Turning Data Into Information

As biopharmaceutical manufacturing has evolved from small-scale lab production in small flasks to massive commercial production in deep-tank bioreactors, an avalanche of production data has evolved to support it. From individual unit operation skids to distributed control systems and enterprise resource planning tools, biomanufacturing today is buried by the sheer quantity of data coming in from the manufacturing floor.

The challenge is to see this data in a way that allows its manipulation and use by as many groups as possible, and to turn the data into information that can be used to understand current as well as future system states. In this whitepaper, we discuss ways of integrating data from a number of disparate sources, and how to turn this data into a comprehensive information model that will be of value to the whole organization.