HITACHI : Development of HITPHAMS Version 2.0: Powerful New Manufacturing Execution System for the Pharmaceutical Industry

	September 2007
	Industrial Systems

AUTHORS

Mamoru Matsumoto	Pharma and Biotech Systems Dept., Industrial & Logistics Systems Div., Total Solutions Div., Hitachi, Ltd.
Satoru Serizawa	MES/Environment System Dept., Electrical Control Systems Div., Information & Control Systems Div., Information & Telecommunication Systems, Hitachi, Ltd.
Jun Fujita	MES/Environment System Dept., Electrical Control Systems Div., Information & Control Systems Div., Information & Telecommunication Systems, Hitachi, Ltd.
Yasuyuki Suzuki	Industrial Systems Dept.2, Industrial Systems Div., Hitachi Information & Control Solutions, Ltd.
Yuki Yamaguchi	Solution Systems Engineering Dept.1, Solution Business Div., Hitachi Information & Control Solutions, Ltd.

OVERVIEW

The pharmaceutical industry is moving aggressively to adopt MESs to streamline and tighten their manufacturing operations in order to implement stricter manufacturing and quality controls. Hitachi, Ltd. has supported this movement with the development of HITPHAMS (Hitachi Pharmaceutical Plant Management System), a powerful MES package specifically designed for the pharmaceutical industry. MES packages were widely adopted in the latter half of the 1990s, but now hardware maintenance contracts are expiring and systems are being replaced one after another. Based on a survey of pharmaceutical companies that have already introduced MES packages, we found a strong demand for a system that is not dependent on Windows versions, supports record entry using a handheld PDA, and permits access from a Web browser. Responding to this feedback, Hitachi redesigned its MES package and come out with a new and more powerful Version 2.0 of HITPHAMS.

TO READ THIS ARTICLE

See PDF file for details(PDFformat, r2007_sep_002.pdf, 166KB)

RELEVANT SITES

	The Hitachi Hyoron (Japanese Only)
	HITPHAMS (Japanese Only)

KEYWORDS

MES, Manufacturing Execution System, HITPHAMS

PDF files are in Adobe's Portable Document Format. To view them you need Adobe(R) Reader(TM) by Adobe Systems Incorporated.