Software collaboration

GE Healthcare is among one of the first customers that will implement this Plug & Produce solution. The “Shop Floor Integration for Life Sciences” module is a new addition to the ABB Ability Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) offering. At their manufacturing site in Uppsala, Sweden, which has one of the world's largest installed capacities for production of chromatographic resins, GE Healthcare will use the new approach to integrate the automation and equipment level for the production of a chromatography medium.

The new solution was presented at Werum IT Solution's annual User Group meeting in Lüneburg, Germany in October 2017. Since 1998, the event has brought together a global network of pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturing professionals.

The MES PAS-X from Werum will be integrated with ABB’s flagship Process Control System 800xA: - ABB and Werum have agreed on a long-term roadmap for an aligned offering - Customers will benefit from simplified operation - Faster Master Batch Record (MBR) creation - Joint deployment and validation approach The solution implemented at GE Healthcare will be globally available for sale starting in November 2017 as part of the new Shop Floor Integration Solution for Life Sciences. It provides integration between Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and 800xA Batch Management, the integrated Batch system of ABB Ability System 800xA. It includes features for automatic parameter assignment and automatic synchronization of 800xA Batch Management recipe procedures and MES. This automated integration significantly reduces the engineering effort of the integration especially with the high validation requirements in a GMP production environment.