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Discrete Event Simulation vs Math Programming Technology for Pharmaceutical Plants
With many factors to account for and an extensive number of events to sequence, planning and scheduling for pharmaceutical sites is incredibly complicated to execute. This complexity has made way for multiple planning and scheduling software systems to hit the market over...
The Power of Combined Knowledge & Data Sharing in Manufacturing
For manufacturing organizations, gathering, organizing, and analyzing all the available data about their internal processes is important for many reasons. However, elite companies that want to gain deeper knowledge and implement the most successful strategies have started...
Why Implement the Same Tools Across All of Your Manufacturing Sites?
Despite the interconnected nature of the modern business world, many manufacturing companies still treat their production sites as individual, separate entities. These facilities are often located offsite from the company’s headquarters and tend to focus on their specific...
Benefits of Human-In-The-Loop Software for Production Sites
In recent years, manufacturers have started prioritizing investments in automation and AI for their plants. According to data from IFS, more than 90% of all manufacturers are planning to invest in AI for their production processes. We recently took a closer look at how AI...
A Look into States’ Battle for a Slice of the Semiconductor Business
As we’ve covered in previous articles, semiconductors are making quite the entrance to the United States manufacturing landscape. For years, the semiconductor industry was limited to a small geographic area in Asia. Between newly imposed tariffs and pandemic-influenced...
How Automation Can Improve the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain
In recent months, healthcare providers and pharmacies across the US have experienced shortages of drugs like amoxicillin, Tamiflu, and children’s Tylenol. Without access to these high-demand medicines, families have been left scrambling to get through the “tripledemic”...
Advantages of Expanding an Existing Pharmaceutical Plant
After years of record growth in the industry, pharmaceutical manufacturers still aren’t slowing down. Recently, several of the world’s largest biopharmaceutical companies announced plans to invest in the expansion of some of their current manufacturing sites. In December,...
How VirtECS® Became “Ubiquitous” in Biologics Planning and Scheduling: An Internal Case Study
As a major biologics manufacturing site was considering options to optimize their planning and scheduling processes, their top priority was to find a tool that was incredibly flexible and could accurately predict the outcome of different complex scenarios. Their existing...
A Look Into Advanced Manufacturing’s Data Problem
Many of today’s manufacturing processes have grown increasingly complex, and as such, they can quickly become unorganized and scattered. If you work at a manufacturing site, you probably already know this. Like any strategic leader, you’re hoping to regain control and...
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