To this day, many Medical Device manufacturers are still operating on paper… Is your business one of them? We’re excited to share this exclusive e-book created for Seabrook Technology Group, one of our valued partners at the Virtual American Medical Device Summit! In this e-book, we examine the value of Connected Manufacturing for Medtech 4.0. Here’s a key excerpt from our interview with Seabrook: Welcome to Connected Manufacturing. Connected Manufacturing is not just a “product” or “service”, but a strategy that eliminates the shoehorning of new functionality into legacy systems. Additionally, connected manufacturing enables the “best of breed” approach that optimizes operations, enhances user experience, and maximizes value returned to the organization. We invite you to access the full e-book here.
Read More →American Food Manufacturing Summit 2019 Gathers Experts to Discuss Technology, Food Safety, and the Future of the Industry
From November 12-13, food and beverage processors and suppliers are meeting in Chicago to discuss current trends, strategic insights, and best practices in the ever-evolving environment of food manufacturing.
Read More →American Pharma Outsourcing Summit Gathers Top Industry Executives to Discuss Strategy and Innovation, Outsourcing Management, and Procurement
From September 23-24, pharmaceutical executives are meeting in Philadelphia to discuss current trends, strategic insights, and best practices in manufacturing, outsourcing, capacity management, quality assurance, quality control, regulatory compliance, operational excellence, supply chain, and logistics.
Read More →Bringing Precision Medicine to Market
When it comes to biopharmaceutical drug discovery and development, we live in an incredible time. The FDA has approved innovative medicines with differing approaches, platforms, technologies, and modalities. As we leverage new technologies, our strategies for drug discovery are leading to therapeutic diversity, which is rapidly becoming a complicated landscape for manufacturing teams.
Read More →Digital Transformation: Driving Behavior Change
Companies everywhere seem eager and ready to invest in digital transformation strategies, but are they achieving results? The numbers so far seem to indicate that the answer may be a resounding “no.” Studies continue to show that up to 80% of transformation efforts fail to achieve their intended goals. Ahead of the American Biomanufacturing Summit 2019, Generis Group spoke to Kim Huggins, partner at ALULA, to discuss why digital transformation is one of the most complex and disruptive initiatives an organization can experience.
Read More →Competitive Business Solutions Case Study: Procedure Improvement
Competitive Business Solutions (CBS) executed an intensive process to address a long list of deficient processes that were a drag on product quality and threatened the client’s ability to meet a key financial commitment. The five and a half-month project spanned hundreds of process improvement efforts and a concerted effort to upgrade the skills of a mostly junior workforce. An important emphasis was placed on maintaining critical production equipment and instilling new levels of discipline and individual accountability. The result: significant reductions in unit labor hours, defect rates, and product rework; a return to on-time deliveries; and achievement of the client’s fiscal 2017 revenue target. Client A Tier 2 supplier of wings with revenues of more than $3 billion, contracted with Competitive Business Solutions in 2017. Overview The client took over production from a tier 1 supplier that was reducing its manufacturing footprint. The plant had seen significant turnover in both its leadership and labor along with sustained inattention to capital improvements and routine maintenance. These circumstances seriously threatened the client’s ability to meet customer demands for delivery, cost, and quality. Click through to access the full case study here.
Read More →Workforce Management Manufacturing: Interview with SchedulePro
Sachin Agrawal is the CEO of SchedulePro, a leading workforce management solution provider for the manufacturing, petroleum and corrections industries, whose customers include Procter & Gamble, a Big 3 auto manufacturer and Shell Oil. As an expert on workforce efficiency and labor cost reduction, Sachin has a track record of significantly increasing productivity and reducing costs for Fortune 500 companies. Prior to SchedulePro, Sachin was a product leader at Microsoft where he developed enterprise-scale products for Windows, MSN and Windows Server. Prior to the American Manufacturing Summit, we spoke with SchedulePro to discuss workforce management in the manufacturing industry. This is an excerpt from the interview with SchedulePro: “Why should manufacturers choose automated employee scheduling over manual scheduling? Increased productivity and the ability to quickly improve their bottom line are two of SchedulePro’s most significant benefits for manufacturers looking to reduce labor costs and improve employee working conditions. An automated solution will also produce staff schedules that are more compliant than manual scheduling solutions, helping manufacturers avoid issues with regulatory and union bodies.”
Read More →Augmented Reality in Manufacturing
Q&A with Librestream Dan Flynn has 20 years of experience in sales and business development at companies ranging from early stage high growth to global corporations. At Librestream, Dan is responsible for North American Sales. His experience includes Networking, Security, Hosting, Video, Enterprise and SaaS software platforms, and Big Data. In March 2019, Dan will join industry leaders at the American Manufacturing Summit to discuss the impact of market dynamics and new technologies for current and future manufacturing, operations and supply chain leaders. Drawing from his own expertise, Dan will lead a Lunch & Learn session on “Digitize Your Workers’ Day with Augmented Reality and Wearables: Deployment Examples and Business Outcomes”. His session will cover the benefits of digitization and augmented reality (AR), the different types of wearables available to manufacturers and the outcomes of implementing AR into an organization. This is an excerpt from the Q&A with Dan Flynn: “What are the main drivers for organizations deploying augmented reality? When it comes to organizations investing in digital transformation technologies like augmented reality (AR), there are three main trends we are seeing in the manufacturing market. The first trend focuses on the digital ecosystem of smart factories. Nowadays, factories are well equipped with better wireless coverage and many organizations have the devices needed, such as smartphones and wearables, to start deploying AR. The second factor is the shift in service demands. This, in turn, puts more demand on the manufacturing …
Read More →How to Set Up a Demand Driven Supply Chain: Moving from Push to Pull to Meet Customer Needs
Q&A with Reveal Value Prior to the American Supply Chain Summit 2019, we spoke with Reveal Value to discuss how companies can set up a demand-driven supply chain and move from push to pull in order to meet customer needs. In this Q&A, we address what steps companies need to take in order to reap the full benefits of a supply chain that is driven by demand, the key benefits of a mature supply chain, and how companies can leverage digitization to stay competitive. This is an excerpt from the Q&A we did with Reveal Value: “How can companies use digitization to stay competitive in an ever-changing landscape? Digitization helps connect processes and applications across multiple functional areas to sense and respond more quickly to customer needs and deliver value that is focused on outcomes. It changes how employees work by using intelligent technologies and reliable data to drive new levels of productivity and efficiency.”
Read More →De-Risking in the MedTech Industry
Risk analysis is an essential component of your quality management system. A mandatory task for every new medical device about to hit the market is creating an appropriate Risk Management Plan as required by ISO 14971, the international standard for applying risk management to the design and manufacture of medical devices.
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