Digital transformation secures competitiveness

Granado Pharmácias sought to modernize its factories and production processes to secure the company’s competitive position in the marketplace through:

• Better integration between multiple production lines
• Tailored and flexible production
• Identification of bottlenecks
• Reduction of time to market
• Ensuring end-product quality and consistency

Apps Analytics and Services: AVEVA Historian and Batch Management*, Lifecycle Services
Edge Control: Modicon M580 and M340 PLCs, and EcoStruxure Process Expert (with customized library with situational awareness)
Connected Products: Altivar Process LV drives

• The innovative EcoStruxure Process Expert enables control and supervision in the same engineering, maintenance, and operations environment, unifying all devices, components, and accessories into a single tool.
• AVEVA Batch Management controls complex batching processes to further improve operations and production traceability, which helps to ensure consistently high product quality.
• AVEVA Historian stores all the manufacturing data, both historical and real-time, enabling Granado to build and visualize production reports.

By modernizing its systems and processes with an EcoStruxure for Food and Beverage solution, Granado Pharmácias achieved:

• 10-15% increase in production
• Simple and fast reconfiguration for new products
• Better quality products through improved processes and traceability
• Compliance with FDA standards
• Empowered and more efficient workforce
• Future-proof solution