Unite Manufacturing Teams With New Batch Tracking Solution for Shiftconnector^®

Andreas Eschbach, Founder and CEO of eschbach, said: “One of the leading causes of batch release delays is a lack of visibility across teams, leading manufacturing teams to be misaligned in their priorities, while negatively affecting planning around critical processes like testing. “By contrast, a shared view on batch status enables all teams, regardless of where they may sit in the production cycle, to accurately track a batch’s position from one end of the process to another. This allows any delays that may have knock-on effects to be anticipated and planned around, closing the gap between production, QA, and QC, and cutting daily release management routine tasks from hours to minutes, delivering measurable efficiency improvements.” 

These challenges detailed by Andreas are explored in eschbach’s latest whitepaper, Accelerating Batch Release with Digital Solutions, which helps map out the root causes of bottlenecks and how digital batch tracking can help solve them. The new batch tracking function fully integrates with the Shiftconnector^® Artificial Manufacturing Intelligence (SAMI) suite, allowing plant stakeholders to leverage the power of AI for further batch insight. For instance, operators can ask SAMI Chat, a conversational interface based on plant data, “which batches are currently in process and what’s their status?” SAMI Chat will then respond in natural language, providing an itemised list of batches with details on the batch, its current status, planned start and end, alongside other critical information.

Taking this one step further, users can ask SAMI Chat a range of other more complex queries, such as the nature of a delay, and then ask the AI to aggregate this data into a table or report for the operator. eschbach is also developing widgets for its batch tracking dashboards, which will provide AI-powered contextualised insights into delays at a glance. Andreas concluded: “Ensuring total visibility of batch status across teams is essential to increasing alignment between individual manufacturing departments. While this is only one piece of a larger puzzle, ensuring all teams are pulling in the same direction is critical to shortening release times and, in turn reducing time to patient for vital medicines.”

Find out how Shiftconnector^® can help accelerate batch release and eliminate delays. Accelerate Batch Release. Eliminate Delays

About eschbach

With its global headquarters in Southern Germany and its North America headquarters in Boston, MA, eschbach is the premier enterprise software developer for pharmaceutical, chemical and other Process Industry Manufacturing. Shiftconnector incorporates AI technology and helps manufacturing teams take charge of facility operations, process safety, asset performance, and production quality. Eschbach Transforms Digital manufacturing operations that helps managers, operators, and technicians to achieve the highest level of team communications. The award-winning solution is trusted worldwide by leading manufacturing companies such as Bayer, DuPont, BASF and Roche.