11,000 Calibrations A Year, Made Mostly With Beamex Calibration Equipment

Eli Lilly and Company is one of the world's largest research-based pharmaceutical companies dedicated to creating and delivering innovative pharmaceutical health care solutions that enable people to live longer, healthier and more active lives. Lilly employs more than 44,000 people worldwide and markets its products in 143 countries. The Lilly plant in Speke, Liverpool is a bulk manufacturer of animal health, veterinary, and pharmaceutical products. Each area of manufacture has a control group, which is responsible for calibrating the instrumentation that controls manufacturing processes. The Speke plant is Lilly's largest European manufacturing plant.

The purpose of calibrations is to ensure that the plant is in control of their manufacturing processes, and that the calibrations performed there are documented and traceable to meet internationally recognised standards.

The situation
"We perform in excess of eleven thousand calibrations per annum across a wide range of instrumentation and control equipment", Derek Cross begins. Derek is Site Reliability Engineer at Lilly's Speke plant.

Calibrating process instruments is considered essential at the Speke plant. "Quality calibration is crucial in demonstrating that we are in control of our processes; it is a key requirement in ensuring the safety, identity, strength, purity and quality of all our products".