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Modular Plug and Play, MTP Will Enable More Flexible Life Sciences Manufacturing

Jim Cahill

Modular facilities are a key enabler of speed to market in life sciences. As organizations try to bring new therapies to market faster, those therapies require a wide variety of equipment—many of which are new to the process. These new machines must not only work together, but also must integrate seamlessly with existing process equipment and systems to keep production nimble. In the recent Emerson Exchange Virtual…
- 3 Mar 2021
Digital Transformation Helps Moderna Safely Deliver COVID-19 Vaccine in Record Time

Jim Cahill

A common theme across the Emerson Exchange Virtual Series has been the way software and digital technologies have helped us all deal with an unexpected and unprecedented pandemic. Wherever there is adversity, there are also innovators who step up to the challenge of delivering solutions to critical problems. In the February keynote address, Speed to Market, Jim Nyquist , chairman of Emerson’s systems and software business…
- 12 Feb 2021
Precision Flow for Laboratory Instruments

Jim Cahill

So, your doctor has ordered a blood or other bodily fluid sample, or you’ve taken a COVID-19 test. What happens to these samples next? In a short 3:11 video, Medical Moment | Clinical Laboratory Instruments | ASCO , Emerson’s Jim Perry and Tony Gaglio address this question and discuss the typical challenges clinical laboratory instruments manufacturers face and how Emerson’s engineers and customized fluid control solutions…
- 10 Feb 2021
Digitalizing and Automating Review by Exception

Jim Cahill

Review by exception recordkeeping for pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical producers collects the critical process exceptions during production runs. Good automated manufacturing practice (GAMP) approach for these electronic production records are: …processes are maintained within defined tolerances, data & events are recorded; process data is monitored at appropriate intervals, alerts and alarms are generated when…
- 18 Jan 2021
Welcome to Emerson Automation Experts Podcasts

Jim Cahill

Visit our podcast subscription page to subscribe with your favorite podcast player. The post Welcome to Emerson Automation Experts Podcasts appeared first on the Emerson Automation Experts blog.
- 1 Jan 2021
Artificial Intelligence in Vaccine Manufacturing

Jim Cahill

Recently vaccines have become available to help in putting the COVID-19 pandemic behind us. Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies were used in the race to develop these vaccines. In a Jersey’s Best article, Powerful AI technology is changing the way N.J. operates, for the better , Emerson’s Dennis Belanger explains how AI is used: …as a monitoring tool to understand the condition of eggs that are often used to…
- 23 Dec 2020
Single-Use Pressure Transmitter Receives Pharma Innovation Award

Jim Cahill

The annual Pharma Innovation Awards , selected by the editors and reviewers of Pharma Manufacturing , recognize leaders in pharmaceutical equipment and technology for the potential value and innovation they bring to the pharma industry. The Rosemount 550PT Pressure Transmitter was among one of these recently awarded technologies, acknowledged for filling the need for instrumentation technology designed specifically for…
- 7 Dec 2020
Reliable and Stable Bioprocessing Single-Use Sensors

Jim Cahill

In an Emerson Exchange Americas Virtual Series presentation, Validating Single-Use Sensor Performance and Integration with Bioreactors, Emerson’s Brandon Haschke highlighted these technologies. Here is the presentation abstract: Single-use technologies are a rapidly growing sector of life sciences manufacturing. These technologies reduce costs in manufacturing and increase a manufacturing facility’s flexibility, allowing…
- 1 Dec 2020
Digital Transformation to Fast-Track Vaccine Development

Jim Cahill

Have you wondered how some of the leading pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturers have developed and tested their COVID-19 vaccine candidates in record time? In a Pharma Manufacturing article, The new requirement to fast-track vaccines , Emerson group president for the Systems and Software business, Jim Nyquist , shares ways in which these feats were accomplished. A digital transformation was needed to dramatically…
- 18 Nov 2020
Medical Device Precise Pressure and Flow Control

Jim Cahill

Many medical devices require precise pressures and flow rates. One example application is for ventilators—something that we all became very familiar with in this COVID pandemic era., In a Medical Product Outsourcing article, Proportional Valves in Medical Devices , Emerson’s Paul Gant describes how proportional pressure control valves help to meet the stringent requirements for medical devices including: Anesthesia…
- 5 Nov 2020
Improving Product and Process Development in Life Sciences

Jim Cahill

“Driving the Future of Pharma” is the theme for next week’s fully digital 2020 ISPE Annual Meeting and Expo . The focus for the meeting is: …on steering the future of pharmaceutical science and manufacturing toward a more global, synchronized, and quality-driven industry. Emerson’s Michalle Adkins will be discussing villains and heroes in knowledge management . Michalle’s poster presentation addresses the question…
- 30 Oct 2020
Simplifying Pneumatic Valve Installations

Jim Cahill

Biopharmaceutical manufacturers seek ways to more quickly and efficiently scale up their operations as well as maintain quality control processes when bringing new products to market. Automation is one place to help drive these improvements. Emerson’s Mukta Sharma alerted me to a whitepaper, How to Simplify Your Pneumatic Valve Installation to Improve Your Drug Manufacturing Operation , which highlights the critical…
- 16 Oct 2020
Emerson technologies helping world meet urgent need for ventilators

