AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 18, 2025 – Emerson, an industrial technology leader delivering advanced automation solutions, has collaborated with Roche, one of the world’s largest biotechnology companies, to deliver a digital library of modalities for faster deployment and utilization of DeltaV Process Knowledge Management (PKM) software, minimizing the time it takes to develop a process specification through its lifecycle to full commercial scale.
The DeltaV PKM Modality Library provides a set of software building blocks to help organizations quickly establish a modular approach to characterizing process definitions. By further standardizing process specification elements and relationships, life sciences innovators can more rapidly deliver lifesaving and life-improving treatments to patients in need.
Today it can take months to establish an organization’s standards and then create the associated validate-able building blocks using the PKM collaboration environment. Users must align on an ontology, equipment classes and capabilities, use of materials and formulations, quality testing plans, etc., before they can begin creating process specification recipes. All of this must also be aligned with the submission and licensing process and within the global supply chain.
Technology transfer is a major obstacle in delivering new medical breakthroughs to patients globally. This specialized library can allow companies to overcome this hurdle by streamlining and accelerating the move from research to commercial launch.
PKM software is designed to dramatically improve and shorten the technology transfer process. It replaces manual methods with a structured repository to define the process specification and a collaborative digital platform to manage changes as that specification evolves during the process development lifecycle.
The DeltaV PKM Modality Library provides a pre-built, proven, customizable set of specification elements where the framework for the elements is already established for a given modality. This includes examples of underlying process steps, activities, key process parameters and critical quality attributes.
Prebuilt software frameworks cut months off development and organizational alignment efforts and establish digital foundations for faster future innovation. The modality library then facilitates seamless integration into execution systems to digitally transfer specification information into working recipes.
“Today’s life sciences innovators love PKM’s ability to shorten technology transfer but are continually searching for ways to improve alignment between process development and manufacturing recipe development,” said Nathan Pettus, president of Emerson’s process systems and solutions business. “The DeltaV PKM Modality Library enables a fully digital path to technology transfer, making the entire process faster, easier and more repeatable and reliable.”
About Emerson
Emerson is a global industrial technology leader that provides advanced automation. With an unmatched portfolio of intelligent devices, control systems and industrial software, Emerson delivers solutions that automate and optimize business performance. Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, Emerson combines innovative technology with proven operational excellence to power the future of automation.