Avid Solutions, Inc. Q1 2024 Newsletter
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 […]
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
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 […]
Life Sciences Specialty Pharmaceutical Case Study
Life Sciences How one Specialty Pharmaceutical Company reduced risk and improved data integrity 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 […]
When The Lights Go Out
Customer Profile: A pharmaceutical plant producing anti-infective treatments against serious and often life-threatening infections. Background: During extreme weather, this facility experienced a power failure that started on Friday and carried into Saturday causing their control systems to be unresponsive. When the plant’s generator failed, logs revealed that their systems did not recover, and their access […]
CESMII Smart Manufacturing Innovation Platform CTP R1
A Vision for the CESMII Smart Manufacturing Innovation Platform
