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Driving Digital Transformation in Life Sciences: Key Opportunities and Challenges
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Driving Digital Transformation in Life Sciences: Key Opportunities and Challenges
Jim Cahill
The life sciences industry stands at a critical juncture, with digital transformation offering a path to greater innovation, efficiency, and regulatory compliance. To dive deeper into strategies for driving digital excellence in life sciences, download our comprehensive whitepaper: Download the Whitepaper: “Digital Excellence in Life Sciences” Integrating digital solutions across research, manufacturing, and data management…
6 Dec 2024
Simplifying Recipe Creation in the Life Sciences Podcast
Jim Cahill
Manufacturing execution systems have been indispensable in the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries to orchestrate manufacturing operations among the various enterprise and plant control and analytical systems. As the industry rapidly changes and needs to provide more personalized medicines and therapies, simpler, lighter-weight recipe creation and workflow management applications are required. In this…
7 Nov 2024
Saving the Environment While Saving Lives
Jim Cahill
The push for more sustainable operations around the globe has touched nearly every industry, and the life sciences are no exception. Manufacturing teams now need to carefully manage waste, energy use, water use, and emissions on top of all their existing responsibilities. Whether this responsibility falls on a massive organization or a small startup company , it creates headaches and complexity that distract teams from…
5 Nov 2024
Manufacturing Execution Systems for Greater Digital Maturity Podcast
Jim Cahill
Manufacturers in the Life Sciences industry are challenged with changing trends and the move to more personalized medicine solutions. Manufacturing execution systems (MES) play a critical role in optimizing the lifecycle of the production process from order through release for sale. Johan Zebib joins me in this Emerson Automation Experts podcast to share how MES addresses many of the challenges for higher quality, and…
9 Oct 2024
Enabling Boundless Automation in the Life Sciences Industry
Jim Cahill
Boundless Automation is Emerson’s vision for an industrial architecture built on a consistent, cohesive software ecosystem from intelligent field devices to the edge and to the cloud—integrating operations to make all data instantly accessible, understandable, and usable for analytics, innovation, and performance improvement. Several of our recent Life Sciences podcasts have featured conversations about the rapid shifts…
7 Oct 2024
DeltaV PKM for One-Click Tech Transfer Podcast
Jim Cahill
The technology transfer process for manufacturers in the Life Sciences industry has been traditionally a slow and cumbersome process to scale up from research and development to commercial production. Capturing the process knowledge along the way and making changes can slow down the overall process. In this Emerson Automation Experts podcast, Bob Lenich joins me to discuss how the Process Knowledge Management (PKM)…
11 Sep 2024
Life Sciences and Automation Companies Deliver the Future—Together
Jim Cahill
In the life sciences, bringing treatments to market quicker is no longer a bonus. Today, accelerating the treatment development pipeline is an expectation—arguably a core value—of the world’s most respected pharmaceutical companies. The pipeline for the COVID vaccine showed us that it was possible to operate differently , and companies around the globe have not only taken note; they’ve taken action . However, accelerating…
10 Sep 2024
Tailoring Automation for Tailored Medicines
Jim Cahill
The life sciences industry is changing rapidly. Where once companies were focused on developing blockbuster treatments and manufacturing them as quickly and safely as possible, today, personalized medicine has changed that landscape. Now life sciences companies are looking at specialized treatments like cell and gene therapies which are developed and manufactured quite differently from those traditional blockbuster drugs…
20 Aug 2024
Technology and Strategy Deliver Data Integrity
Jim Cahill
As the landscape of pharmaceutical manufacturing has changed in the last few years, one exciting shift has a distinct possibility of being a game changer in coming decades. Regulatory agencies have increasingly begun to recognize the importance of automation technologies, and, as a result, have incorporated more automation into their guidelines for good manufacturing practices (GMP). This trend aligns with industry’s…
13 Aug 2024
Technology and Strategy Deliver Data Integrity
Jim Cahill
As the landscape of pharmaceutical manufacturing has changed in the last few years, one exciting shift has a distinct possibility of being a game changer in coming decades. Regulatory agencies have increasingly begun to recognize the importance of automation technologies, and, as a result, have incorporated more automation into their guidelines for good manufacturing practices (GMP). This trend aligns with industry’s…
13 Aug 2024
Technology and Strategy Deliver Data Integrity
Jim Cahill
As the landscape of pharmaceutical manufacturing has changed in the last few years, one exciting shift has a distinct possibility of being a game changer in coming decades. Regulatory agencies have increasingly begun to recognize the importance of automation technologies, and, as a result, have incorporated more automation into their guidelines for good manufacturing practices (GMP). This trend aligns with industry’s…
13 Aug 2024
Experiencing Life Sciences Industry Solutions in Action Podcast
Jim Cahill
Personalized healthcare, time-to-market pressures, and accurate, timely data collection and dissemination are all significant trends for manufacturers in the Life Sciences industry. Knowing that digital transformation efforts are required is one thing, but determining how best to proceed is another. In this podcast, Bill Carey joins me to discuss the Life Sciences Showroom facility in the Austin, Texas area. The showroom…
7 Aug 2024
Experiencing Life Sciences Industry Solutions in Action Podcast
Jim Cahill
