Integration Of Quality Management And Manufacturing Automation Systems: The Key To Enabling Quality By Design

By Steve McCarthy, Vice President of Digital Innovation, Sparta Systems

In the Life Sciences industry, increasing complexity continues to drive digital transformation. Manufacturers are faced with quality anomalies that can delay product release by hundreds of hours. Often, quality management systems rely on manual processes for data transfer, which proves to be inefficient, hinders visibility, creates data integrity concerns, and causes lengthy delays. Despite the growing application of continuous process verification, many such programs do not utilize real-time automation data for verification. This limits quality by design (QbD) value, increases compliance risk, and threatens supply chain continuity.

QbD is enormously valuable but tends to be underutilized, siloed, and not operationalized. Too often, it is an exercise executed during the early stages of product development, but it was intended to be dynamic and increase in value across the lifecycle of a product.

The combination of Sparta Systems and Honeywell functionality is changing that. Learn how the integration of Honeywell Experion and TrackWise Digital is increasing the value of QbD through integrated quality and batch operations, real-time CPP alerts and corrective action guidance, and process context for quality investigations.