NEW YORK, NY, USA (INTERPHEX 2007 CONFERENCE) - APRIL 24, 2007 - Invensys Process Systems and Centric Software announced the availability of an application that coordinates the management of the regulated validation process in the medical device, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical industries.In partnership with Centric Software, Invensys Validation Technologies developed the validation application on Centric's industry-leading Product Intelligence software. This application enables life science companies to automate the documentation of validation processes to help reduce the time required to obtain FDA validation for new process plants.
The critical validation process documents all evidence that a system is performing according to exact specifications and that all related equipment is implemented and tested correctly. "As consultants focused on the life sciences sector, our goal is to help our customers use technology to create efficiencies in the compliance process and speed new products to market," said Mike Howden, Director Global Business Systems Solutions, Invensys Validation Technologies. "Because Centric's Product Intelligence technology tracks the history of documents from many sources right out of the box, we saw that the technology could also be used to give our clients an automated solution for validation processes.""
Using their deep industry knowledge and expertise in technology and compliance, Invensys Validation Technologies has created a truly unique automated solution for life sciences companies that will alleviate the pressure from compliance with validation regulations," said Chris Groves, chief executive officer, Centric Software. "We look forward to working with Invensys to apply the power of Product Intelligence to a critical industry challenge." Centric's Product Intelligence applications deliver complete visibility into the live product, project, and financial information pulled from multiple systems, combined with information entered directly into the applications.
The project execution capabilities coordinate the project, process, and documentation needs of distributed project teams.Invensys Validation Technologies provides innovative, regulatory compliant solutions, products and services for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, cosmetic, contract and device industries, providing regulatory-compliant process automation, legacy system migration, system integration, collaborative engineering, manufacturing, and other solutions for the supply chain.
About Centric Software, Inc. With Product Intelligence solutions from Centric Software, global executives and multidisciplinary teams collect all relevant information for any product or capital program initiative, decide on the appropriate action, execute on the initiatives, and assess progress against business goals. Global enterprises, such as Bristol-Myers Squibb, Watson, Mediammune, Coleman, Emerson, Moen, Hamilton Sundstrand, Siemens, Timex, Volvo, Iowa State University and others, use Centric's solutions to achieve top line revenue growth, direct cost reductions and insight into capital programs. Customers represent multiple industries, including aerospace, automotive, consumer goods, AEC/owner operator, life sciences, consumer electronics and universities.
About Invensys
Invensys is the world leader in industrial asset performance management, a strategy designed to help today's industrial enterprises to effectively balance the availability and utilization of their production assets to match changing business requirements. In addition to its rapidly expanding Global Solutions and Performance Management services groups, Invensys' automation businesses includes industry-leading brands such as Foxboro, Triconex, SimSci-Esscor, Avantis, Validation Technologies, and Wonderware, whose products are installed in more than 100,000 plants across the world. These range from small hybrid and batch plants to the world's largest upstream projects, refineries, gas plants, petrochemicals plants, power plants, and pulp and paper mills.
The Invensys Group is headquartered in London and is listed on the London Stock Exchange, with approximately 30,000 employees working in 60 countries.