Life Science Manufacturing Solutions.

Protecting your Data

One offering in our portfolio of data management solutions is our MES IT product, which has three major advantages to offer shop floor data collection and archival in the Life Science business:

1.) Validation to GAMP 5 Procedures. The process of collecting and archiving records to a repository such as SQL Server or SAP requires a reduced validation effort using MES IT. This is a process that would typically be scripted and thus classified as Category 5 software. Using MES IT the process becomes parameterised/ configured (Category 2/4 classification) and thus represents a saving in costs and time associated with the validation effort.

2.) 21 CFR 11. The use of MES IT can assist with compliance to 21 CFR 11 as it meets the requirements of the policy with respect to access security, archival and retrieval of data and provision of concise audit trail information.

3.) Electronic Record Integrity. MES IT utilises “store & forward” technology to mitigate against the loss of electronic records in the advent of connectivity failure with the record repository such as SAP, Oracle or SQL Server.

Understanding Your Process

Mitsubishi Electric provides control, data management and visualisation solutions to help realise PAT (Process Analytical Technology) based solutions in Life Science manufacturing. We contribute with our solutions by helping to increase the OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) of a process, through providing meaningful plant data for analysis and problem solving, and then offering solutions providing accurate control using high availability products. Finally everything you do relies on manufacturing.

As a player in the Life Science industry you are a creator of chemical, bio-medical or medical solutions for your customers. And in order to remain as a leader in your industry you need to be able to react faster with new developments, increase the volume of saleable product, reduce unnecessary costs while continuously observing compliance issues.

Giving you an edge

It doesn’t matter if you need bottle filling, labelling, bagging, horizontal or vertical pillow processes, case packing or palletising Mitsubishi Electric has solutions and experience to help you achieve your goals with as little fuss as possible.

Mitsubishi Electric is able to bring together support for open standards such as PackML and Weihenstephan protocol with sequential control, process control and high speed motion control on to a single platform which makes engineering faster and reduces costs.

Handling problems

Materials handling needs care, speed and precision to manage the task at hand without damaging the product or creating production bottle necks. Finally this means you need experience.

Mitsubishi Electric’s experience in materials handling covers the complete range of applications from in-line sorting through to high level racking and storage to AGV’s and robotic solutions.  A deep integration between servo and robotic and control systems, with the ability to receive and pass data directly back to ERP packages such as SAP, means most users applications can be handled – with no problems.

Life-cycle engineering

Mitsubishi Electric and e-F@ctory partner Adroit Technologies have addressed the short-comings of traditional PLC-SCADA integration tools with the Mitsubishi Electric Adroit Process Suite (MAPS). MAPS is a life-cycle software tool that offers value at all stages of a project from the design and engineering phases to the integration, installation and commissioning phases and finally into the running and maintenance phase. This should help the Life Science manufacturer with validation costs.

It also extends the integrity of the ‘as delivered’ solution as it offers full system documentation from actual wiring through to the installed code. This helps users maintain consistency and integrity within an automation system, improving quality, reducing downtime and associated costs.

Advanced Control

Process Automation Controllers (PACs) have been around for many years, however, Mitsubishi Electric has really taken this to a new level of automated control offering users the chance to integrate their choice of four control concepts from PAC, Process controller, PLC, Motion Controller,

Robot Controller and even NC control in to a single harmonious system. It can also be augmented with an open C based control environment and an embedded PC depending on the needs. Everything in one place, everything interoperating: save time, save costs simplify systems.

Advanced robotics

When people think of robots in automation  they often have an image of the big car plants and welding activities. In fact robots can be used in many business areas and Life science is no exception.

Robots of course make great optimisers for pick and place processes, especially associated with packaging activities. However, this is only the beginning of their contribution as they can be found in secondary packaging, quality control and test environments for pharma and chemical processes but also have been deployed in secondary supportive roles in medical procedures such as surgery and body scanning.

C Batch – Innovative thinking

Batch control has always been dominated by expensive PC based solutions feeding data down to local control and implementation stations. These layers of architecture make complex systems. C Batch simplifies this and provides an S.88 based batch engine and configuration tool that reduces the engineering process within the PAC environment, removing the need for PC’s and utilising Industrial proven hardware to increase availability and reduce susceptibility to some forms of cyber attack.

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