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Pharma Packaging Machinery Buyers Turn to Automation to Deliver Increased Uptime

May 31, 2017

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For the past decade, the pharmaceuticals industry has gotten a pass on overall equipment effectiveness (OEE). Conventional thinking was that, with margins good, they would focus instead on validation and documentation and not expect OEE to be in the high 80s and low 90s like it was for consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers. Some pharma line efficiency numbers sink lower than 50 percent.

OEE has finally come to pharma, and in a big way. Evidence in a new report, PMMI Business Intelligence, Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices 2016: Trends and Opportunities in Packaging Operations, shows that pharma machinery buyers are looking for improvements that will drive production and packaging line efficiency, and automation holds the answer.

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