Author: Scott Turner A lot of businesses benchmark themselves against other companies in the same industry and against themselves over time using various metrics and key performance indicators (KPI's). One example of this is Solomon Associates Benchmarking which is...
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,...
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...
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...
Having to do more with less resources seems to be a common issue throughout the process industries. Process manufacturers are re-examining their people, processes, and technologies to look for ways to accomplish their business objectives more efficiently. I bring this...
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...
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...
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...
In a recent Pharmaceutical Processing magazine article, PAT Searches for its Identity, author Bikash Chatterjee discusses the seemingly slow pace of Process Analytical Technology (PAT) implementations. The article states: What the FDA has provided is a bold chance for...
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