Improving Process Efficiency And Business Performance In Life Sciences Plants

Manufacturers in life sciences face a range of challenges, such as globalization, an aging work force, cost and quality pressures, and regulatory requirements. To remain competitive, these companies are striving to optimize operations in order to accelerate project execution, new product introductions, and production changeovers, and to become more agile and achieve greater sustained business value.

However, chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturers are finding it increasingly difficult to meet these challenges using traditional manual systems to manage workflow, collaboration, and scheduling, as well as many parts of production operations. It's typical for planning departments to issue monthly production plans that are passed on manually to operations. Since manufacturing rarely goes according to plan, the operations staff is constantly juggling equipment, materials, personnel, and production lines to produce scheduled product volume.