facility requires quite a bit of logistical support and reporting. In this 14:57 YouTube video, Syncade Logistics: Reducing Product Integrity Surprises, Emerson's Brian Crandall demonstrates how these...
Emerson's Jonathan Lustri explores the trend towards continuous manufacturing for solid dose pharmaceuticals and the technologies and practices that make this possible. This past year I have become aware of a very big change that is coming to the pharmaceutical...
While integration technologies have helped bridge "islands of automation" over the years, some process manufacturers still have parts of their automated processes disconnected from the rest. Emerson's Gary Mitchell, a senior industry consultant on the Life Sciences...
Last week, the 2nd International Summit on GMP, GCP & Quality Control was held in Chicago, Illinois USA. Emerson's Heather Schwalje, a senior Life Sciences consultant, presented Moving beyond part 11; Quality assurance considerations for translating Current Good...
In an earlier post, Five Strategies for Mitigating Automation Project Risk, we highlighted the importance of prototyping: Risks in budget, schedule, changes, and project execution can be reduced with a prototyping strategy. Prototyping helps incorporate operational...
In the early 2000s, a Wall Street Journal article, New Prescription For Drug Makers: Update the Plants, shared the news: The FDA [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] has concluded that the industry needs to adopt manufacturing innovations, partly to raise quality...
The ISA-95 (IEC 62264) Enterprise-Control System Integration (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5) international standard provides a model to help define the boundaries between the enterprise systems and process control systems. As manufacturing operations seek to...
Projects to connect your process operations to your business processes and workflows typically require connections with several specialized software platforms. For manufacturers in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, these electronic connections span the ISA-95...
I wanted to share my guest post published at the CPhI Pharma Evolution website. There are some great comments, so join in if the post sparks some ideas. Stringent inspection-readiness policies are common with pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers. From a...
We invite you to follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube to stay up to date on the latest news, events and innovations that will help you face and solve your toughest challenges.
Just post a link to the entry and send us a quick note so we can share your work. Thank you very much.
Our Global Community
Emerson Exchange 365
This blog features expert perspectives from Emerson's automation professionals on industry trends, technologies, and best practices. The information shared here is intended to inform and educate our global community of users and partners.