PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURER UNCOVERS SOURCE OF QUALITY ISSUES WITH HELP OF INFORMANCE

Packaging faults corrected, performance and capacity up and labor cost down.

REDWOOD CITY, CA - Informance International, a leader in manufacturing business intelligence and enterprise manufacturing intelligence solutions announces that a leader in health care products, medicines and vaccines has designated Informance as their strategic partner as they focus on manufacturing operations excellence to improve throughput and reduce labor costs. At the outset of the initiative, operations professionals identified specific reasons for poor performance. With Informance, business management was able to make informed decisions to enhance productivity without additional capital investment.

As Informance continues to help with operations improvement, this producer of some of the world’s most popular and best-known consumer health care products leverages the EMI company’s powerful analytics platform to address key operations issues across the plant network. For example, the global brands company was able to zero in on quality issues when the Informance solution pointed to specific packaging problems. As a result, the company discovered material defects with one supplier’s packaging products. Since making adjustments in materials, the machine doing the work is running smoothly and able to produce significantly more than previously. The more the company produces and sells without having to build more factories, means better product availability for customers, and greater profitability for the enterprise.

"Pharmaceutical companies face the same economic pressures as most manufacturers but they have the added burden of strict quality and compliance regulations," comments Sunil Singh, President and CEO of Informance. "Informance is proud to be at the forefront of the battle for operational excellence, helping these global health and personal care companies focus on efficiencies and improvement opportunities in factories and across the manufacturing network."

One example of Informance’s commitment to helping manufacturers achieve operational excellence is the company’s benchmark research across a number of industries including pharmaceutical, consumer packaged goods and others. Global manufacturers use the studies to understand how practices of best-in-class companies impact manufacturing performance, and gain insight and direction for their own benchmarking and operations excellence initiatives. To learn more about Informance benchmark studies, visit www.informance.com/PharmaStudy.