In this article for European Pharmaceutical Manufacturer, Richard Porter, AspenTech Pharmaceutical Director looks at how automated technologies are helping pharma companies transform their manufacturing processes.

Feature engineering, state classification and best model selection can be complex, time-consuming tasks for data science teams. While building customized tools is often the first instinct, today’s Asset Performance Management (APM) applications with built-in industry expertise can help data scientists speed up this process to rapidly design and scale new solutions.

Pharma and biotech companies face a pivotal next step in addressing the increased complexity of production while balancing mounting cost pressures with the need to ensure product quality, security of supply and regulatory compliance.

Aspen Hybrid Models combine AI and first principles to deliver a comprehensive, accurate model more quickly without requiring significant expertise. Machine learning is used to create the model, leveraging simulation or plant data while using domain knowledge, including first principles and engineering constraints to build an enriched model without the need for modeling or AI expertise.

Artificial Intelligence of Things

Today, most industrial organizations are sitting on more data than they know what to do with. Legacy historians, dated workflow management tools and home-grown data transport solutions are ill-equipped to tackle real-world data-wrangling challenges.

This ARC Advisory Group report explains how AIoT is built for industrial companies looking for better ways to:

Tracey Countryman sat down with our blog editor to share industry insights and what she’s looking forward to at OPTIMIZE 2021.

In today’s ever-evolving global economy, Energy and Chemical companies need to operate with newfound agility to meet market demand and maximize margins. Aspen DMC3 Adaptive Control now embeds powerful AI Machine Learning algorithms to build seed models by simply mining historical data. View this video and learn how you can coordinate multiple APCs in closed-loop and optimize broad envelopes in real-time to align planning, scheduling, and operation, significantly reducing margin leakage and energy costs.

In the evolving landscape of carbon capture technology, there is much to learn from “first-movers” and innovators. Many of them will be speaking at OPTIMIZE 2021.