Packaging Execution Systems - Q&A
- What is PES?
- Why is there a need for a PES?
- How is PES implemented?
- What are the benefits of implementing PES?
- Is PES a Systech offering?
- Who are the players in the PES space?
A. PES seamlessly integrates critical and valuable packaging line information, functions, inspections, line management, serialization and performance measurements into a collaborative comprehensive productized offering.
A complete PES also communicates directly with an organization's manufacturing and enterprise system to allow data to be synthesized into actionable intelligence to make better-informed business decisions.
Q. Why is there a need for a PES?
A. The need for PES is directly related to addressing unique packaging line issues. Today, manufacturers are faced with many issues that include:
- Serializing products to provide a safe and secure supply chain
- Providing product documentation that enables track and trace and authentication of products.
These issues, in addition to increasing demands and the pressing need to operate more efficiently are defining the need for PES.
PES, a cousin to MES, provides capabilities that traditional MES systems do not provide. Traditional MES solutions were not specifically designed to handle the packaging process.
PES is a fully integrated highly robust productized offering that seamlessly integrates applications thereby ensuring interoperability between systems and data integrity. Interoperability and data integrity are critical to ensuring compliant serialization. PES also minimizes the number of solution providers, thereby lowering training cost, maintenance cost and total cost of ownership.
Q. How is PES implemented?
A. It is modular and designed to be implemented in its entirety or in a phased approach.
This allows pharmaceutical companies to add lines as needed and easily integrate functionality to the packaging process as required.
Q. What are the benefits of implementing PES?
A. The productized applications and modular design of PES makes it possible to quickly and cost-effectively establish an integrated solution in phased approaches.
- Flexible
- PES provides the ability to leverage existing investment in infrastructure as a direct result of the single platform integration architecture.
- Provides the opportunity to meet changing regulatory and/or market demands while lowering Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
- PES can adapt to various types of line equipment, efficiency demands, compliance and/or regulatory issues.
- Scaleable
- PES provides the ability to deploy minimum functionality in phases or full integration capabilities to EPCIS, ePedigree, MES and ERP.
- Manage investments over periods, ensuring Return on Investment (ROI)
- Provides consistent data throughput and data integrity
- Repeatable
- PES is easily repeatable line-to-line or plant-to-plant.
- Reduces design, deployment and associated training costs.
Q. Is PES a Systech offering?
A. No, PES is not solely a Systech offering. There are multiple vendors providing parts of a packaging execution system. Systech is unique in providing a completely productized packaging execution system.
Q. Who are the players in the PES space?
A. Companies who offer vision, line management, serialization, OEE analysis, and/or integration with enterprise systems.
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