Jim Cahill

Even before the critical global demand caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the twin challenges of a worldwide aging population and associated lung disease had led to an increased need for ventilators. However, the Covid-19 crisis has heightened the urgent demand for ventilators to extraordinary levels, putting intense pressure on the production capabilities of medical equipment manufacturers. The simple purpose of…
- 23 Sep 2020
Building Digital Transformation, One Step at a Time

Jim Cahill

In a Flow Control magazine article, Seven Digital Transformation Myths Exposed, Emerson’s Brian Joe offers advice on starting a digital transformation program. When we talk to companies about digital transformation, especially companies that have yet to launch a program, we frequently hear two kinds of responses representing two extremes. Either they don’t think the technologies work, or they have inflated expectations…
- 31 Aug 2020
Accelerate Technology Transfer through the Product Development Pipeline

Jim Cahill

In this age of rapid races for vaccines and therapeutics to battle the Coronavirus, there is even greater focus on the technology transfer process through the product development pipeline to commercial production. Emerson’s Michalle Adkins and Ron Rossbach will host a webinar on reducing time to market for a new therapies—a key opportunity for pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturers. This webinar will take…
- 11 Aug 2020
Choosing Temperature Instrumentation Should Begin with Understanding the Process

Jim Cahill

In a Process Heating magazine article titled Questions to Ask About Temperature Measurement Applications , Emerson’s Sarah Kendrick helps engineers work through the critical temperature application design process. Imagine this: One of your process engineers comes to you, points to a P&ID and says, “We need a new process temperature measurement right here. Take care of it.” What is the first thing you need to know to ensure…
- 8 Aug 2020
Optimizing Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Processes

Jim Cahill

Optimizing both continuous and batch-based processes have their unique challenges. I caught up with Emerson’s Alan Johnston who shared with me how technology advances in real-time modeling, adaptive scheduling and predictive maintenance are enabling successes in optimization for biopharmaceutical manufacturers who may have a combination of both types of processes in their operations. The performance objectives are typically…
- 14 Jul 2020
Life Sciences Operational Performance Improvement Webinar Series

Jim Cahill

With events across our industry still on Coronavirus hiatus, we’re fully into webinar season as a replacement. For pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturers, we have a Life Sciences.NOW webinar series . This series includes eight interactive discussions on digital plant technologies and will provide direction and updates on key manufacturing operation initiatives to improve operational performance, deliver…
- 16 Jun 2020
BioPhorum Collaboration for Improving Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing

Jim Cahill

Let’s recognize the tremendous efforts by people in the Life Sciences industry racing for solutions to COVID-19 Coronavirus treatments and vaccines. In an unprecedented way, many are scaling up for full production while still in the early phases of development. We’re all hoping that one or several treatments will work in helping wind down this challenging era. Over the years, pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturers…
- 22 May 2020
Oral Solid Drug Continuous Manufacturing

Jim Cahill

With the global focus around the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic, manufacturers in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries have been racing to find both treatments and preventive vaccines. Batch processing has been the historical method of production for these Life Science companies. Continuous processing, which holds the promise of greater development and production flexibility, has continued to become a reality. …
- 6 May 2020
BioPhorum Best Practices on Knowledge Management

Jim Cahill

Michalle Adkins The BioPhorum organization was formed in 2004 with the mission, “…to create environments where the global biopharmaceutical industry can collaborate and accelerate its rate of progress, for the benefit of all.” Emerson’s Michalle Adkins alerted me to the release of a new BioPhorum Knowledge Management white paper, A Test Case in CMC Business Processes from Late-Stage Development to Commercial Manufacturing…
- 30 Mar 2020
Improving CAR-T Therapeutical Production

Jim Cahill

Alan Johnston With the world’s attention focused on the Coronavirus, I wanted to focus on some of the amazing therapies being developed in the Life Sciences industry. I caught up with Emerson’s Alan Johnston who shared a presentation he gave at the Simposio AFI last year. He discussed gene therapy, cell therapy and CAR-T which combines both. These have the goal to treat disease by changing the blueprint to our body…
- 26 Mar 2020
Accelerating the Development and Production of Therapeutics

Jim Cahill

The focus of the world right now is on how to defeat the Coronavirus and return to more normal times. Manufacturers in the Life Sciences industry are racing at a breakneck pace to develop vaccines and treatments. Automation, analytics play a large role in both the development process for new therapies and ongoing optimized production. I’ve shared many of the ways how in blog posts in the Life Sciences & Medical category…
- 20 Mar 2020
Biopharmaceutical Models in Development and Production

Jim Cahill

Bob Lenich Models of manufacturing and production processes can provide value through the lifecycle of these facilities, from up front design through ongoing personnel training and optimization. One quick example is the simulation used to test out the control strategies before commissioning the control system. In a BioPharm International article, Biopharma modeling, now and five years from now , Emerson’s Bob Lenich…
- 11 Mar 2020
Real-Time Adaptive Scheduling in Life Science Manufacturing

Jim Cahill

Pharmaceutical & Biopharmaceutical manufacturers face the continued challenge of how to achieve maximum capacity in their facilities. Often a facility does not achieve maximum design capacity due to hidden operational bottlenecks. One way to drive performance gains is to identify the causes behind this situation and operate as close to design specifications as is possible. At the Biomanufacturing World Summit, Emerson…
- 10 Mar 2020