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CDC Factory Business Benefits in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Pharmaceutical manufacturers are characterized by the constant pressure for product innovation, stringent manufacturing conditions, and increasing regulatory requirements. The competitive edge goes to those manufacturers that produce the highest quality products with the utmost safety, while maximizing enterprise-wide performance efficiencies.
To get that competitive edge, pharmaceutical manufacturers are turning to the CDC Factory system to capitalize on their greatest asset – their people. Armed with real-time information on production schedules, production operations, per-unit costs, quality conformance and asset costs factory floor teams are implementing immediate reviews, making real-time adjustments and measuring immediate performance improvements. This is achieved while improving regulatory conformance through streamlined shop floor quality and manufacturing working practices.
Beyond these incremental improvements, pharmaceutical manufacturers are sustaining productivity gains by using real-time intelligence to identify priorities for long-term improvement, including supplier collaboration, product innovation, service delivery and pinpointing priorities for capital investment.
CDC Factory provides manufacturing operations management solutions to address the following challenges:
- Dynamic & accurate shop floor planning and scheduling
- Consistent real-time factory performance management
- Control of complex & dynamic SKU profiles
- Capacity constraints
- Inventory control
- Conformance to food safety standards
- Consistent yield performance
- Consistent asset utilization and maintenance control
- Consistent factory floor metrics such as yield, rate and cost per unit
- Standardized factory floor workflow and practices
- Efficient labor productivity
- Continuous improvement frameworks
Making the shift to operating as a real-time factory is enabling pharmaceutical manufacturers to efficiently meet service and innovation demands at the pace their customers require.