The Digital Transformation Of Catalent's Process Development Laboratory

Catalent, a leading contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), excels in aiding pharmaceutical, biotech, and consumer health partners to enhance product development, launch, and full life-cycle supply for patients worldwide. With more than 50 sites worldwide, Catalent’s flexible manufacturing platforms produce over 70 billion doses of nearly 7,000 products for more than 1,000 customers annually.

Process development (PD) laboratories face unique challenges due to the highly varied equipment and often poorly supported data connectors. For Catalent, commercial laboratory data platforms with pre-built connectors for lab equipment were cost-ineffective and did not align with the company's unified namespace (UNS) strategy. Additionally, modeling thousands of machine tags for all PD assets utilizing IIoT platforms was time-consuming and inefficient. To scale this process, Catalent partnered with HighByte. Continue reading to discover the solution to Catalent's PD laboratory challenges that enabled the company to create a data model for its bioreactors, resulting in easily contextualized bioreactor data, time savings in manual tasks, and the ability to share insights with customers in real time.