To know where you’re going, you have to know where you are, and operating a life sciences manufacturing facility is no exception. Pharmaceutical processors regularly have to take stock of their technological capacity to keep a finger on the pulse of the four main...
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Leverage Life Sciences Software to Reduce Time to Market
The days of maintaining paper records across the life sciences development and production pipeline are gone. Today’s regulatory requirements, not to mention the complexity of new treatments, requires organization that can only be provided electronically. However,...
Software Simplifies Technology Transfer
The life sciences marketplace is changing faster than nearly any other industry. Gone are the days when companies focus on a single treatment to drive their entire business. Today’s life sciences manufacturers are challenged to bring new treatments to the marketplace...
Making Medicine Personal with Flexible Automation Solutions
Personalized medicine manufacturers are rapidly changing their manufacturing platforms to provide a new scale of production. In the Emerson Exchange Virtual Series, life sciences experts held an open Q&A on the trajectory of cell and gene therapies, and how a...
Conference Room Pilots to Generate Involvement in MES Projects
Author: Jonathan Lustri As a Life Sciences consultant, I get involved in many different aspects of MES [manufacturing execution system] projects. In a recent project, I helped define the project execution plan. I knew Emerson's biotech customer was highly concerned...
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...
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...
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...
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