Automation

Digitally enabled cryogenic cold chain technology can now deliver the raw materials needed to manufacture cellular therapies

As service operations have become more complex, and more critical to the enterprise bottom line, field service automation has evolved into robust, comprehensive offerings called full-service lifecycle management solutions. These solutions allow service to become critical to a company’s profitability and long-term value, not just a cost center. Simultaneously, a mega end disrupting manufacturers’ traditional CapEx business model is the growing demand for new “Product-as-a-Service” consumption models. This disruptive trend is forcing service organizations to re-think how they meet growing customer demands—such as a faster ROI—and how they increase revenue while maintaining a competitive posiin this new industrial revolution.

This case study details how Sherpa Clinical Packaging partnered with South Bay Therapeutics to craft the best clinical supply management strategies for their multiple, complex clinical trials.

Direction from a solution provider with expertise in forecasting, packaging, labeling and distribution along with services of an IRT provider solves drug shortage challenge.

Nuts, seeds, dried fruits and dozens of other fresh, bulk food products are fetching sky-high prices of late due to demand and supply issues caused by the drought in California. Consequently, this brings the need for reliable ways to maximize production while eliminating contaminants. This requires extra diligence, including the use of advanced inspection equipment to remove foreign objects. Gone are days of error prone human inspection or wasteful processes such as discarding partially clean products to avoid further inspection costs.

Payers need to choose between automated payment and accurate automated payment.

As technology continues to advance, managing and analyzing massive data sets just can’t be accomplished by humans alone. It requires huge amounts of memory and storage, as well as the high-speed processing power of the cloud. Machine learning is a process that applies advanced mathematical algorithms and powerful computing capabilities to quickly and efficiently analyze those data sets and identify patterns.

Today’s medical device and pharma industry assembly concepts can be complex. Here, Bill Welch, chief technology officer, Phillips-Medisize, outlines why, therefore, the company provides a comprehensive assembly concept, tailored to customers’ needs. Scalability begins with early DFM (design for manufacture) / DFA (design for assembly) philosophy integrated into the product development process.

As a manufacturing process, overmolding can provide excellent adhesion between different materials and eliminate the need to assemble materials by hand.

Since the hospital’s founding in 1983, Phoenix Children’s Hospital (PCH) has provided hope, healing, and the best health care for children across Arizona. Over 80 percent of pediatric subspecialists in the metropolitan area and 50 percent of pediatricians in Maricopa County are associated with PCH’s ambulatory and acute care network.

When Park City Water in Utah needed a new system for supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and human-machine interface (HMI), it picked the same solution chosen by its neighbor, Mountain Regional Water (MRW) District. Both MRW and Park City have seen significant improvements since switching from their previous SCADA systems to Ignition. MRW saves more than $400,000 per year on energy with greater control from Ignition. Park City saves the equivalent of one full-time employee by using Ignition to automate its reports to a state agency. 

Producers of edible oils and related by-products are best served by designing new processing plants and upgrading existing ones with highly integrated, data-driven digitalization technologies, which can help lower fixed costs to boost operating margins.