A leader from pharmaceutical firm Astellas discusses how the company has put to use a discovery platform that combines human expertise, AI, and robotics.
An expert from Rockwell Automation explains how integrating flexibility, using advanced technology, can help pharma manufacturing operations weather a storm.
Leaders from some of the industry’s most notable companies are working together to streamline and automate IDMP workflow and come up with various standards.
A leader from the IT consulting company makes the case for digitization and explains the potenial benefits of bringing an operation into the 21st century.
According to the market intelligence firm, automation appeals to drug packaging and manufacturing firms, thanks to their productivity-boosting potential.
Using automated chain-of-custody systems can save study sponsors and CROs a minimum of $1.3m per clinical trial in operating costs, according to a recent report from Almac.
Robotics and automation will help improve the clunky and expensive clinical trial process, says Icon CEO – as the company continues to evaluate potential opportunities to improve efficiency.
Hackers trying to steal drug formulae for counterfeiters can wreak havoc says an IT expert advocating stronger security for networked pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities.
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Cell therapy development and production will not be sustainable unless there is a vendor-led shift to automated processes, said experts in Brussels yesterday.
While pharma is increasing use of automation and data integration tools in process development and manufacturing, it lags behind in electronic documentation of quality control, according to Lonza Biologics QC director Jessica Jean.
Schenck Accurate, Malvern, PSL and Sturtevant have teamed up to create a “unique” new turnkey isolated milling suite which they say will wipe out unnecessary waiting times for high potency (HP) drug processing.
Industrial automation specialist Emerson Process Management has won the contract to help Swiss life sciences group Lonza design its new biopharmaceuticals plant in Singapore.
UK-based automation expert, Astech Projects, has been signed up to assist a ‘top 5 pharmaceutical company’ just months after launching its new automation maintenance service.
A new modular approach to automating laboratory techniques could
ease the process of scaling small-scale manual methods to
high-volume commercial production.
Artel has introduced a new feature for its Multichannel
Verification System (MVS), which includes an automation function
that allows for time savings and reducing human error.
Agilent has signed a definitive agreement to acquire automation
expert Velocity11 for an undisclosed amount to enable it to speed
up drug discovery and genomics research.
Symyx Technologies has released a machine designed to automate the
sample preparation stage of active pharmaceutical ingredient (API)
solubility experiments, saving researchers valuable time.
Instrumentation supplier TTP LabTech has just launched a new
business aimed at providing integrated custom automation systems to
the pharmaceutical industry.
Instrumentation provider ABgene has launched the first automated
device for the opening and closing of screw caps on sample tubes
that it claims is three times faster than the manual method.
Technology firm Symyx has acquired Autodose, a maker of precision
powder-dispensing equipment, as it seeks to develop the next
generation of high-throughput benchtop automation systems.
Liquid handling specialists Anachem has made available a recycling
programme for the waste polypropylene racks produced by its new
range of high quality robotic tips designed to fit Tecan, Qiagen,
Beckman or Gilson Robotic Platforms.
Pharmaceutical companies looking to eliminate manual handling of
samples to enhance productivity may want to look at Genevac's new
automated centrifugal evaporators.
Velocity11 make available a benchtop microplate handling system
that claims to provide the features and flexibility of much larger
and more expensive automation platforms.
Hamilton launches two new products, which are set to aid the
facilitation of automation in laboratories, placing tedious and
time-consuming processes in the hands of cutting edge and
cost-effective technology for automation.
Batch control systems are becoming increasingly used by the
pharmaceutical and food industries as they increasingly rely on
automation to improve productivity and product quality.
The Lab Automation Europe show held earlier this week saw Thermo
unveil a number of new products, including a new spectral scanner
that can handle all wavelengths, without needing filters, and has
an integrated dispenser for reagents.
Emerson Process Management has formed an alliance with GE
Healthcare aimed at providing faster, simpler and more
cost-efficient solutions for protein purification - the most
critical operation in manufacturing of biotech medicines.
Freeman Technology is gearing up to launch the first in a new range
of accessories for its FT4 powder rheometer that are designed to
bring it into the age of industrial automation.
Labtronics has launched the latest addition to its Nexxis LAB suite
of products, promising complete automation to a whole host of
manual procedures as well as security features that make it ideally
suited to the controlled pharmaceutical...
Swiss life sciences company Tecan has launched the Freedom EVO 75,
a compact laboratory liquid handling system for medium throughput
applications which represents another addition to the EVO family
and its range of liquid handling...
UK laboratory equipment specialist Lab-Plant says it can bring
process automation within the reach of the majority of
laboratories, pilot plants and mini-production facilities with the
launch of its Lab Manager process control computer...
Germany's Azo has developed a new automated system for dosing
additives and minor ingredients in the pharmaceutical production
process that should allow companies to make cost savings.
Colony counting and picking are well-recognised as one of the most
boring, repetitive and error-prone jobs in the lab, and there has
been a strong desire to automate the process.
The Automation Partnership (TAP), a company specialising in the
application of robotics to pharmaceutical drug discovery and
production, has named a new chief executive to succeed Richard
Archer, who is stepping down in February.
A conference on batch process automation and asset management in
the pharmaceutical industry is scheduled to take place in Cork,
Ireland, on 22-23 October.
Invensys APV, a supplier of process equipment to the pharmaceutical
industry, will demonstrate its new technologies at the upcoming
Achema 2003 exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany.
Emerson Process Management has received a multi-year contract from
Voridian, a division of Eastman Chemical, to upgrade automation
systems at Voridian's polyethylene terephthalate (PET) polymers
plants in Columbia and in Cosoleacaque,...
