article thumbnail

Using Sensors & IoT for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

ATS

Share Pharmaceutical manufacturing operations are challenging environments for asset maintenance. Availability of production machinery and ancillary services such as HVAC and utilities are critical to controlling costs, but stringent regulatory requirements constrain how work is done. Referencing the Industry 4.0

article thumbnail

Taking a different approach to DCS upgrades

Control Engineering

Today, pharmaceutical production plants must embrace more flexible production and faster process implementation to reduce time to market for new product developments. Today, pharmaceutical production plants must embrace more flexible production and faster process implementation to reduce time to market for new product developments.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

What is High-Tech Manufacturing?

ATS

Pharmaceuticals : Product, much of which is made in high volumes, must be extremely consistent and free from contamination. High-tech manufacturing considerations Process and technology mastery is just the price of admission to the high-tech manufacturing world.

article thumbnail

IMTS / Hannover Messe Chicago Recap

Gary Mintchell

. • ABB helps businesses of all sizes embrace the flexibility afforded by robotics to efficiently adapt production to satisfy their customer’s most pressing needs, especially as reshoring becomes a prominent means to address ongoing supply chain backlogs. For more information.

article thumbnail

SCADA upgrade without downtime: Golden project results

Control Engineering

Hall, discusses gold mine SCADA modernization and COVID-19 vaccination process controls. In addition, a COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer sought to quickly develop the process controls for automating its production system. Pharmaceutical manufacturing: COVID-19 vaccine process controls.

article thumbnail

Food & Beverage Condition Monitoring & Predictive Maintenance

ATS

Achieving this requires excellent process control, especially over variables such as heating and cooling. Using predictive maintenance to improve food & beverage supply chain For food and beverage manufacturers , the opportunity to anticipate potential points of failure goes beyond the production machinery.

article thumbnail

How a collaborative approach is driving Ireland from Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0

Control Engineering

It can help manufacturers improve nearly any aspect of operations and supply chain in a way that’s unique to their needs. Initially focused on traditional pharmaceutical manufacturing, the consortium seeks to accelerate manufacturing transformation in Ireland through ecosystem collaboration. is that it’s an open-ended concept.