Honeywell’s Manufacturing Excellence Platform will revolutionise the digital transformation of the life sciences industry
The Manufacturing Excellence Platform (MEP) is the latest offering from Honeywell that will expand the company’s future forward technologies, bringing innovation to life sciences manufacturing with a modular, integrated platform to digitize, orchestrate, and optimize production.
What is the Manufacturing Excellence Platform?
The Manufacturing Excellence Platform provides real-time end-to-end production visualization and dashboards for multiple user roles from operators to management, process unit timelines, detailed equipment status, and trends of critical process parameters.
The Manufacturing Excellence Platform, built for life sciences applications, puts actionable information in context in one interface.
The solution digitizes paper-based batch records, work instructions, and logbooks to ensure consistent compliance with standard operating procedures. Visibility of batch progress and alerts on critical process parameters enable users to respond quickly if batches start trending toward excursion beyond golden batch or expected limits, which saves batches and improves quality.
By significantly reducing review process time, actions, and signatures, users in multiple roles achieve faster batch releases. Batch history and reports support closed-loop continuous improvement.
Seamless integration across platforms
The Manufacturing Excellence Platform allows seamless integration across various platforms. For example, it is compatible with SAP® and other enterprise resource planning solutions. The MEP also integrates seamlessly with Honeywell’s Sparta TrackWise® quality management system, Experion distributed control systems and 3rd party systems at all levels of the manufacturing hierarchy.
But what does this actually mean for the life sciences industry?
It allows unprecedented interoperability, transparency, and real-time insights to maximize production efficiency, quality, and compliance.
Shawn Opatka, VP and GM of Life Sciences at Honeywell Process Solutions explains: “This new platform will enable life sciences manufacturers to manage their production in one place. The platform can be deployed quickly and easily, in a modular approach, and more capabilities can be added as organizations advance on their journey.”
The solution draws on Honeywell’s proven expertise in the following:
- Process control
- SCADA
- batch historian technologies
It also encompasses manufacturing execution systems to support life sciences manufacturers in their path to digitalization.
The Honeywell Manufacturing Excellence Platform is built for life sciences pharmaceutical segments ranging from Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) manufacturers and Contract Drug Manufacturing Operations (CDMO) to Biologics and Cell & Gene Therapy producers in various stages of product development, from clinical trials to commercialization.
“With this integrated software solution, we continue to expand our capabilities and bring to market a solution that takes the industry forward, allowing for greater production speed, reliability and the highest levels of product quality and safety,” concludes Shawn.
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