Case Study: a major pharmaceutical company expands production efficiency with Advantive InfinityQS

Expand Production without Expanding the Plant

A major pharmaceutical company faced the challenge of improving efficiency and expanding production capacity at a primary facility to manufacture new products without undertaking a costly physical expansion of the plant. To meet this goal, they partnered with Advantive and utilized its InfinityQS ProFicient solution on a limited basis.

Advantive's solution involved an in-depth gap analysis which revealed the plant was only using ProFicient at 10% capacity. By rolling the solution out facility-wide and piloting its Data Management System (DMS) and Data Collection Service (DCS) software, Advantive enabled the automation of data collection for strategic analysis. This provided managers with a clear view of overall operating efficiency, allowing them to increase capacity and profits, reduce waste by improving line efficiency, better understand defects, and automate manual processes. The results positioned the plant to serve as a global template for statistical process control, all achieved without a major capital investment.