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News Release from: Emerson Process Management
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Team on 08 February 2006
Life sciences contract for new Indian
plant
Contract to supply digital automation architecture and services to new biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility in India.
Emerson Process Management has won a contract from Reliance Life Sciences to supply Plantweb digital automation architecture and services to its new biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility in India Reliance Life Sciences is a member of the Reliance Group, India's largest private sector enterprise
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 14 Oct 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The facility is the largest automation project to date in the life sciences industry in India.
Reliance selected Emerson for its reputation and experience in the field of life sciences.
The facility will use microbial and mammalian cell culture processes to manufacture therapeutic proteins.
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Emerson will provide engineering design, digital automation, process management, validation and commissioning for the project.
The company will install its Plantweb digital plant architecture, which has a track record of lowering installation costs, ensuring a fast startup and improving ongoing plant operations and maintenance.
The architecture will use Foundation Fieldbus communications to connect the company's Delta V digital automation system and AMS Suite: Intelligent Device Manager to smart field devices.
The resulting network of digital intelligence will extend throughout the plant, enabling project savings and improving operational performance.
Intelligent field devices from Emerson will include Rosemount pressure, temperature, level and flow transmitters, as well as Rosemount Analytical pH and dissolved oxygen sensors and transmitters, Micro Motion Coriolis flow and density meters, and Brooks flowmeters.
Reliance has adopted a fast track OEM construction approach for life sciences plants, and has chosen Emerson as a main supplier for the initiative.
Supporting the OEM approach, Emerson will design and project manage skid vendors as they build modular skids.
Emerson will use its modular automation approach that enables fast startup by quickly linking skids for effective communications when installed.
The fast and effective skid link-up results from building skids using the company's intelligent digital technology, including Plantweb architecture with Foundation Fieldbus communications and the Delta V system.
The OEM approach adopted by Reliance has been to create standard plant modules, with documents and drawings, based on known pre-tested process cells.
These are produced in parallel, and then all skids are integrated at the site to ensure automation consistency across the manufacturing floor, and provide a consolidated validation according to current good manufacturing practice.
"Reliance's new plant is the first fully automated life sciences plant in India," said Pradipta Sen, President of Emerson India.
"We are pleased that Emerson's advanced Plantweb technology will be a part of this groundbreaking project, which would advance the modernisation and growth of the life sciences sector in India". Request free introductory details about products from Emerson Process Management ...
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