CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, APRIL 19, 2007 - Bart Reitter, GE Fanuc Global Industry Manager Life Sciences, will be speaking at INTERPHEX 2007, being held at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City, April 24-26, 2007. Reitter’s presentation will discuss “PAT: A Real World Successful Drying Application.” The session will take place on Wednesday, April 25 at 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. This session will be a discussion of a successful deployment of GE Fanuc's PAT Solution deployed to deliver measurable results to a contract manufacturer of bulk active pharmaceuticals and advanced intermediates.
Outcome of the project includes enhanced visibility into the drying process and a dramatic reduction in product drying time. Reitter will be sharing the podium with GE Fanuc customer John Iapichino, Instrument & Controls Engineer for AMRI/Organichem Corporation, who is using GE Fanuc’s Proficy RX, PAT software solution. “As PAT deployments grow,” said Reitter, “so do the number of instruments and software applications. The quantity and type of data also grows significantly. It is imperative that organizations have a robust data infrastructure to support those deployments.
Consideration needs to be given not only to spectral data acquired from the instrument, but also to process, batch, alarm and event data as well. With the goal of PAT being a comprehensive understanding of the process, it is important to build out a data infrastructure that can acquire, store and analyze all of that disparate data.” GE Fanuc is a leader in providing manufacturing solutions to the Life Sciences industry.
The company’s PAT offering, comprised of Proficy RX, Proficy Historian, Proficy HMI/SCADA iFIX and Proficy Real Time Information Portal is a unique software solution that provides standardized control and networking of multiple instruments, preprocessing of analytical data ensuring similar data formats and protocols, robust storage of process, spectral, batch, alarm and event data, operator interface capability and reporting and analysis tools. GE Fanuc will be exhibiting at INTERPHEX 2007 in Booth 2300.