Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Leveraging.cdr

Ashok Khanna has over 19 years of industry experience in the field of healthcare, hi-tech and telecom. As a business leader, his expertise spans multiple medical and pharmaceutical domain areas including new product development, product lifecycle management, manufacturing operations management, R&D and quality, regulatory and product sustenance. With over 21 years of experience in the IT industry in areas such as software development, research, technology consulting and software quality assurance, Prateep Mishra leads the development of platforms for Internet-of-Things applications. Mishra's current focus areas include IT infrastructure architecture and design, IT transformation, storage systems, large scale and real time analytics platforms, and cloud computing. Mahendra Hasnabis has 17 years of engineering and manufacturing IT experience covering various functions such as consulting, solution architecture, design development, project and program management. Hasnabis has been contributing extensively towards enterprise-wide initiatives including standardization, rationalization and manufacturing transformation. Pharmaceutical manufacturing plants across the world will soon encounter radical changes in their operations, with the increasing use of sensors on the manufacturing floor. This network of sensors which can drastically improve patient outcomes is referred to as the Internet of Things for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing (IoT-PM). Connected manufacturing technologies have gained prominence as a result of the growing incidence of counterfeit drugs and the need to monitor drug quality and distribution. A connected manufacturing environment offers seamless and integrated access to information from shop floor to top floor, as well as through the distribution channels. Regulatory agencies and manufacturers can track the flow of pharmaceuticals through channels where serialization of information is used or updated. Improved visibility and remote access to equipment improves overall performance of the plant and reduces the cost of production through timely supervision. IoT-PM simulates an environment where equipment parameters will get transmitted by shop floors via a gateway onto the internet to be stored, aggregated and analyzed. This application will be capable of storing data for multiple pharmaceutical manufacturing plants. It will analyze data and report exceptions in real time to promote global visibility and control of manufacturing operations, and optimize performance.