automation
Download! EPM's October 2018 issue is available
The October issue of @EPM_magazine is available for download with all the regulars and features on tablet formulation, drug delivery, lab automation and clinical trials. Read more
What's the future of lab automation?
Lab automation has come a long way since the days of industrial robots, with new advancements increasing efficiency between systems and workers. Peter Harris, HighRes Biosolutions, discusses how far the sector has moved and what the future holds. Read more
How automation will transform the lab of the future
Nick Lynch, consultant at The Pistoia Alliance discusses how technology, including artificial intelligence (AI), can help automate the lab and accelerate outcomes. Read more
Brave new world: A creative approach to AI
Machine learning offers considerable potential for streamlining and transforming routine information processes in life sciences — but could more creative applications of artificial intelligence take things further still? AMPLEXOR’s Siniša Belina asse Read more
New training course for robotics and automation launched by EEF
EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation, has launched a new training course within the area of robotics and automation. Read more
Automation for the people: How manufacturing execution systems will help grow personalised medicine
Here, Trevor Marshall, director of global engineering at Zenith Technologies, goes into detail about how integrating and automating cell therapy production with MES will help grow the personalised medicine sector and ultimately benefit patients Read more
German packaging specialist opens first subsidiary in China
Packaging specialist, Gerhard Schubert, has revealed that it has opened its first subsidiary based in China and will feature its market launch during ProPak China, taking place in Shanghai this month (July 2018). Read more
The top five tweets: From MedTalk podcast to a lab automation — what are EPM readers viewing this week?
Here we count down the top five tweets from @EPM_magazine that have gained the most impressions this week, taken from Twitter analytics. Read more
Age of automation — what are the advantages in pharma packaging?
Head of operations at Sharp Clinical Services, Dave Wilson, reveals how automating packaging lines can benefit clinical trial supply and what should be considered before introducing new technology. Read more
Web-based system offers automation of entire validation lifecycle
TraceLink has unveiled its web-based offering that automates the entire validation lifecycle of the Life Sciences Cloud on an ongoing basis. Read more
Integral automation: Investment in automation is crucial, notes GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare completes a strategic minority investment and fills a space in its cell therapy production with an acquisition. Read more
Digital discovery: IMA unveils new technologies
At Interpack 2017, IMA will be presenting its new machines and processing lines, along with a dedicated area to IMA Digital, featuring projects driving towards the digitisation of factories. Read more
Strict but supple: The potential changes industrial automation can offer
Robert Harrison, pharmaceutical industry manager of industrial software expert COPA-DATA, explains how industrial automation solutions could change the face of biopharmaceutical manufacturing in the years to come. Read more
Festo demonstrates pharma automation at Making Pharmaceuticals
Festo, a supplier of automation technology for the pharmaceutical industry, will be showcasing its pneumatic, handling and positioning, process automation and control technologies at Making Pharmaceuticals Read more
Multi-Channel Arm Delivers High-Throughput Nanolitre Pipetting at FMP
Scientists working at the Leibniz-Institute for Molecular Pharmacology (FMP) in Berlin, Germany, are benefitting from the low-volume pipetting capability of a MultiChannel Arm (MCA) 384 for siRNA and small molecule screening. Read more
Astech Projects Demonstrates Picker Robot
Robotics and automation supplier Astech Projects is pleased to be exhibiting its latest pharmaceutical technology services within the P-MEC product zone of CPhI Worldwide. Visitors from over 140 countries attend P-MEC Europe and its co-located... Read more
Award-Winning Robotics and Automation Supplier Comes of Age
Astech Projects celebrates its eighteenth anniversary on 18 July 2013. The company was started with the founders’ vision to be ‘recognised as one of the world’s best’ in the design and supply of custom robotics and automation for use in advanced... Read more
Control Platform Allows for Simpler Automation
Aerotech’s new Ensemble LAB control platform makes it easier than ever to automate laboratory and light industrial manufacturing applications. The full-colour touchscreen display enables quick access to all the core functionality while providing... Read more
