Author: Gary Mitchell The Emerson Life Sciences Industry Solutions Group consultants, including Saroj Patnaik, Michalle Adkins, Jonathan Lustri, Zuwei Jin and me, will be joining Hillary Clinton, Sir Richard Branson and over 15,000 other attendees from Biotech and...
Michalle Adkins
Optimizing Formulation, Fill and Finish Manufacturing Facilities
Pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturing processes are complex and require well integrated and documented flows of information from upfront forecast demand and customer orders through the production process to inventory receipt and order fulfillment. The components...
Planning Process for Life Science Optimization Projects
For many process manufacturers with lean engineering staffs, partnering with outside automation specialists is critical for successful automation and optimization projects. Emerson's Michalle Adkins, who leads the Life Sciences Industry Solutions consulting team,...
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...
Aligning Stakeholders in Operations Management Projects
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...
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...
Justifying New Tech Investment When the Plant Is Running Full Out
I wanted to share my guest post over at the PharmaEvolution.com blog, Justifying New Tech Investment When the Plant Is Running Full Out. It can often be challenging to justify investing in new technology when a plant has spare capacity, as Michalle Adkins mentioned...
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...
You Already Asked Me That!
I recently saw an interesting discussion about the use of consultants. One question that came up was why they seem to ask the same question in slightly different ways or the same question to different functional groups in an organization. Emerson's Michalle Adkins, a...
Avoiding Moisture Variability in Fluidized Bed Dryer Operations
In an earlier post, Trends in Process Analytical Technology and Quality by Design, I highlight a point made in the video, "…PAT methods around product moisture, which projected a $2 million annual savings in improved product quality." The methodology used for the...
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...
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