Strategic partnership in pharmaceuticals

Pavilion Technologies and Thermo Electron combine technology and expertise for strategic partnership in the pharmaceutical industry to deliver complete solutions of software, analysers and consulting

Pavilion Technologies, a world leader in advanced process control (APC) and environmental compliance solutions, and Thermo Electron, a world leader in analytical instruments, today announced a worldwide strategic joint marketing agreement to deliver complete solutions of software, process analysers and consulting services to meet the pharmaceutical industry's Process Analytical Technology (PAT) needs.

Available immediately, the offering is intended to serve as a 'one-stop shop' for pharmaceutical customers seeking proven, best-of-breed technology solutions from analysers to multivariate data analysis to model-predictive control.

"The key to the success of PAT is the ability to analyse your process and identify sources of variability which may include process, product, or disturbance-related variables.

Organisations can then leverage this process understanding to continuously reduce that variability to cut costs, increase yield and enhance product quality," said John Blanchard, senior pharmaceutical analyst, ARC Advisory Group.

"Together, Pavilion and Thermo Electron provide a powerful solution that combines cutting-edge scientific and engineering knowledge with industry-proven technology solutions to minimise risk and maximise value to the pharmaceutical industry".

As part of the strategic alliance, Thermo Electron and Pavilion will offer a complete pharmaceutical solution that will enable manufacturers to leverage real-time analyser data to build robust process models, enhance process understanding and improve production performance.

The joint offering will include Thermo real-time process analysers, and Pavilion multivariate data analysis, Soft Sensor online analysers, model-predictive control, and predictive performance management software powered by Pavilion8.

The two-year agreement provides Thermo Electron pharmaceutical clients worldwide with access to Pavilion solutions.

"We are pleased to partner with a proven technology leader like Pavilion, whose deep industry expertise has helped leading manufacturers in numerous industries increase performance results and enhance quality assurance for more than 14 years," said Zafar Kamal, director of strategic marketing and new business development, Thermo Electron.

"In selecting the ideal portfolio of best-of-breed solutions which support the PAT vision, Pavilion clearly stood out for the strengths of its entire suite - from multivariate data analysis, online Soft Sensor support and model predictive control capabilities".

"Thermo provides leading pharmaceutical researchers and manufacturers with access to high-fidelity instruments.

Our solution allows Thermo clients to leverage the historic and real-time instrument data, analyse the process and identify ways to enhance the efficiency and productivity of the process," said Greg Jackson, vice president of business development, Pavilion Technologies.

"The combined Pavilion and Thermo Electron offering provides pharmaceutical customers with an ideal, integrated, end-to-end analytical technology platform for achieving today's PAT goals".

In addition to the pharmaceutical sector, the new combined technology offering will be available to other Thermo clients where real-time process monitoring, process understanding and control provide significant value.

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