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...
David Rehbein
Establishing a Process Analytical Technology Program
We're now just a couple of weeks away from the September 30-October 4 Emerson Exchange conference in the Dallas/Fort Worth area of Texas. Today's the last day to save $200 on the conference fee, so register today if you're planning on joining us. If you're in the...
Gain a Deeper Process Understanding through Batch Analytics
Models can help bring understanding to complex processes. In batch manufacturing, one of the benefits from generating models from process history data is the process understanding gained by going through the steps of generating and refining the model. These steps...
Preparing Your Batch Processes to Add Analytics
Over the past several years, I've covered the advancements in batch analytics to improve the efficiency of batch processes and spot troubles early enough to avoid or resolve the trouble. There can be many simultaneous complex activities in batch operations including...
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...
Applying Batch Analytics to Fermentation Processes
Creating batch process models such as fermentation is challenging due to their inherent time variability batch to batch. It's also critical to know when problems are beginning to develop when corrective measures can be taken. Emerson's David Rehbein, a Senior Data...
Plant Floor Security Assessments
This is a great time of year to be a blogger for Emerson with the Emerson Exchange happening next week. It's that time when process manufacturing professionals, Emerson and local business partner professionals, and alliance members gather to exchange their expertise...
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