Features of the new platform include automation-layer integration, equipment modeling and non-order work-flow management, which boosts manufacturing execution system (MES) impact and enhance time-to-results.
Besides, it also assists in risk management, cost reduction and regulatory compliance, according to the company.
Rockwell Automation pharmasuite product manager Martin Dittmer said, "With improved automation-layer integration, equipment modeling and nonorder work-flow management, the PharmaSuite v5.0 system helps manufacturers deploy systems more rapidly with greater production flexibility."
For automating set points, tracking automation events and consolidating process information into the electronic batch record, the new system automatically gathers data from production equipment and reduces possibility of human error that can result from manual data collection.
The PharmaSuite Recipe Designer increases information-flow design to access to both definition and run-time information across the complete recipe to give users additional insight into real-time production information, to easily modify functionality to meet their requirements.
Its new equipment modeler enables users to describe the automation interface, maintain equipment descriptions and specifications, and use the new equipment modeler as the foundation for GMP-compliance tracking and automation-integration settings.
Contrary to the traditional needs of custom programming by a systems integrator, the new software redefines assembling and supporting nonorder-related work flows.
The system leveraging S88-recipe design principles, allows on-site end user or recipe author to build new work flows on their own, by re-using existing building blocks. It also assists manufacturers to reduce overall production costs to help accelerate the return on investment.