Today's Automation Strategy: What must automation do to feed manufacturing's never ending need to improve performance? - ISA TECH 1999

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Additional Author: David Adler

How do you reduce total automation cost, increase the benefits from automation technology for manufacturing and development, and find time to collaborate with the information technologists implementing new ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems? In today's market driven environment, the reward for completing the last impossible automation project is to deliver the next project faster and cheaper. In the pharmaceutical industry, improving speed-to-market and manufacturing flexibility must be achieved to remain competitive. In order to increase ompetitiveness, manufacturing management has challenged every engineering discipline to increase Economic Value Added (EVA), by getting more value out of currently installed assets. In response to this challenge, the automation engineer must develop a good understanding of the business and a clear vision of how automation technologies contribute to EVA.

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