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November 2003
Emerson Conference on
“Manufacturing Excellence in the Irish Pharmaceutical Industry”
exceeds expectations.
The Manufacturing Excellence conference, sponsored by Emerson
Process Management and entitled “Automation in the Irish pharmaceutical
industry”, was a great success. The conference in Cork in October was
attended by 120 people over the two days. Joe Hoare, Sales Manager for Emerson
in Ireland, was delighted with the attendance: all parts of the Irish
pharmaceutical industry were represented, and delegates also came from the UK,
Denmark, Germany, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland – all keen to hear the
experiences gained in recent major investments in the industry in Ireland.
The presentations made primarily described the
expertise gained in applying Emerson DeltaV™
digital automation systems to current projects. Wyeth at Grange Castle,
near Dublin, is building what will be the largest biopharmaceutical campus in the
world, covering 90 acres, to manufacture products to treat rheumatoid
arthritis, and pneumonia in young children. Novo Nordisk Engineering discussed
fast track modular plant construction techniques used on a recent plant
constructed for the manufacture of Insulin. Bristol-Myers Squibb has a new
plant nearing completion on a 45 acre site near Dublin Airport, and Pfizer
discussed the approach to batch manufacture adopted on the OSP4 plant in Cork.
All the lecturers agreed on the importance
of taking every
opportunity to benchmark the approach adopted against that taken in other
plants, and events such as Manufacturing Excellence were welcomed as an
opportunity to promote such exchanges between colleagues across the industry.
As well as training seminars, presentations by
experienced Emerson managers sketched the future developments planned for new
releases of the DeltaV digital automation system. The audience was also keen to
hear of the use of the Micro Motion®
“Elite” high accuracy (0.1% of rate) Coriolis mass flowmeter, for
on site validation equipment.
The next conference in the Manufacturing Excellence
series will take place in June 2004 in the Midlands, UK. The interest and
success of this Pharmaceutical event in Cork has brought forward plans for other
industry specific conferences in 2004.
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