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Mistake Proofing Pharmaceutical Production and Documentation Processes
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...
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Efficiently Managing Globally Dispersed Clinical Trial Documentation
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...
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Interphex 2012 – Real-Time Release in Production Recipes
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...
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Visualizing and Analyzing Real-Time Batch Data
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...
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Managing the Software Development Lifecycle for Validated Processes
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....
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Aligning Stakeholders in Operations Management Projects
The ISA-95 (IEC 62264) Enterprise-Control System Integration (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5) international standard provides a model to help define the boundaries between the enterprise...
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Rolling Out Emerson’s Management System for Bulk-Liquids Terminals
Hi. It’s Chris Womack again, with another tidbit about terminals. If you haven’t seen it yet, an article in the July-August issue of Tank Storage magazine adds a little update about Emerson’s...
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Prototyping Key in Manufacturing Execution System Projects
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...
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Moving and properly accounting for the products in a terminal facility requires quite a bit of logistical support and reporting. In this 14:57 YouTube video, Syncade Logistics: Reducing Product...
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Oil and Petrochemical Terminal HSE Compliance
Brian Crandall Applications ConsultantLet’s close this work week with a look at tools to manage health, safety, and environmental (HSE) compliance in terminal facilities—also known as oil depots, tank...
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Successfully Automating Terminal Operations
July/August 2014 Tank Storage magazineMaking an operational step change in a production process involves a clear vision and people, processes and tools to execute the vision. A July/August 2014 Tank...
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RFID Tagging for Materials Movements
Some of the technologies making the Internet of Things (IoT) possible include WirelessHART, radio-frequency identification (RFID), near field communication, barcodes, QR codes and digital watermarking....
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Prototype Manufacturing Operations Management Projects
The ANSI/ISA-95 standard defines models for the information flows between the instrumentation and automation layers up to the enterprise information layers for process manufacturers and producers....
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Reducing Communications Problems during Shift Changeovers
Sources of unplanned downtime can be many including equipment failures and human error. For downtime resulting from operator interactions, one major source of errors is the communications breakdown...
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Conference Room Pilots to Generate Involvement in MES Projects
Author: Jonathan Lustri As a Life Sciences consultant, I get involved in many different aspects of MES [manufacturing execution system] projects. In a recent project, I helped define the project...
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Optimizing Life Sciences Processes by Improving Data Integration
Pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers face many economic and technical challenges including reduced prices and diminishing profits, rising research & development costs, increasing regulatory...
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Managing Coalbed Methane Wells Feeding LNG Plant
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities require careful pressure management on their incoming gas pipelines. In a recent LNG Industry article, Turn it Up (and Down), Emerson’s Michael Calvert describes...
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Niche-Buster Medicine Information Solutions
Author: Michalle Adkins We are seeing a trend in the life sciences industry moving away from blockbusters to niche busters, population based medicines and even to the extreme of personalized medicines....
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Deploying Syncade Manufacturing Execution System in a Non-English Language
Author: Jonathan Lustri I recently worked on a Syncade manufacturing execution system (MES) project where the system was deployed in Danish. Emerson executes all its projects with a global team and...
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Integrated Biometric Authentication in Electronic Records
How many of you have more passwords than you can possibly remember? Count me in with the affirmatives. Biometric authentication is one way to overcome this large and growing problem. For process...
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