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Process Control and Monitoring Systems
News Release from: Citect | Subject: CitectSCADA Batch
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 26 July 2004
CitectSCADA Batch aids regulatory
compliance
The introduction of a batch management option to CitectSCADA enhances the capability to provide regulatory compliance and reduced operational risk in all processing and manufacturing operations
The introduction of a batch management option to CitectSCADA enhances the package's ability to provide regulatory compliance and reduced operational risk in all processing and manufacturing operations right across industry The new option also enhances the ability of CitectSCADA to provide the integration platform and source of real time monitoring and control that is essential for success in today's rapidly expanding e-manufacturing sector
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 10 Dec 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The introduction of CitectSCADA Batch makes it easier for regulated manufacturers from the food and beverage, chemicals and pharmaceuticals industries to comply with increasingly stringent regulations, such as GAMP, GMP4 and FDA 21 CFR Part 11.
Designed with dual redundancy to safeguard production, the Batch module provides a comprehensive system with which users can model their plant floor, execute parallel processing of recipes and control up to 99 independent batches simultaneously.
The module also links to business systems for better tracking and tracing of materials, stock levels, plant utilisation and supply chain management, as well as enabling the control of basic operations from any CitectSCADA client/ server.
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In addition to its role in providing general industry-wide benefits, Citect Batch product enhances the ability of CitectSCADA to provide the integration platform for e-manufacturing strategies.
Packages such as the Citect CitectSCADA are absolutely fundamental to e-manufacturing strategies, with the latter's emphasis on seamless integration and real time monitoring and control of events.
The ability of CitectSCADA to collect plant data centrally - from anywhere on a network - greatly improves the ability of managers to assign work based upon which plant can deliver the quickest response or the lowest cost of production at a particular point in time.
In addition, centralised real time information gathering enables e-manufacturing companies to improve their methods of assigning costs to individual plants, analysing energy usage and trends and assigning orders to take advantage of fluctuations in energy costs.
Although new to the UK, CitectSCADA Batch is already well proven in Germany, where it has provided many benefits in the cosmetics, food and beverage and pharmaceutical industries.
In one cosmetics applications Batch has achieved an increase in productivity, coupled with a reduction of staff, by enabling control and monitoring to be centralised in one control room.
Batch is also providing the means for one well-known German manufacturer of pharmaceuticals to achieve validation to FDA CFR part 11, and, as a redundant system, is providing the means for a food and beverage company to ensure the safety of its personnel and equipment. Request a free brochure from Citect ...
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