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The Pros & Cons of Internal Facilities and CDMOs for Biopharmaceutical Companies
For years, many of the leaders in the biopharmaceutical industry focused on vertical integration in their supply chain. These industry giants built an internal network of manufacturing plants to keep the production of drug substance and drug product under their control....
How Contract Manufacturers Can Use a Digital Twin to Overcome Slowing Demand Post-Pandemic
During the heights of the Covid-19 pandemic, contract development and manufacturing organizations, or CDMOs, experienced a historic surge in demand. Large pharmaceutical companies had raced to create vaccines and treatments, but once they were approved, those biopharma...
Case Study: How A Biologics Company Uses a Digital Twin to Analyze Facility Fit
When we talk to biologics companies about implementing VirtECS at their manufacturing sites, we always ask about the planning challenges they face. In those conversations, we hear frequently about issues with facility fit and tech transfer. Many hope to cut weeks or even...
The Role of Digital Twins in New Product Development: Commercial Manufacturing
Bringing these new products to the commercial market creates a wide range of challenges for leading biopharma manufacturing facilities. Plants operations can often look drastically different once a new commercial manufacturing run is added to production. Our colleague from...
The Role of Digital Twins in New Product Development: Clinical Manufacturing
The past several years have been a time of accelerated innovation in the biopharmaceutical industry and new drugs are being developed at a rapid rate. According to Deloitte’s 13th Annual Pharmaceutical Innovation Report, the top 20 global pharmaceutical companies spent a...
How Manufacturing Production Schedule Changes Have Unexpected Effects on Site Operations
In many real-world manufacturing environments, disruptions occur frequently, forcing unexpected adjustments to their production schedules. Some of these disruptions, such as supply chain delays or equipment breakdowns, are simply inevitable, even for the most proactive and...
Comparing VirtECS & AspenTech for Process Modeling, Planning, and Scheduling for Pharmaceutical Sites
AspenTech and VirtECS are two of pharmaceutical manufacturers’ most well-known choices for process modeling, analysis, and planning & scheduling software providers. For plants looking to optimize their production schedules and improve their overall output, both tools...
The Role of IT in Manufacturing Planning and Scheduling
To keep up with the rapid rate of innovation in the global manufacturing industry, a growing number of companies are turning to smart manufacturing with advanced planning and scheduling programs. According to Gartner, nearly 80% of manufacturers are currently investing in...
KEYNOTE: BioProcess International – Achieving Data-Driven Smart Manufacturing
This presentation will discuss a unique and practical learning framework – VirtECS (Virtually Exhaustive Combinatorial System) – to rapidly (1) enable a high-fidelity model of bioprocessing and (2) search the many possible process schedules to find a high-performance way...
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