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...
Operations & Business Management
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...
Manufacturing Obstacles in Life Sciences
In an article, From Industrial To Investment Strategies In The Life Science Sector, Life Science Leader magazine has a great recap of some of the issues pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers face in their manufacturing processes. The article highlights...
Managing the Software Development Lifecycle for Validated Processes
For those in the biotech and pharmaceutical manufacturing industries, Emerson's Chris Amstutz has been sharing a great series of forum posts in the Emerson Exchange 365 community, Life Sciences track. Here are a few examples of some specific SAP to manufacturing...
Visualizing and Analyzing Real-Time Batch Data
As organizations have started to come to terms with the big data sets they have been collecting, they have started to look for strategies and tools to help them make decisions about what products to make and how to make them most efficiently. For highly regulated...
Interphex 2012 – Real-Time Release in Production Recipes
I noted in yesterday's post that two major industry conferences were happing this week—the pharmaceutical and biotech industry's Interphex show and the oil and gas industry's Offshore Technology Conference (OTC). I highlighted happenings from OTC in that post. Today...
Efficiently Managing Globally Dispersed Clinical Trial Documentation
I had a chance to connect with Emerson's Michalle Adkins, a Senior Consultant on the Global Life Sciences Industry Solutions team. She shared a story about a leading company, which conducts clinical trials for pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers. Their challenge...
Mistake Proofing Pharmaceutical Production and Documentation Processes
As a follow up to the post, Using Operational Excellence Techniques to Understand and Solve Business Problems, Emerson's Michalle Adkins shared a great story of one pharmaceutical manufacturer's path to justify technology to help their business objective to reduce...
Using Operational Excellence Techniques to Understand and Solve Business Problems
Pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers, like other process manufacturers, are under constant pressure to improve the performance of their business—product quality, safety, plant efficiency, and throughput. Emerson's Michalle Adkins, a senior consultant on the Life...
Managing the Pharmaceutical and Biotech Technology Transfer Process
In a Research and Markets report, Technology Transfer Strategies - A Guide to Maximizing Returns Within the Pharmaceutical and Biopharmaceutical Industries, the authors note: The efficient and effective transfer of new technologies is widely recognized as being a key...
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