EXPERTISE & TECHNOLOGIES ENABLE INCREASED QUALITY & AVAILABILITY, WITH REDUCED COSTS IN VALIDATED FACILITIES
27 April 2005 - Emerson Process Management

At INTERPHEX 2005, Emerson Process Management announced its consultative OpX Advantage Program and presented additions to its unprecedented portfolio of measurement, analytical, and control solutions for the Life Sciences industry. Emerson cited its broad and growing line of Life Sciences automation solutions as enablers of the continuing innovation that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration encouraged when it introduced its Process Analytical Technology initiative.

The OpX Advantage Program combines Emerson's 30-plus years of Life Sciences consulting and engineering, its industry-leading products, and its PlantWeb digital automation technology with Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing methodologies. The program helps manufacturers achieve operational excellence through the resulting implementation of innovative pharmaceutical development, manufacturing, and quality assurance projects.

In support of the special requirements of Life Sciences applications and the OpX Advantage Program, Emerson has taken its proven-reliable measurement, analytical, and control technologies and packaged them specifically for the Life Sciences industry by making them easier to configure, support, and operate.

At INTERPHEX, Emerson is displaying products from its complete line of Rosemount instrumentation that increases availability, reliability, and performance. The products of this portfolio include devices to measure pressure, temperature, level, and flow in biotechnology and pharmaceutical applications that require reliable, safe, and hygienic designs. Design features include:

Process contact surfaces constructed of FDA approved materials designed in accordance with 3A and EHEDG standards.

Crevice-free, stainless steel housings that provide cleanable and hygienic surfaces for critical hygienic applications.

"Batch-to-batch" repeatability, even after hundreds of CIP/SIP cycles.

Special packaging and calibration documentation designed to expedite installation qualification.

The INTERPHEX display includes the new Rosemount Analytical Endurance Model 403 water-for-injection conductivity sensor that is the first to feature a 16 micro inch Ra surface finish on all wetted surfaces, making it ideal for all sanitary applications. Also displayed, the Model 225-08 clean-in-place toroidal conductivity sensor incorporates U.S.P. Class VI PEEK material helping manufacturers to streamline their validation process. The new sensors help power the Life Sciences operations improvement advantages of Emerson's PlantWeb digital plant architecture.

Life Sciences customers are painfully aware that field measurements must demonstrate consistency. In fact, a significant amount of a company's validation documentation is created in order to verify the required level of consistency actually exists. A displayed technology to address consistency is the automation of calibration verification for Micro Motion Coriolis flowmeters using a new SNAP-ON application for the company's AMS Suite: Intelligent Device Manager. This unique solution enables Life Sciences customers to remotely verify flowmeter performance, and can eliminate the need for external flow calibration laboratories or the purchase of costly standard reference devices. Likewise, the Calibration Verification SNAP-ON application provides the necessary verification data required for validation documentation.

Measurement isn't the only thing requiring verification; the ability to verify that quarter-turn valves are working properly is also paramount to product quality.As displayed, Emerson's El-O-Matic FieldQ pneumatic actuators now include plug-and-play control modules, pushbutton calibration, on-board diagnostics, and digital-based control for rack-and-pinion actuators, all features typically associated with larger, more expensive actuators.

Technologies for meeting the FDA's 21 CFR Part 11, electronic records and signatures, offer significant improvements in accuracy and reliability over paper-based methods. Emerson is displaying one of these technologies: the AMS Suite: Intelligent Device Manager. This product addresses two key concerns of Life Sciences customers: product quality and change control. As regards to product quality, AMS Device Manager delivers meaningful, timely information to maintenance technicians and control room operators, thus permitting quicker awareness of instrumentation faults that may lead to unexpected process excursions. To manage change control, AMS Device Manager automatically manages and documents configuration settings of connected intelligent devices, streamlining maintenance activities and eliminating "people-induced" validation documentation errors.

Emerson's Baumann valve line is well known for high quality sanitary control and regulator products designed to meet 3A, FDA 21CFR, and USP CLVI requirements. Baumann products on display at INTERPHEX include the 84000 series sanitary control valves equipped with Fisher FIELDVUE DVC6000F digital valve controller with fieldbus communication; the 24000SVF control valve and new DVC2000 controller with pushbutton calibration and LCD interface; and a line of industrial control valves and positioners for use in cleanroom HVAC systems — plus Certified Factory Calibration that saves users the time and cost of calibration during installation.

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