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Recently, ARC published an article on Novartis Pharma's automation strategy, presented by Antonio Buendia at the OSIsoft EMEA Users Conference in Lisbon on September 22, 2014.
Novartis' automation strategy includes rigorous standardization and paperless workflow to support the company's operational goals. Mr. Buendia explained the three main steps in the execution of his strategy: 1) providing the right data to the right people at the right moment; 2) providing manufacturing control using these data; and 3) enabling the user to analyze, take corrective action, improve, and take preventive action. Novartis' "Workcenter of the Future" environment enables this strategy.
ARC believes that Novartis has raised the bar in setting and executing an automation strategy for industrial data, where each step delivers value, serves as foundation for the next step, and supports the global goals of operations. The rigorous and in-depth standardization also sets a good example. Furthermore, the use of a historian as a "data gateway" to simplify interfacing with level 2 and level 3 appears to be original, simple and effective.
Novartis' approach has created significant cost savings related to equipment standardization. It seems likely that other important benefits will be associated with the approach to interface level 3 to the data gateway. ARC anticipates that the Workcenter of the Future approach will likely create quality and productivity gains.
We strongly recommend reading the article that is now also available from the OSIsoft website.
Antonio Buendia will give a keynote at ARC's European Industry Forum 2015, in which he will give an update on the progress along the Novartis Pharma automation and industrial IT roadmap.
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