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Providing quality healthcare while holding the line on costs continues to be a priority throughout much of the life sciences industry. Watching expenses is a critical task at Group Health as well, where the company’s Seattle facility handles mail-order prescriptions and serves as a central fill location for its 26 pharmacies located in both Washington and Idaho. Since adding a Maverick Enterprises UPM B/T (Universal Packaging Machine with Bottle and Tote infeed), Group Health has reduced its labor needs, improved efficiency within its confined 7,000 sq’ area, and readied itself to handle growing sales volume. In turn, those benefits help to hold down Group Health member costs.
In pharmaceutical firms and consumer-packaged goods companies in general, packaging may be the last place in the corporation that has not been Six-Sigma’d to death. Companies have been looking for ways to squeeze time and cost out of the manufacturing process and they’ve finally arrived at packaging’s door. In this article, Kent St. Vrain of Paxonix reports on Six Sigma benefits, economic justification, and streamlining the process of getting product more quickly to market.
* Pas-X Pharma V2.3 and Pas-X Biotech V2.2 updated software suites are designed for user-friendly operation and enhanced functionality for pharmaceutical and biotech applications
* standard package for Pas-X includes interfaces to analysis tools, offering comprehensive functionalities for visualization, evaluation, and interpretation of data
* biotech version now features a standard interface to SCADA systems on an OPC basis (OPC DA)
