GE advances biotech production

GE Healthcare has installed a new automation system at its global headquarters in Uppsala, Sweden. The system – provided by Swiss firm ABB – is the third 800xA extended automation solution that has been installed at the Uppsala site, making it the world's most advanced facility for the production of protein separation media.

According to ABB, the control system "extends the scope of traditional control systems to include all automation functions in a single operations and engineering environment".

"ABB control systems have been our preferred choice of automation systems for a long time at the [Uppsala] site," said a GE spokesperson in-PharmaTechnologist.com

The system itself promises to deliver improvements in productivity and profitability—

• Providing even more useful features compared with existing systems
• Allow us to optimise the use of the installed equipment set-ups
• The regulatory-compliant system will control and monitor 4,000 input/output signals from tanks, reactors, valves, stirrers and other process equipment

One feature of the system which is available as an extension of the 800xA solution is 'Real-Time Production Intelligence' (Real-TPI), which allows plant manager to assess the overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) of production equipment and processes.

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