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...
Operations & Business Management
Bridging Islands of Automation
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...
Electronic Batch Record Design Considerations
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...
Prototyping Key in Manufacturing Execution System Projects
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...
Fluidized Bed and Bin Blender PAT Applications
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...
Aligning Stakeholders in Operations Management Projects
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...
Interfaces to Consider for Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Projects
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...
CPhI Pharma Evolution Guest Post-Electronic Batch Records: Are Your Systems Ready for Inspection?
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...
Impact of Single Use Technologies on Automation and Information Management
One of the conversations happening among pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers is around the "facility of the future". I caught up with Emerson's Gary Mitchell, a consultant on the Life Sciences industry team. He shared some of the trends prompting this relook at...
Interphex Panel-Implementing Electronic Batch Records
If you're in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, you likely know that Interphex takes place today through Thursday at the Javits Center in New York City. On Wednesday at 1:30-2:30pm in 1E10, Emerson's Michalle Adkins will be leading a panel, Road Map to...
Automation Project Justification when not Running at Capacity
Justifications for automation investments can be based on many factors—increasing revenues, reducing costs, increasing working capital efficiency, and maximizing the return on fixed capital. How do you justify automation investments from a production process not...
Automated, Integrated, and Improved Terminal Operations
Tank storage facilities are critical in the supply chain from feedstock production through mid-stream and end user distribution. At last summer's Emerson Exchange Düsseldorf conference, Vopak's Louis Janssen and Emerson's Cor Vermeijs presented, Improved terminal...
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