Pharmaceutical Industry

IT as a key to success in the pharmaceutical industry

The pharmaceutical industry is currently going through a turbulent phase. The interaction of different factors such as price regulation, decreasing productivity in the drug development, stringent monitoring by governmental agencies, and increasing competition from generic drugs put companies in that field under tremendous financial pressure.

This leads companies to reconsider their core processes in order to find ways to increase profit and productivity. Many pharma companies reorganize, rationalize and standardize their operations. These measures usually focus on procurement and production, but also on back-office functions such as building maintenance. The key to success in these areas often lies in IT solutions. It is necessary to increase efficiency considerably and to use IT as a driver of innovation.

This requires an open system that allows the clear representation of data on site and that assumes not just the visualization of data and facility conditions, but also the monitoring and control. Additional possibilities for archiving, protocolling and performance management, as well as for configuration of plant-components allow for quick reaction to tasks: Thanks to a uniform user interface, down-times in production are drastically minimized, costs are reduced and the productivity is considerably increased.

zenon also has a long-lasting effect on the company’s innovation: Improved data recording and faster reporting to governmental agencies make quicker and better decisions possible: Critical factor for success in the pharma industry.

IT Environment is highly diversified and decentralized.

In a typical pharmaceutical company it can happen that several different systems for ERP, Finances, and document management exist side-by-side. Often this is based on a complex common infrastructure. This inefficiency is costly.

In such cases an automation solution with zenon can be a very useful ally and catalyzer. zenon´s openness and flexibility towards different connections allows the trouble-free coupling and the use of a variety of different systems. zenon runs on a great number of platforms, it is easily networked, integrateable and globally available, open and flexible for future developments.