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Using Operational Excellence Techniques to Understand and Solve Business Problems

Posted in Life Sciences, Operations Management on Wednesday, February 15th, 2012. 3 comments so far
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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 on the Life Sciences industry team, shared details of an Operational Excellence (OE) program that she and her fellow consultants have developed. She notes [...]

Managing the Pharmaceutical and Biotech Technology Transfer Process

Posted in Life Sciences, Operations Management on Wednesday, February 1st, 2012. No comments yet
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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 as being a key component of gaining competitive advantage for corporations, industry and for individual nations. The rapidly changing commercial [...]

Faster Product Releases with PAT Methods in Production Recipes

Posted in Life Sciences, Operations Management on Thursday, January 26th, 2012. No comments yet
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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, gave a presentation, Incorporating PAT Methods into Production Recipes for Real Time Release. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration defines Process Analytical [...]

Continuous Process Verification per FDA Process Validation Guidance

Posted in Life Sciences, Operations Management on Thursday, January 19th, 2012. 2 comments so far
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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 industry team. Heather shared key elements from this FDA process validation guidance document and how [...]

Chemical Manufacturing Moving to Ends of the Spectrum

Posted in Chemical, Operations Management on Tuesday, July 12th, 2011. One comment so far
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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 will be September 19-21 in York in the United Kingdom. The event is described: It is well understood [...]

Live John Berra WBF Keynote – Small Victories Mean Big Improvements

Posted in Operations Management, Process Optimization on Monday, May 23rd, 2011. No comments yet
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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 presentation, Sharpening the Tools – Small Victories Mean Big Improvements. Here’s the abstract: This keynote address will touch [...]

How We Manage Our Companies

Posted in Operations Management, Safety on Thursday, April 7th, 2011. One comment so far
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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 our organizations in the process industries to cope with the ever-growing complexity of: …a whiplash economy, technological disruptions, [...]

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Planning an Electronic Document Management Project

Posted in Life Sciences, Operations Management on Monday, March 28th, 2011. No comments yet
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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 customers, and Tim had more to share on this story. The New England Controls team [...]

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Shrinking Batch Record Creation Time and Document Management Complexity

Posted in Bioprocess, Life Sciences, Operations Management on Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011. No comments yet
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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 volumes for this highly specialized family of proteins, the batch production process is composed of manual procedures and [...]

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Getting Plant Alarms under Control

Posted in Alarm Management, Operations Management on Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010. No comments yet
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I discovered this post yesterday, Alarming Links & Resources from the Harold in Control blog. It included a link to a DeltaV whitepaper on Alarm Rationalization. It also pointed to a LinkedIn discussion in the Alarm Management group, Alarm Rationalisation Success Stories You Can Share? (you must be a member of this LinkedIn group to [...]

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