Saved! Avid Delivers a Robust Disaster Recovery Solution
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 […]
Failed Data Integrity Audits are Painful. Avid can Help!
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 […]
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 […]
Outcome-Based Engineering Case Study
The Optimization of Evaporators Background Our client was coping with a daunting combination of performance issues with their multiple evaporators: throughput issues, energy costs, and product quality. In response, we completed an Outcome-Based Engineering (OBE) field study of an evaporator and determined several operational improvement opportunities. The OBE study determined that adding instrumentation, a variable […]
Developing an integrated tracking and control system for a new drug manufacturing plant.
Background A major pharmaceutical company built a facility in Research Triangle Park, NC to manufacture and package a new cancer drug. The drug is produced from a highly potent compound on an aseptic filling line using isolator technology. Avid Solutions was given the job of implementing a control system to track and coordinate all the […]