This week, the International Foundation Process Analytical Chemistry (IFPAC) is holding their 26th international forum and exhibition in Baltimore, Maryland USA. At this event, Emerson's Chris Amstutz, Life Sciences industry consulting team director, gave a...
Operations & Business Management
Continuous Process Verification per FDA Process Validation Guidance
It was just about a year ago that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration published their Guidance for Industry - Process Validation: General Principles and Practices. I caught up with Emerson's Heather Schwalje, a senior consultant on the Life Sciences industry team....
Chemical Manufacturing Moving to Ends of the Spectrum
The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), a global professional membership organization for people who have an interest in and experience in chemical engineering, triennially holds an event, Advances in Process Control 9 (APC 9). This year's event will be...
Live John Berra WBF Keynote – Small Victories Mean Big Improvements
The WBF - The Organization for Production Technology is holding their annual North American conference this week with the theme, Sharpening the Tools of Manufacturing. John Berra, Chairman Emerson Process Management (Retired) will be delivering the keynote...
How We Manage Our Companies
Dave Beckmann, a consultant, motivational speaker, and retired Emerson Process Management senior vice president, has a thought-provoking article on ControlGlobal.com, The Future of Process Management. His message is on the need to change the way we manage our...
Planning an Electronic Document Management Project
It's great that Tim Alosi, from Emerson local business partner, New England Controls, was in town this past week. He saw the recent post, Shrinking Batch Record Creation Time and Document Management Complexity. Repligen is one of New England Controls customers, and...
Shrinking Batch Record Creation Time and Document Management Complexity
I was digging around for the story behind the story of a biotech manufacturer, Repligen's improved compliance through document management project. Emerson's Lynn Richard was the solution architect who worked with the Repligen team. Given the production volumes for...
Getting Plant Alarms under Control
I discovered this post yesterday, Alarming Links & Resources from the Harold in Control blog. It included a link to a DeltaV whitepaper on Alarm Rationalization. It also pointed to a LinkedIn discussion in the Alarm Management group, Alarm Rationalisation Success...
Sharing How to Solve a Browser Security Issue
One of the things that makes some blogs so valuable is the technical expertise they can share with words, pictures, audio, and video. One example is Bruce Greenwald's Process Control Musings blog. Bruce is a VP of engineering services for the RE Mason Company, an...
Organizational Change and Process Analytical Technology and Quality by Design
On Pharmaceutical Manufacturing magazine's web site, PharmaManufacturing.com is an 8-minute video presentation given by Emerson's Melissa Herkt. She gave the presentation, Excellence by Design: Melissa Herkt on The Case for PAT and QbD at the May 11-12 2010...
Paperless, Release by Exception Electronic Workflows
If your current work processes are causing delays in getting your manufactured products released for sale, you may want to catch Christie Deitz', Electronic Workflow for a Bioreactor presentation. She'll be co-presenting with an automation engineer from a leading...
Shrinking that Cycle Time
An Emerson fellow blogger, Alan Babbitt, and his Emerson Global Life Sciences Blog was first to the scene to cover a great Bioprocess International article, Hurry Up and Wait? The article, by Emerson senior Life Sciences industry consultant, Michalle Adkins, describes...
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