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...
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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...
Trends in Process Analytical Technology and Quality by Design
At the recent conference for pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers, Interphex 2012, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing magazine Editor in Chief Agnes Shanley discussed trends in the industry's use of process analytical technology (PAT) and quality by design (QbD) with...
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...
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....
Bioreactor Electronic Workflow Project at WBF Conference
Emerson's Christie Deitz and Bristol-Meyers Squibb's Joe Maguire are presenting, Electronic Workflow for a Bioreactor, at the 2010 WBF North American Conference this week in Austin. Their abstract: Automating workflow and eliminating paper batch records can provide...
Electronically Dispatching Work Procedures
I saw a tweet yesterday, which pointed to a great BioProcess International article, Biopharmaceutical Information Infrastructure 2.0 (Part 1 of 2). I sent the link to Emerson's Jonathan Lustri, who manages the Syncade smart operations management brand for his...
Perspectives on FDA Globalization Act
In an earlier post I mentioned how Emerson's Shenling Yang had taken an assignment in Shanghai, China. She's bringing her expertise in operations management and the Syncade software gained while executing projects as a member of the Life Sciences industry team....
Critical Backup for Your ISA95 Level 3 Information
I caught up the other day with Emerson's Shenling Yang, who is a senior project execution engineer in the Life Sciences and Food & Beverage (LSFB) industry group. You may recall Shenling from earlier posts. She shared two pieces of news with me. The first is that...
Decisions for Operations Management Architectures
At the request of one of Emerson Process Experts blog readers who has long commute to and from his office, I started to add podcast recordings at the end of each post to provide an audio version of each post, beginning this past October. Today, I thought we'd push the...
Control and MES Integration Project Advice and Benefits
As reported in my DeltaV News RSS feed, Emerson's Michalle Adkins and Dawn Marruchella have written a great piece in the AIChE's Chemical Engineering Progress Magazine entitled, Ask the Experts - Avoiding the Pains of Systems Integration. In it, they recognize some of...
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