Pharmaceutical – More stories

Good for your health: Siemens products, solutions, and services make a contribution to faster, fitter production in the pharmaceutical and life science industries.

Integration Is Trumps

Thanks to an integrated automation solution based on Simatic PCS 7 and Simatic Batch, Fresenius Medical Care benefits from fully automated production.

Precision Filling

After the modernization of a filling machine with Simotion, GlaxoSmithKline benefits from higher availability and improved performance.

Time-to-Market Benchmark

Simatic technology helps set up a facility for manufacturing new active pharmaceutical ingredients in record time, ensuring future success in a business where time to market is critical.

It’s in Our Blood

Australia's national fractionator of plasma-derived therapeutics, CSL Bioplasma, has adopted Siemens' leading automation technology and benefits from a modern system platform.

Pharma Engineering Hub

With the establishment of its first Pharma Engineering Hub, Siemens is bundling its engineering expertise for process automation and reinforcing its plant lifecycle focus.

Best Medicine

Sanofi Pasteur uses the XFP manufacturing execution software to better meet public health needs – with enhanced quality, total compliance, and improved operational excellence.

An industry perspective

In this PAT-roundtable, three leading pharmaceutical PAT companies offer their opinions on why PAT is becoming more and more essential to the pharmaceutical industry.

Getting Production Down PAT

Sipat helps Wyeth become one of the first companies to align with the Process Analytical Technology (PAT) guidelines issued by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Time for Strategic Decisions

Process analytical technology (PAT) is a vital step towards a future where continuous manufacturing and real time product release can become real in the pharmaceutical sector.

Open Innovation Initiative

Part of the Open Innovation Initiative is a close collaboration between Janssen and Siemens in several fields. We spoke with Eric Snoeckx about the motivation for this partnership.

Key to future pharma success

Bringing together the worlds of the scientist, engineer, patient and payer will be increasingly important for future pharmaceutical success, argue Siemens’ Rebecca Vangenechten and Sivarama Nalluri.

Active Project Ingredients

Janssen and Siemens migrated Teleperm M process control technology for a production plant to Simatic PCS 7 technology with minimal production downtime and a trouble-free production restart.

Early Planning

Kris Buys, engineering and design director for Johnson & Johnson Europe, discusses how early contract involvement (ECI) in automation saves considerable time and money.

First-Class Fast Track

The Roche facility in Penzberg is the company’s largest biotechnology investment project to date. Roche relies on Siemens technology and expertise. Penzberg recently won the “Facility of the Year” award.

Pharmaceutical trends - Pharma 2020

A recent study by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) examined the future of pharma and revealed essential technological and IT strategies. New developments will shape the future of pharma.

Bringing It All Together

Simatic technology not only provided the machine-operation interface Weiler Engineering needed, but also significantly expanded its application flexibility.

Tracking - Genuine Origins

Serializing an ePedigree for drugs will achieve two goals: the reliable detection of counterfeit drugs and the prevention of expensive recall actions.