Rockwell adds EBR software to FactoryTalk
Helps pharma and biotech manufacturers reduce paper use
‘While traditional EBR applications present an electronic version of a paper batch record to all users, FactoryTalk Pharma Suite introduces a new paradigm,’ said Vladimir Preysman, chief strategist, Rockwell Software. ‘Innovation and time to market are the main drivers in the pharmaceutical industry today, and we designed FactoryTalk Pharma Suite to support exactly that. This product extends our traditional strength in large-scale pharma manufacturing to biotech and is well aligned with the latest industry direction – personalised medicine.’
In FactoryTalk Pharma Suite, recipes are modelled graphically and aligned with the S88 standard. Visual tools and intelligent search mechanisms help ensure that all information required for recipe design — such as material, equipment, recipe building blocks, or process parameters — can be accessed quickly and easily.
Recipes are assembled from re-usable parameterised building blocks representing standard functions such as adding material to a process or checking equipment against requirements.
The software also allows recipe authors to isolate and save sections of a recipe as custom building blocks. After focused tests and reviews, these building blocks can be re-used in new recipes. This accelerates recipe design, prevents errors, and enables incremental validation, resulting in faster deployment.
‘FactoryTalk Pharma Suite has been proven to be a flexible and agile MES platform that can be deployed in a short time,’ said Robert Fretz, head of process automation and MES at Roche. ‘Its built-in application development framework enables our engineers to install, configure and extend the system by themselves, which was one of the major decision criteria for FactoryTalk Pharma Suite when we were evaluating a material tracking and weighing system for our chemical production.’
FactoryTalk Pharma Suite is based on the FactoryTalk ProductionCentre platform proven in hundreds of installations across different industries and scales of deployments. It leverages a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Its object-oriented design makes it easier and faster to build, modify, and systematically deploy applications across multiple sites.
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