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• Personalization Status: It’s Complicated

  By Karen Langhauser, Chief Content DIrector

  In the 10 days following the news about Facebook’s data privacy breach involving political consultancy, Cambridge Analytica, Facebook shares dropped almost 18 percent.This was a prime example of consumers’ love/hate relationship with personalization. On the one hand, we’ve come to expect…

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• Making the Case for Wireless on the Production Floor

  By Brian Joe, Wireless Product Manager, Emerson Automation Solutions

  Pharmaceutical manufacturing plants, both full-scale production facilities and laboratories, are generally networked using IT platforms such as Ethernet and Wi-Fi. These are essentially office networks that have been extended into manufacturing environments to serve a variety of functions, but were…

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• Shrinking Big Pharma

  By Meagan Parrish, Senior Editor

  Bigger isn’t always better. In fact, the growing trend in pharma is looking at ways to shrink the industry’s plant-floor footprint down.A few months ago, Amgen announced plans to build a new “next-generation” manufacturing facility in Rhode Island, which will be modeled on the company’s…

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• Product Focus: Smarter Contamination Control

  By Meagan Parrish, Senior Editor

  The pharma industry is undergoing a period of major change as more companies shift their focus from mass producing generalized medications to finding innovative ways to deliver targeted therapies. With those changes comes the challenge of finding operational solutions for these new manufacturing…

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• What Life Sciences Firms can Learn From Other Industries About Optimizing Routine Document Production

  By Romuald Braun, Vice President of Strategy for Life Sciences at AMPLEXOR

  In fields with complex information needs, such as engineering, use of structured authoring is second nature – particularly in regulated industries. Organizations spanning automotive, aerospace manufacturers and power utilities have teams of people routinely coordinating structured content,…

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• For Industry-Wide Digitalization, Think Small

  By Evren Ozkaya, CEO, Supply Chain Wizard

  Predictions abound concerning pharma manufacturing’s more automated, data-centric future. Some forecasting focuses on looming serialization compliance requirements and their impact — both positive in terms of consumer safety and product security, and negative in terms of obligatory…

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