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....
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...
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...
Last week, Syncade smart operations management suite software was officially unveiled at ARC Advisory Group's Orlando Forum--Winning Strategies and Best Practices for Sustainable Manufacturing. The Syncade suite of software provides resource management, operations...
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...
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,...
As organizations have started to come to terms with the big data sets they have been collecting, they have started to look for strategies and tools to help them make decisions about what products to make and how to make them most efficiently. For highly regulated...
Manufacturing processes have long been paper-based with log entries, initialing, signoffs and other transactions to manually record. While automation systems have captured some of this manual recordkeeping, they have not been able to capture everything. In batch...
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...
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...
Tank storage facilities are critical in the supply chain from feedstock production through mid-stream and end user distribution. At last summer's Emerson Exchange Düsseldorf conference, Vopak's Louis Janssen and Emerson's Cor Vermeijs presented, Improved terminal...
In an article, From Industrial To Investment Strategies In The Life Science Sector, Life Science Leader magazine has a great recap of some of the issues pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers face in their manufacturing processes. The article highlights...
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