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Pharmaceutical Focus//Technology Accelerating medicine development L certainty Compact yet powerful programme The component is characterised by a designed to smaller footprint because it does not require help industrial physical hardware controllers or input/ companies output (I/O) cards. Automation strategies achieve top and I/O processing are all executed in a performance. compact workstation. DeltaV Discovery It is licensed as interfaces to lab-scale equipment via a workstation- multiple Ethernet protocols including OPC, based solution for ife sciences enterprises must rapidly bring safe, cost-effective drugs laboratory applications. Modbus/TCP, and Ethernet/IP. Even with the smaller size, it delivers ‘Companies must fi nd ways to scale up powerful capabilities, including batch and therapies to patients. Emerson to commercial operations more effi ciently management and integrated historians, delivers automation strategies that and reduce the time-consuming process not commonly found in a laboratory of technology transfer. This is because it automation platform. support this need for rapid innovation. Its DeltaV Discovery solution speeds up costs around US$2.6 billion to develop a DeltaV Discovery facilitates data integrity, the time to market for pharmaceutical commercially viable drug over of 10 years 21 CFR part 11, and ISA-88 standards for and biotech operations by simplifying the or more,’ says John Nita, vice president batch execution and history collection. It technology transfer from research and of life sciences at Emerson Automation also delivers alarms, events, and advanced discovery to production. It enables more Solutions. ‘The component is vital in helping batch data integration to the user in a effi cient development activity and accurate our life sciences customers ensure work single workstation, ensuring the automation technology transfer from the laboratory done in the research stage translates into a and compliance capabilities required in through to production-scale operations. successfully operating production facility.’ commercial manufacturing are replicated DeltaV Discovery is convenient for Lab scale automation research laboratories where a smaller DeltaV Discovery is a technology footprint and easy automation integration component of Emerson’s operational are important. in the lab. · Emerson – www.emerson.com CubisAd_177x130:Layout 1 2017/04/19 2:51 PM Page 1 We are Sartorius in South Africa Tel [phone] | [email protected] www.biotechsolutions.co.za 42 | MAY 2017 | P C Review