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all Editions - Siemens | Printed: 11/24/2009
all Editions - Siemens | Printed: 11/24/2009
ProcessNews, Edition 01/02
| With a comprehensive concept specially adapted to the problems and requirements of a specific industry, Siemens has opened up a new chapter in the cooperation with its customers. This combination of systems, solutions and services has just one aim: to support pharmaceutical and biotech ... more |
ProcessNews, Edition 01/02
| As the general contractor for such an ambitious project as the world’s very first industrial 300-mm-wafer production plant, M+W Zander shouldered a great responsibility. In order to live up to project requirements M+W Zander and Siemens joined forces in the lead-up to the project to work ... more |
ProcessNews, Edition 01/02
| With a new plant for producing human growth hormone (hGH), Novo Nordisk not only wanted to bring its process control and plant automation up to date but at the same time to reorganize its production according to GMP specifications. The Simatic PCS7 process control system and the Batch ... more |
ProcessNews, Edition 01/02
| Yamanouchi Europe BV had high hopes when they first invested in a fully automated ointment production in Meppel in the Netherlands, but the automation system quickly became a harsh disappointment. Therefore the company was very skeptical when Siemens presented its automation solution ... more |
ProcessNews, Edition 01/02
| The new production facility at Lightsonic Optoelectronics Inc. (LOI) in Hsinchu, Taiwan manufactures small size TFT-displays for mobile phones and digital cameras under clean room conditions. Siemens Taiwan won the turn key automation contract for the clean room automation with the new ... more |
ProcessNews, Edition 01/02
| Production processes in the life science market are changing, from conventional chemically synthesized pharmaceuticals to more and more biotechnologically produced pharmaceuticals. These new production methods need effective real-time monitoring and control to guarantee a low-cost, ... more |
ProcessNews, Edition 01/02
| In a clean room area of 8,800 square meters in Dresden, Infineon now runs one of the most modern chip manufacturing plants in Europe. Siemens implemented the clean room technology with its "Totally Integrated Fab" (TIF) concept to cut out superfluous interfaces and redundant processes in ... more |
ProcessNews, Edition 01/02
| GlaxoSmithKline had two main goals when they decided to expand and modernize two of the clean rooms in their production plant at Boronia (suburb of Melbourne), Australia: more flexibility and greater production capacity. The company had already had some positive experience with the ... more |
ProcessNews, Edition 01/02
| Pharmaceutical production is being increasingly governed by laws, regulations and specifications. Document management is becoming a real focal point which manual systems will not be able to cope with in the long term. The Manufacturing Execution System (MES) from the new Siemens ... more |
ProcessNews, Edition 01/02
| Where high value products such as pharmaceuticals are concerned, yield, consistency and repeatable batch processing are important issues. These can all be adversely affected by system failure, which can occur whenever safety and reliability are ignored. Integrated safety systems with ... more |
ProcessNews, Edition 01/02
| Choosing the right control system is almost like choosing an evening suit: Either you want a solution that is tailor-made to exactly meet the requirements – in which case you have to invest a lot of time and money. Or you buy a relatively low-cost system with standard components – in ... more |
ProcessNews, Edition 01/02
| Whether a company is successful in the highly dynamic semiconductor market or not is decisively determined by the ability to get information from all production and business levels in real time, to evaluate this information and use it as a basis for making business decisions. ... more |
ProcessNews, Edition 01/02
| A Joint Venture of Russian and Chinese corporations is building two type VVER 1000 nuclear power plants for Jiangsu Nuclear Power Co. (JNPC) near the Chinese city of Lianyungang. Siemens Power Generation is delivering the entire DCS system for both process and safety control. Moreover, ... more |
ProcessNews, Edition 01/02
| The Enzyme Precursor Plant at GlaxoSmithKline in Irvine, United Kingdom, is a major producer of primary ingredients for the company’s antibiotics production. To meet growing demands, the plant’s production capacity had to be increased. In addition the new system had to be linked to the ... more |
ProcessNews, Edition 01/02
| It is a long, hard road from the chemical composition of a new drug in the laboratory to the approved drug that is ready for the market. The new Novartis pharmaceutical pilot plant facility in East Hanover, New Jersey, has a key role in the scale up of new drugs. The facility not only ... more |
ProcessNews, Edition 01/02
| Prior to shipment of the new Maxum process gas chromatograph, customers often inspect the system at Siemens to check if functionality and operation fit to the specific requirements. Depending on the customer location, travelling to Bartlesville, USA, Karlsruhe, Germany or Singapore is ... more |
ProcessNews, Edition 01/02
| When Pharmacia in Belgium made up their minds to implement and integrate a new SCADA system for two new production units, they wanted keep to their strategy of implementing one standardized SCADA concept for all their future production units within the plant, so they defined a detailed ... more |
ProcessNews, Edition 01/02
| At Siemens, the customer comes first. With a complete service package, Siemens makes sure that plant owners always get the optimum support for their projects – no matter whether the task is to plan, commission or modernize a plant. The customer can be certain that he will always be ... more |
ProcessNews, Edition 01/02
| The new generation of the successful MultiRanger ultrasonic level measuring instruments that has recently become available offers a broadly extended range of features. Owing to several already integrated interfaces, the MultiRanger is now suited for digital communication. Moreover, the ... more |
ProcessNews, Edition 01/02
| The requirements for the control ambient conditions in the sterile production of drugs but also in other industries such as the manufacture of cosmetics or the production of microchips have become stricter and stricter in recent years. Temperature, humidity and pressure as well as ... more |
ProcessNews, Edition 01/02
| The requirements concerning facility automation and information technology in the semiconductor industry have changed drastically. Customized stand-alone solutions are being replaced by integrated total solutions that cover all parts of the plant. Totally Integrated Fab (TIF), the open, ... more |
ProcessNews, Edition 01/02
| At the Egger Company in Brilon two wood chipboard production lines were to be automated with a modern, future-oriented system that offers easy and optimal integration into a total automation solution. The automation was to be implemented using components belonging to one system as far as ... more |
ProcessNews, Edition 01/02
| When GlaxoSmithKline modernized the control system for a spray granulation process in Barnard Castle, they simultaneously reconstructed the material tracking system based on Simatic PCS7 standard components. As a result, the process and material flow can be monitored and controlled on ... more |
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