Honeywell’s Experion™ Process Knowledge System (PKS) for the Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) market provides a single platform for control, operation and reporting in a production plant. We can help ensure that your plant runs efficiently as planned and within the constraints of regulatory requirements.
Honeywell’s Experion system is highly flexible and can start with the automation of a single production unit. Business needs change rapidly in today’s market, and so our solution is easily adapted and developed to meet new requirements and reduce validation effort. This flexibility also means that your process can be automated with precise and accurate control while managing those parts of the operation that remain manual from the same system. We ensure that all the information about what you plan to make, together with what you actually make, is stored securely in a highly accessible way in a single, integrated system meeting pharmaceutical industry requirements for audit trails and record keeping. That one system can extend in the hierarchy from Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) integration down through Human Machine Interface (HMI) to controllers, subsystem interfaces and safety systems.
In the regulated pharmaceutical environment, the integrity and reliability of your automation system is particularly important for maintaining a view of the process and recording data for reporting and quality assurance. The Honeywell solution is designed for high availability in terms of both process control and data acquisition. When required, it can be fully redundant from transmitter or valve to HMI. Extensive diagnostics ensure that any problems are quickly identified.
Many API operations involve batch or discontinuous processes. For such plants, where large numbers of different products are manufactured with flexible paths, we offer TotalPlant® Batch (TPB). TPB is a software product that can optimize throughput, reduce manual input, and in conjunction with Honeywell’s Uniformance® PHD, provide powerful reports on each batch—or on what is happening in the plant across any number of batches. Electronic batch reports can be produced meeting regulatory requirements such as 21 CFR Part 11.