Werum IT Solutions Advances Standardized Track & Trace Solutions For Packaging Serialization In The Pharmaceutical Industry

PAS-X Track & Trace provides adapters to OCS equipment; Werum is actively engaged in developing the Open Serialization Communication Standard (Open-SCS)

Werum IT Solutions is expanding its integrating role in the field of packaging serialization and aggregation, and is extending its independent Track & Trace solution by a connection to OCS Checkweighers equipment. Now, PAS-X Track & Trace not only provides an adapter to OCS, but to all leading line controllers such as Antares Vision, Laetus, Optel Vision, Seidenader Maschinenbau, Systech, and Uhlmann.

“As a leading supplier of manufacturing IT solutions for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries, we also actively participate in the Open-SCS Working Group,” said Jürgen Laskowski, Senior Head of Global Projects III, Werum IT Solutions GmbH. “Our working group is a partner of the OPC Foundation. Our aim is to develop an open standard comprising the complete business transaction for the data exchange in packaging serialization in the healthcare industry.”

With PAS-X Track & Trace, Werum offers a solution for the pharmaceutical industry to help comply with anti-counterfeiting requirements for medical drugs. It provides serialization and aggregation functionality for packaging processes, and integrates the Enterprise Resource Planning and Global Repository with the shop floor packaging equipment and line controllers. In contrast to the multi-line managers of the equipment suppliers, PAS-X Track & Trace comprises a database to store all serialization data so that a connection to a global external repository is not required. In particular, this approach enables serialization tree management in the entire manufacturing area, such as repackaging and rework. PAS-X Track & Trace is a smart option to get started with Werum’s manufacturing IT solutions, and can easily be extended to become the PAS-X Packaging Solution or the PAS-X Manufacturing Execution System (MES).

About Werum IT Solutions
Werum IT Solutions is the internationally leading supplier of manufacturing execution systems (MES) and manufacturing IT solutions for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries. Its out-of-the-box software product PAS-X is used by 17 of the world’s top 30 pharmaceutical and biotech companies and in about 800 installations. Founded in 1969, the IT company employs about 420 people at its headquarters in Lüneburg, Germany, and at nine other locations in Germany, France, Switzerland, the United States, Japan, and Singapore.

Werum is part of Medipak Systems, the Pharma Systems business area of the international Körber technology group. Körber unites more than 11,000 professionals in about 50 industry-leading companies, achieving annual earnings of more than two billion euros. As a Medipak Systems company, Werum provides integrated IT solutions for all phases of pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical production – including process development, commercial production, and packaging as well as track & trace serialization. For more information, visit www.pas-x.com.