Feature article: The Ballroom of modular production - MES & MTP

Flexible, reliable, efficient, and easy to operate—this is how ideal production facilities are described. The pharmaceutical industry, therefore, relies on modular concepts and digital technologies, having long recognized that a holistic view of its production is necessary to prepare for future market requirements. This need for more robust, comprehensive processes has led to a heightened focus on manufacturing management systems.

Current trends such as personalized medicine are leading to increasingly volatile markets, highly individualized products, and smaller batches. At  the same time, an ever shorter time-to-market is required. In response to this growing demand for flexibility, the pharmaceutical industry has taken to modularizing its plants.

Such innovative concepts allow the quick and efficient assembly of production plants from individual modules of different functions. In this way, self-sufficient plant modules can be interconnected to enable plug-and-produce results according to requirements.