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Suffering from Data Overload? There’s a Cure

February 27, 2018

A typical pharmaceutical plant generates a staggering amount of information. In fact, it’s not unusual for a single processing line or inspection system to produce multiple terabytes of data each day.

But while the pharmaceutical sector might top the list for the volume of information collected, it has lagged behind other industries in successfully mining that data to improve manufacturing processes.

There are good reasons for this, of course. Chief among them: the regulatory nature of the industry, which mandates validation and historically supported a more reactive approach to data analysis for quality verification purposes.

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