Cost reduction in the pharmaceutical industry

Innovative technology and maintenance concepts help reduce costs while guaranteeing quality

The life sciences industry continuously faces new challenges. Broad sections of the population need to be supplied with affordable drugs. While high research costs demand high productivity and reliability, pharmaceutical companies must provide consistently high quality at lower cost. Maintaining profitability, global manufacturing and cost awareness are important. Innovative solutions are more and more requested in this context. We have some ideas for you.

How we can help

Our industry experts have many ideas on how to cut costs in pharmaceutical manufacturing while improving operational excellence. Using our innovative measurement technology and maintenance concepts can reduce your calibration effort and costs significantly. To control your costs, you should consider to:

optimize calibration or install self-calibrating temperature measurement devices
standardize your installed assets, optimize your stock and increase the availability of spare parts
integrate and evaluate diagnostic data and verify instrument functionality
optimize your water production and distribution loop

Applications

Implement innovative temperature measurement

Temperature is one of the main critical measurement points in a bioprocess with strong impact on both, cell kinetics and solubility of dissolved gases. Temperature influences reaction kinetics, cell growth, cell viability and product formation. Therefore narrow-band temperature control and frequent calibration is necessary to meet process requirements and accuracy.

temperature measurement, self-calibration, TrustSens

Our expertise in the field

To ensure optimum output and quality, temperature devices should be calibrated regularly. In critical applications a six-month-interval is common. Using innovative measurement technology can reduce calibration effort and costs significantly. Which is why we developed the world's first self-calibration temperature sensor TrustSens TM371. This innovative device offers you fully automated, traceable, inline self calibration that will help you eliminate nonconformities or undetected failures

Standardize your installed assets

Uniform operation and quick replacement of devices: this might sound easy, but it is not. Gaining and maintaining full transparency of the many installed assets in your plant over time is a constant challenge that significantly increases maintenance efforts.

installed base analysis, plant availability

Our expertise in the field

Analyzing your installed assets is the first step to optimized maintenance and plant availability. During this process our experts can identify obsolete or outdated instruments which can then be easily replaced. Not only will your spar parts logistics drastically improve by standardizing your assets, you will also be able to improve and streamline your training efforts in a standardized environment.

Verify instrument functionality

Maintenance and calibration are often considered a time and cost intensive nuisance. However, both maintenance and calibration are key when it comes to safeguarding process reliability and product quality.

verify your instrument with Heartbeat Technology offering total test coverage

Our expertise in the field

Instruments equipped with Heartbeat Technology significantly extend test cycles and supply standardized diagnostic notifications for cost-effective maintenance. The technology offers simple and easy monitoring of the measurement points during daily operation. Errors are recognized in an early stage and production downtime is minimized. Instrument verification validates that all critical components are working properly within the defined specification.

Optimize your water production and distribution

In order to prevent bioburden, water must be continuously in motion at a flow speed above 2 m/sec. Reliable flow measurement is thus fundamentally important and critical measurement points must be calibrated regularly. When it comes to purified water and water for injection conductivity is the main quality parameter. The limits defined in the pharmacopeias must always be met. n

bioprocess productivity, operational excellence, life sciences, water quality, water purification

Our expertise in the field

With Heartbeat Technology our instruments provide reliable self-monitoring and help optimize your calibration procedures, especially in continuous processes. This directly results in higher plant availability and productivity. In PW and WFI non temperature compensated conductivity measurement in the low range is a basic requirement. The system calibration in the distribution loop is an efficient way to assure regulatory compliance. To optimize your water production we offer:

Highly accurate flow measurement
Reliable conductivity monitoring
Easy and fast calibration
Self-diagnostic and effortless verification

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Water purification and distribution process (overview

Water purification process PW — Water purification process (WFI)

Meet our expert

"To calibrate a temperature sensor, so far our customers had to stop production, dismount the sensor and perform manual work. To help them safe time and money, we invented a self-calibrating sensor."

Dietmar Saecker

Senior Product and Application Expert, Endress+Hauser Temperature+Signal Processing

Benefits

Master the future challenges together with our specialists. They provide a thousand ideas on how to achieve cost control in life sciences, help support you to reach your goals and attain operational excellence.

10%

cost reduction thanks to preventive maintenance concepts
60%

less SOPs for calibration
94%

total test coverage with Heartbeat Technology

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FLEX selections	Technical excellence	Simplicity
F L E X Fundamental selection Meet your basic measurement needs	Technical excellence	Simplicity
F L E X Lean selection Handle your core processes easily	Technical excellence	Simplicity
F L E X Extended selection Optimize your processes with innovative technologies	Technical excellence	Simplicity
F L E X Xpert selection Master your most challenging applications	Technical excellence	Simplicity Variable

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Analysis

Analysis

Water, beverages, dairy products, chemicals or pharmaceuticals have to be analyzed every day. Choose the device best suited to your process needs from our comprehensive product portfolio.
Flowmeter

Flowmeter

Water, natural gas, steam, mineral oil, chemicals are some of the fluids that have to be measured day in, day out. Select the flowmeter best suited to your process needs.
Level

Level

Continuous level measurement and point level detection in liquids and bulk solids
Pressure

Pressure

Powerful instruments for process pressure, differential pressure, level and flow.
Software

Software

Apart from all relevant measuring and system technologies, we also offer appropriate software for all branches of industry that provide to run your operating processes at its full potential.
System products

System products

Applicator
Temperature measurement

Temperature measurement

Thermometers and transmitters for the process industry
Solutions to improve productivity while lowering your costs

Solutions to improve productivity while lowering your costs

With the combination of reliable instruments and systems combined with services addressing your needs we help you to overcome your challenges. Learn more about the possibilities available to you.
Instrumentation services

Instrumentation services

Maximize plant performance, minimize OPEX, increase uptime, all with compliance. Partner with Endress+Hauser instrumentation services.

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Chemical: Competitive and safe

Chemical: Competitive and safe

Get the extra project skill and know-how you need to boost your plant's safety and performance
Food & Beverage: Trust in quality

Food & Beverage: Trust in quality

Your partner to meet global hygiene regulations, ensure consistent product quality and plant availability while conserving resources and lowering costs.
Water & Wastewater: Water is our life

Water & Wastewater: Water is our life

Through working with water in over 100 countries, we can help you improve plant safety and availability, optimize costs in your internal water processes and support your risk and failure management.

Cost reduction in the pharmaceutical industry

Innovative technology and maintenance concepts help reduce costs while guaranteeing quality

How we can help

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