Assess your digital manufacturing maturity

Badge sponsors MasterControl explain what you can see by visiting Stand A39 at Med-Tech Innovation Expo.

Advanced manufacturing technologies are necessary to keep up with evolving trends in life sciences and meet the demand to bring life-improving products to patients faster. Companies must take advantage of modern technologies and progress in their journey to achieve digital maturity, a state where manufacturing operations are seamlessly connected, optimised, and error-free.

MasterControl has been in the life sciences industry for more than 25 years and has helped thousands of companies that are developing leading-edge innovations. Their market-leading software solutions help organisations digitise, automate, and connect quality and manufacturing processes and ultimately improve product quality, reduce cost, and accelerate time to market.

MasterControl recently conducted a study on the level of digitisation pharma and medtech companies are deploying in their manufacturing operations. It is no surprise that 85% of your industry peers are implementing manufacturing execution system software. To stay compliant and competitive in today’s market, manufacturers of regulated products need to develop and deliver products to patients faster. In particular, companies in pharma and medtech are seeking better ways to meet this objective — it’s evident that product development is far more difficult with disconnected, manual production management processes. For example, are any of the following activities part of your manufacturing routine?

⊲ Making hand-written entries and notes on paper reports and manually moving them through approval cycles and manufacturing phases

⊲ Treating paper documents and reports before they can go into sterile areas

⊲ Having to go through the process of exiting sterile areas to resolve data entry issues or reference a previous report

⊲ Scanning all paper documents, regardless of length, to create electronic versions for inspectors.

Life sciences product manufacturers who avoid these tasks can improve efficiency and meet critical key performance indicators (KPIs). They achieve this by implementing modern, purpose-built digital manufacturing solutions, like MasterControl’s Manufacturing Excellence. In addition to improving production efficiency, systems like Manufacturing Excellence add to the value of digitisation by creating connections between systems, machines, processes, departments, and people. This type of interconnectivity lets you easily transfer and access information between all your enterprise systems and external stakeholders and auditors in real time.

That said, how does your company compare with your industry competitors in using manufacturing execution system software? Among the results in MasterControl’s recent survey, 63% of the participants are pursuing digital maturity specifically to gain a competitive advantage.

WHERE DO YOU FIT IN THE DIGITAL MATURITY MANUFACTURING MODEL?

Are you unsure of how your manufacturing operations compare to those of your peers? Do you suspect that your operations are not as digitally mature as they should be? You can gauge how your company stacks up against your competitors by completing the interactive assessment that MasterControl created as part of its digital maturity study.

Upon completing the assessment, you will receive personalised results that will help you identify your company’s level of digitisation based on the following digital manufacturing maturity model: Manual – Primarily paper-based Digital – Some processes digitised

Connected – Manufacturing execution system (MES)/electronic batch record (EBR) on every line

Intelligent – Real-time, integrated operational processes

Where does digitisation rank in your company’s business strategy?

Determine your current status in the digital maturity model by taking our digital maturity assessment.

You will also learn:

⊲ How your manufacturing operations compare to those of your competitors

⊲ Which areas of your operation will benefit the most from your digital manufacturing solutions

⊲ The next critical steps on your path to digital maturity.

The journey to digital maturity can feel overwhelming at times but taking small steps will lead to continual improvement and further success within your organisation. Look for the steps in your process where you can remove your reliance on paper and make connections to other systems. An electronic production record is often a good place to start, especially when using a modern, configurable manufacturing execution software. MasterControl Manufacturing Excellence can often be implemented within 180 days, and manufacturers can realise the benefits and begin achieving a return on their investment quickly while they also deliver quality medical products to more people sooner. Please stop by the MasterControl booth A39 for a product demonstration and you can also request a free copy of the complete market research results, if interested.

MasterControl will be exhibiting at Med-Tech Innovation Expo on Stand A39.