Personalized healthcare, time-to-market pressures, and accurate, timely data collection and dissemination are all significant trends for manufacturers in the Life Sciences industry. Knowing that digital transformation efforts are required is one thing, but determining how best to proceed is another. In this podcast, Bill Carey joins me to discuss the Life Sciences Showroom facility in the Austin, Texas area. The showroom…
7 Aug 2024
Modern Control Systems Enable Step Change Improvements for Life Sciences
Jim Cahill
Despite the challenges involved, the opportunity to make step change operational improvements is encouraging life sciences companies to embark on control system modernisation projects well before parts become hard to source and the system impacts productivity (usually the prerequisites). We speak with Emerson’s Rob Spilsbury and Albina Pace about how modern control systems support improved traceability, compliance and…
30 Jul 2024
Modern Control Systems Enable Step Change Improvements for Life Sciences
Jim Cahill
Despite the challenges involved, the opportunity to make step change operational improvements is encouraging life sciences companies to embark on control system modernisation projects well before parts become hard to source and the system impacts productivity (usually the prerequisites). We speak with Emerson’s Rob Spilsbury and Albina Pace about how modern control systems support improved traceability, compliance and…
30 Jul 2024
Modern Control Systems Enable Step Change Improvements for Life Sciences
Jim Cahill
Despite the challenges involved, the opportunity to make step change operational improvements is encouraging life sciences companies to embark on control system modernisation projects well before parts become hard to source and the system impacts productivity (usually the prerequisites). We speak with Emerson’s Rob Spilsbury and Albina Pace about how modern control systems support improved traceability, compliance and…
30 Jul 2024
Trends, Challenges and Solutions in the Life Sciences Industry Podcast
Jim Cahill
The Life Sciences industry has undergone significant changes over the past several years. From responses to a global pandemic to the advancement of personal therapies, the need for automation and effective data management has never been greater. In this Emerson Automation Experts podcast, Dave Imming joins me to highlight some of these trends, the challenges they have introduced, and technology’s role in addressing…
1 Jul 2024
Trends, Challenges and Solutions in the Life Sciences Industry Podcast
Jim Cahill
The Life Sciences industry has undergone significant changes over the past several years. From responses to a global pandemic to the advancement of personal therapies, the need for automation and effective data management has never been greater. In this Emerson Automation Experts podcast, Dave Imming joins me to highlight some of these trends, the challenges they have introduced, and technology’s role in addressing…
1 Jul 2024
Tools for Solving Compressible Fluid Flow Challenges with Today’s DP Technologies
Jim Cahill
In an automation.com article, Emerson’s Michael Flesch explains how advances in DP flow metering technology solve measurement challenges of compressible fluids. One of the perpetual instrumentation challenges that engineering students and working technicians face is measuring the flow of a gas, or worse, steam. The main problems emerge due to the compressible nature of such fluids, resulting in far more variables entering…
7 May 2024
Tools for Solving Compressible Fluid Flow Challenges with Today’s DP Technologies
Jim Cahill
In an automation.com article, Emerson’s Michael Flesch explains how advances in DP flow metering technology solve measurement challenges of compressible fluids. One of the perpetual instrumentation challenges that engineering students and working technicians face is measuring the flow of a gas, or worse, steam. The main problems emerge due to the compressible nature of such fluids, resulting in far more variables entering…
7 May 2024
Tools for Solving Compressible Fluid Flow Challenges with Today’s DP Technologies
Jim Cahill
In an automation.com article, Emerson’s Michael Flesch explains how advances in DP flow metering technology solve measurement challenges of compressible fluids. One of the perpetual instrumentation challenges that engineering students and working technicians face is measuring the flow of a gas, or worse, steam. The main problems emerge due to the compressible nature of such fluids, resulting in far more variables entering…
7 May 2024
How to Understand and Use a Great Tool: Instrumentation Diagnostics
Jim Cahill
In a Process Instrumentation article, Emerson’s Kelly Albano looks at a powerful but often underutilized tool, instrumentation diagnostics, and shows how you can use them to improve operations. Recently, while loading some software onto my computer, I saw a message at the end: Software Installed Successfully! Maybe this doesn’t sound like much, but it’s always reassuring when something has worked as it’s supposed to…
29 Apr 2024
How to Understand and Use a Great Tool: Instrumentation Diagnostics
Jim Cahill
In a Process Instrumentation article, Emerson’s Kelly Albano looks at a powerful but often underutilized tool, instrumentation diagnostics, and shows how you can use them to improve operations. Recently, while loading some software onto my computer, I saw a message at the end: Software Installed Successfully! Maybe this doesn’t sound like much, but it’s always reassuring when something has worked as it’s supposed to…
29 Apr 2024
How to Understand and Use a Great Tool: Instrumentation Diagnostics
Jim Cahill
In a Process Instrumentation article, Emerson’s Kelly Albano looks at a powerful but often underutilized tool, instrumentation diagnostics, and shows how you can use them to improve operations. Recently, while loading some software onto my computer, I saw a message at the end: Software Installed Successfully! Maybe this doesn’t sound like much, but it’s always reassuring when something has worked as it’s supposed to…
29 Apr 2024
DeltaV Spectral PAT for Life Sciences Podcast
Jim Cahill
Process Analytical Technology, or PAT , was introduced by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration back in 2004. The purpose of this guidance was: …to describe a regulatory framework (Process Analytical Technology, (PAT) that will encourage the voluntary development and implementation of innovative pharmaceutical development, manufacturing, and quality assurance. Raman spectrometers perform spectral analysis to enable…
17 Apr 2024
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