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A pharmaceutical industry is constantly tasked with discovering, developing, and manufacturing drugs for the benefit of mankind. Given the current situation, it has become a challenge for pharmaceutical giants to develop a possible vaccine to combat COVID-19. With high expectations for results, smart manufacturing is the key to success. Smart manufacturing refers to process automation that easily improves discrete, individual subprocesses. In the absence of an ERP, drug manufacturing involves complex individual sub-processes that are difficult to optimize.
Let us discuss the four scenarios that a smart integrated manufacturing process can enable for a Pharmaceutical Industry!
Staying connected
Staying connected is the most important aspect and requirement of any industry. The underlying processes, materials, and ingredients must be linked in order to generate data detailing for real-time decisions. Smart sensors are typically installed on assets, which continuously pull data sets from sources. This ensures that data is always up to date and reflects current conditions. Users benefit from a holistic view of supply chain activities tracing overall efficiency through integrated systems from operations to business systems and suppliers to customers. It can ensure increased efficiency in the aftermath of a pandemic, when time is of the essence.
Being Optimized
To achieve the best medicine relative to a set of prioritized constraints, drug composition necessitates a precise set of formulas. With automated workflows, asset synchronization, improved tracking and scheduling, and optimized energy consumption, smart manufacturing maximizes factors such as productivity, strength, reliability, and efficiency. It also reduces the possibility of hazardous medical waste because each step is precisely measured, increasing optimization.
Greater Transparency
A smart Pharma manufacturing industry can visualize data in real time. Data collected from various sources, such as finished or in-progress stages, can be converted into actionable insights to estimate costs, deliverables, production, raw materials, and so on. A transparent system improves visibility across departments by incorporating tools like role-based views, real-time alerts and notifications, and real-time tracking and monitoring.
Enduring Proactivity
Proactivity in the pharmaceutical industry can foresee problems before they occur. Regarding the current COVID-19 pandemic, drug manufacturing industries are under pressure to produce a drug as soon as possible. Proactivity will aid in the identification of flaws, the restocking and replenishment of inventory items, the identification, prediction, and resolution of quality issues, and the monitoring of safety and maintenance. It will increase the uptime and yield of critical drugs.
Originally published by Greytrix Africa Ltd.
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