The benefits
Following the implementation of our solutions, Octapharma has seen tangible benefits:
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In 2022, Octapharma aimed to report alarms reliably and efficiently to maintenance teams to improve reliability and responsiveness in its production environment.
Safety
Continuous process and production environment monitoring
Responsiveness
Notifications are sent to maintenance employees' phones
Reliability
900 alarms reported monthly
The support of a partner like E’nergys, an expert in intelligent building management, was essential for establishing and executing a clear roadmap while actively onboarding employees in the process. From solution interfacing to the technical roadmap, we were impressed by E’nergys’ responsiveness and involvement.
BENJAMIN TYLINSKI
– HEAD OF OPERATIONAL AUTOMATION
Delivery:
2022
Sector
Pharmaceutical industry
Background.
For 40 years, Octapharma has been manufacturing plasma-derived medicines to meet the needs of patients and the medical profession in 118 countries. This industrial group specializes in three key therapeutic areas: hematology, immunology, and emergency medicine. Octapharma is the world’s fourth-largest operator in blood-derived medicinal products (BDMs), with 45 subsidiaries & offices, 9,900 employees, 5 production facilities and 180 plasma collection centers in Europe and the United States. To increase immunoglobulin production, the Group is investing in its Lingolsheim pilot plant to double its production capacity by 2025.
Goals
Octapharma relies on the expertise of E'nergys to:
Reliably and efficiently report alarms to maintenance teams
Improve reliability and responsiveness in its production environment
Our response
80 Trend Control Systems PLCs, featuring ease of installation and transmission reliability, are ideally distributed over the two production and raw materials storage facilities. Built into electrical cabinets, these PLCs, using the BAC Net protocol on a TCP/IP network, for BMS, AHU (Air Handling Unit), White Rooms and Heat Pumps, are supervised and monitored by the IQvision solution. A new supervision architecture was implemented, prioritising the collection of alarms at source; ALERT and IQvision features were deployed on two different servers and networks. The 900 monthly alarms – covering everything from lighting status to temperature and humidity fluctuations – are reported to the ALERT software, which instantly notifies maintenance and on-call staff via their mobile devices. The new, highly efficient and resilient supervision architecture allows Octapharma Lingolsheim to continuously monitor its processes and production environment, ensuring a swift response to any alerts. Maintenance operators can also remotely manage cleanroom cooling and ventilation to prevent any drift of more than 1-2 degrees off the setpoint.
The solutions implemented.
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