With the rise of biologics and personalized medicine, the biopharmaceutical industry is adding single-use technologies (SUTs) to their manufacturing options. Manufacturers are realizing the benefits of being agile, and many are adopting SUTs to turn over smaller batches of new products quickly and efficiently. Single-use technologies use disposable bioprocessing equipment, such as bags and flexible…
Life sciences single-use instrumentation trends
Single-use instrumentation, especially new pH sensors designed for upstream and downstream applications, are helping manufacturers develop production suites for creating a greater variety of small-run yet highly targeted drugs. Life sciences manufacturers already incorporate leading measurement and automation technologies to ensure the quality of the drugs and medicines they bring to market. Yet because the…
Emerson debuts software for CIP applications
Emerson (NYSE:EMR) has launched its new Clean In Place (CIP) Utilities and Automated Reporting Analytics package on its PACEdge and Movicon platforms on an industrial edge control device. The food and beverage, and pharmaceutical industries use the clean- and steam-in-place method to clean fittings, vessels, filters, pipes and other internal surfaces without disassembly. Emerson notes that Steam In Place (SIP) has a more…
Equipment reliability is key to operational integrity in life sciences manufacturing
It’s difficult for a company to achieve excellence when batches are lost and maintenance crews must fight fires due to equipment failure. Still, solutions are available now to address these and other issues in the pharmaceutical industry. Most life sciences plants and facilities face many issues impacting reliability, throughput, and uptime. For example, a bioreactor’s…
These technologies are speeding COVID-19 vaccines to market
A combination of digital tools, improved production equipment, and advanced instrumentation helped COVID-19 vaccines to roll out in record time. Ben Arriola and Zach Blum, Emerson There is little doubt that researchers will study the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects from countless angles in the decades to come. Few events in modern times have had…
Why wet storage is key for biopharmaceutical single-use pH sensor performance
For biopharmaceutical single-use applications, pH sensors designed for wet storage deliver needed long shelf life and one-point calibration. Brandon Haschke, Emerson Biopharmaceutical processing applications, and especially single-use technology (SUT) manufacturing methods, present unique challenges for performing pH measurements. Quite often these processes are automated, and certainly they all must be monitored, so there is always…