VergeIO vs. VMWARE: A Smart Choice for Small Businesses

VergeIO vs VMware: The Smart Choice for Small Business Verge.io The global virtualization and cloud infrastructure market is projected to exceed $225 billion by 2029 (Allied Market Research, 2023). For small businesses, this makes choosing a VMware alternative more important than ever. At first glance, many alternatives seem to differ only in licensing costs—especially after […]

Saved! Avid Delivers a Robust Disaster Recovery Solution

When The Lights Go Out

Customer Profile:   A pharmaceutical plant producing anti-infective treatments against serious and often life-threatening infections.   Background:   The client’s facility experienced a power failure. It started on a weekend resulting in the control systems being unresponsive. Log files showed that the systems did not recover. When one of the three servers would not respond […]

Heroes in Industry: What EECO is All About

What EECO is All About

  Heroes that keep America running. People and ideas are how America remains the most sustainable engine of innovation in the world.   This EECO podcast listens to advice and insights from some of the best minds in industry.   Many of our guests served their country.  Today’s guest is no exception.    After serving in the US […]

Secure Operation! A Control System with Fail-Safe Backup

A Truly Batch-Ready System with a Fail-Safe Backup Plan

Creating and implementing a batch system that operators can run manually if the batch system is unavailableBackground Avid gets a lot of these requests! A producer of specialty chemicals contacted Avid to design and deliver an Emerson Delta V control system. This system needed to provide automated batch processing capabilities. The challenge was to design […]

Failed Data Integrity Audits are Painful. Avid can Help!

Aseptic Production Facility Capacity Expansion

Background Our client, a multi-billion-dollar specialty pharmaceutical company, has been providing high-quality products to a large portfolio for over 150 years. They observed a steady decline in production levels and were looking to their historized data to diagnose the issue. However, they quickly realized that they only had 90 days of historized data. This duration […]

Effective MES Production Process Whitepaper

Effective MES Production Process Whitepaper

STOP STRUGGLING Deliver ROI through the Production Process with an Effective MES By Jeff Miller and Brian BriggsAvid Solutions, Inc Executive Summary Operations leaders continue to be frustrated by challenges related to departmental collaboration, supply and demand chain coordination, and disparate systems and data sources. Manufacturing execution systems (MES) address these challenges by bridging the […]

Greenfield site for Oncology medicines

Greenfield site for Oncology medicines

Context: Greenfield site for Oncology medicines in a parenteral format supporting commercial and clinical operations Pain: New facility with new staff and new unit operations. Getting production up and running in a timely manner while minimizing the possibilities for human error based on inattention to detail or inexperience with the process. Solution: An integrated platform […]