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  • Interphex Panel-Implementing Electronic Batch Records

    Jim Cahill
    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 Implementing EBR [electronic batch records] #505 . Here’s the description for this panel: EBR/MES benefits will not be fully realized until you “lean the…

  • Interphex Panel-Implementing Electronic Batch Records

    Jim Cahill
    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 Implementing EBR [electronic batch records] #505 . Here’s the description for this panel: EBR/MES benefits will not be fully realized until you “lean the…

  • Automation Project Justification when not Running at Capacity

    Jim Cahill
    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...

  • Automation Project Justification when not Running at Capacity

    Jim Cahill
    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 running at capacity? I caught up with Emerson’s Michalle Adkins , whom you may recall from earlier Life Sciences-related posts . For pharmaceutical and biotech…

  • Automated, Integrated, and Improved Terminal Operations

    Jim Cahill
    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...

  • Automated, Integrated, and Improved Terminal Operations

    Jim Cahill
    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 operations by terminal automation. Vopak provides independent storage and transshipment downstream of production, refining, and products transmission, and upstream…

  • Manufacturing Obstacles in Life Sciences

    Jim Cahill
    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...

  • Managing the Software Development Lifecycle for Validated Processes

    Jim Cahill
    For those in the biotech and pharmaceutical manufacturing industries, Emerson’s Chris Amstutz has been sharing a great series of forum posts in the Emerson Exchange 365 community, Life Sciences track. Here are a few examples of some specific SAP to manufacturing...

  • Visualizing and Analyzing Real-Time Batch Data

    Jim Cahill
    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...

  • Interphex 2012 – Real-Time Release in Production Recipes

    Jim Cahill
    I noted in yesterday’s post that two major industry conferences were happing this week—the pharmaceutical and biotech industry’s Interphex show and the oil and gas industry’s Offshore Technology Conference (OTC). I highlighted happenings from OTC in that...

  • Efficiently Managing Globally Dispersed Clinical Trial Documentation

    Jim Cahill
    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...

  • Mistake Proofing Pharmaceutical Production and Documentation Processes

    Jim Cahill
    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...

  • Using Operational Excellence Techniques to Understand and Solve Business Problems

    Jim Cahill
    Pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers, like other process manufacturers, are under constant pressure to improve the performance of their business—product quality, safety, plant efficiency, and throughput. Emerson’s Michalle Adkins, a senior consultant...

  • Managing the Pharmaceutical and Biotech Technology Transfer Process

    Jim Cahill
    In a Research and Markets report, Technology Transfer Strategies – A Guide to Maximizing Returns Within the Pharmaceutical and Biopharmaceutical Industries, the authors note: The efficient and effective transfer of new technologies is widely recognized...

  • Faster Product Releases with PAT Methods in Production Recipes

    Jim Cahill
    This week, the International Foundation Process Analytical Chemistry (IFPAC) is holding their 26th international forum and exhibition in Baltimore, Maryland USA. At this event, Emerson’s Chris Amstutz, Life Sciences industry consulting team director,...

  • Continuous Process Verification per FDA Process Validation Guidance

    Jim Cahill
    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...

  • Chemical Manufacturing Moving to Ends of the Spectrum

    Jim Cahill
    The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), a global professional membership organization for people who have an interest in and experience in chemical engineering, triennially holds an event, Advances in Process Control 9 (APC 9). This year’s event...

  • Live John Berra WBF Keynote – Small Victories Mean Big Improvements

    Jim Cahill
    The WBF – The Organization for Production Technology is holding their annual North American conference this week with the theme, Sharpening the Tools of Manufacturing. John Berra, Chairman Emerson Process Management (Retired) will be delivering the keynote...

  • How We Manage Our Companies

    Jim Cahill
    Dave Beckmann, a consultant, motivational speaker, and retired Emerson Process Management senior vice president, has a thought-provoking article on ControlGlobal.com, The Future of Process Management. His message is on the need to change the way we manage...

  • Planning an Electronic Document Management Project

    Jim Cahill
    It’s great that Tim Alosi, from Emerson local business partner, New England Controls, was in town this past week. He saw the recent post, Shrinking Batch Record Creation Time and Document Management Complexity. Repligen is one of New England Controls...

  • Shrinking Batch Record Creation Time and Document Management Complexity

    Jim Cahill
    I was digging around for the story behind the story of a biotech manufacturer, Repligen’s improved compliance through document management project. Emerson’s Lynn Richard was the solution architect who worked with the Repligen team. Given the production...

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