Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Pfizer Freiburg Plant - Industrial Engineering - Smart Manufacturing

 

An Essay on the Plant

https://books.google.co.in/books?id=5559DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA206#v=onepage&q&f=false

Pfizer Freiburg, Germany manufactures about 4.5B tablets and capsules annually, supporting millions of patients all over the world. The site offers expertise in oral solid process and product development, flexible volume manufacturing, leading packaging technologies, and global delivery. Freiburg stands out as one of the most future-oriented and digitally enabled pharmaceutical production sites with industry 4.0 digital processes and state-of-the-art-technologies, computer integrated manufacturing, and fully automated process and material flow.

https://www.pfizercentreone.com/manufacturing-network

Going continuous: accelerating the speed of tablet production

21-Mar-2018 

The shift from batch to “continuous” production could represent one of the largest paradigm shifts in pharma processing

 By miniaturising the equipment, the continuous process can be enclosed in a portable, modular facility, which can be shipped by truck to any location in the world and quickly assembled. Once up and running, the system will deliver the capability to transform powders into uncoated tablets in minutes, which can take days or weeks with current technology.

With lower upfront investment costs compared with traditional facility design and build approaches, lower energy and resource requirements, and enhanced quality, PCMM pod-based mini factories look to be the solution for many of the pharmaceutical industry’s flexibility needs. Additional benefits include increased OEE, optimised R&D (10 times less material use, 10 times faster than conventional batch equipment), multiple formulations and flexible batch sizes, and reduced cleaning costs and materials.

By expanding our production facilities at Freiburg, capacity is being increased, the annual production volume of tablets and capsules from 6.5 billion to around 10 billion.
https://www.manufacturingchemist.com/news/article_page/Going_conti_accelerating_the_speed_of_tablet_production/140958


Case Study

Pfizer Installs Feeding Systems For Continuous Manufacturing Operations
Source: Coperion & Coperion K-Tron
Source: Pfizer Manufacturing Deutschland GmbH, Freiburg
Coperion K-Tron has supplied two feeding systems to Pfizer Manufacturing Deutschland GmbH in Freiburg, Germany, as part of a project to expand their existing plant and switch to continuous production.
https://www.pharmaceuticalonline.com/doc/pfizer-installs-feeding-systems-for-continuous-manufacturing-operations-0001

Material Handling
 
Egemin automates Pfizer’s production logistics with AGV


Egemin recently sold an AGV system to Pfizer Freiburg. The system consists of 4 AGVs (Automated Guided Vehicles) that will deliver the ingredients for medicine production to 150 workstations, via the best possible route.
https://www.expo21xx.com/news/egemin-production-logistics-agv/

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