From consulting to landing help life science industry enterprises to achieve lean and efficient

Data show that China is currently in the “deep aging” stage, and by 2035, the population over 65 years old will exceed 20%, entering the “super aging” stage. The increase in the elderly population is bound to lead to a rising demand for medicine. In this context, enterprises in the life science industry need to enhance their competitiveness and improve production efficiency to meet the growing needs of people.

Lean production is an effective way for life science industry to improve efficiency and maintain market competitive advantage. The application of lean production is not only limited to drug production, but also includes drug research and development, production planning, quality control, inventory management and many other aspects. Through lean manufacturing methods, pharmaceutical companies can more accurately control the quality and cost of the production process, reduce waste and defective products in the process, better plan production plans, manage inventory, and carry out research and innovation more efficiently.

Schneider Electric provides lean manufacturing solutions for life science industry companies from consulting to landing, helping companies improve operational efficiency. Schneider Electric’s Lean consulting integrates advanced lean concepts and methods into the “Schneider Electric Performance System”, forming six core lean production methodologies, including project standardization management flow, master planned production, warehouse design, logistics and material control MPH, production line design and timely management, to guide plant planning and optimize the entire business process.

How to ensure safe and compliant production in the life sciences industry?

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The ancient saying “no rules can not be square”, with quality and safety compliance as the main driving factor, is a significant feature of the life science industry. Recently, the State Food and Drug Administration issued the “Measures for the Administration of Drug Standards” to further standardize and strengthen the management of drug standards, ensure drug safety, effectiveness and quality control, and promote the high-quality development of drugs. In addition, with the landing of the new medical reform policy, GMP(drug production management practice) certification has become a normal supervision, drug consistency evaluation has become a mandatory requirement of the industry, and it is imperative for industry enterprises to strengthen the development of safety compliance.

How to make life science industry production more safe and compliant? Schneider Electric’s complete solution of integrated energy management and automation helps companies better meet GMP compliance inspections, reduce manual intervention bias, and improve validation efficiency and data management compliance. Ensure the high availability of pharmaceutical plant utilities and production line facilities, reduce the risk of batch scrapping and drug recall, and ensure the normal and worry-free operation of production.

Building management and environmental monitoring system: Building management system BMS through the control of industrial air conditioning units, to achieve a stable control of the entire pharmaceutical factory storage environment and drug production environment. The EMS monitors the critical production area and equipment environment, and monitors the temperature, humidity, and pressure difference of the drug production area in real time to achieve data integrity of the production environment record.
Data acquisition system: can quickly collect all kinds of external system data in the pharmaceutical production process, and through the standard alarm and curve control, quickly monitor all production and public engineering systems, to help pharmaceutical companies quickly grasp the global production information.
Process control system and Batch, batch and recipe management, including distributed control system EcoStruxure Foxboro DCS, process automation system PAS, BATCH control system BATCH, etc., in addition to ensuring data integrity and traceability, but also to meet the enterprise’s customized product needs, Achieve product data integrity and traceability.
Energy management system: Use Schneider Electric’s EMS+ energy management platform to control the energy system of the production base and reduce energy consumption; Integrate all facility subsystems to secure a clean room environment, reduce equipment failures and maintenance and operating costs.
Taking Biomerieux as an example, Schneider Electric provided a complete set of power distribution, automation and information solutions for the construction of its Suzhou base, including building management and environmental monitoring system BMS&EMS, PO power monitoring system, and production process automation system PAS based on the AVEVA system platform. With more advanced management and control technology, more efficient energy efficiency strategies, promote automation and improve users’ management of environmental and production data, improve efficiency and productivity, and help achieve sustainable development goals, and strive to create a model for the biopharmaceutical industry.