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We have a solution for everything – and more importantly: they can all be connected through our unique Körber Ecosystem. In our current seven areas of expertise, we are at your disposal with our comprehensive know-how.

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Software solutions

Software solutions

With our PAS-X MES - on premise or cloud-based - and our software solutions for analysis, track & trace, networked factories, and intelligent packaging, we are the world's leading supplier and partner to the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. With our holistic understanding and use of digitalization, you remain future-proof and combine digital innovation with sustainability.

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Handling systems

Handling systems

Looking for perfectly designed production lines that reduce operational complexity, can adapt quickly to changes in the pharmaceutical industry and work seamlessly with your software and machinery? We are specialists for complete handling systems for pharmaceutical and medical products. Our solutions are decisive in the field of contactless and safe transport of e.g. glass syringes.

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Inspection machines

Inspection

As the world's leading inspection expert, we develop solutions for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. Our range of products extends from AI-supported, high-performance machines and semi-automatic machines to laboratory units and inspection applications for in-process control. As thought leaders in the field, we always make sure that machines and software speak the same language.

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Packaging machines

Packaging machines

We are a leading supplier of packaging machines for liquid and solid pharmaceutical and medical products. With our blister, sachet and stick packaging machines we offer solutions for primary packaging. Our side and topload cartoners set standards worldwide for secondary packaging. Our ecosystem approach ensures that all machines, software, and other components operate harmoniously and perform at the highest level.

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K.Pak Topload Case Packer

Introducing our latest solution from Körber; the K.Pak Topload Case Packer! Created specifically for the pharmaceutical industry, the K.Pak solution provides operator-friendly machines to complete any production line. Our solution focuses on innovative technology, high-quality design and expert handling and packaging of your product. It’s time to start connecting the dots with Körber!

Packaging solutions

Packaging solutions

As long-standing specialists, we develop packaging solutions for innovative and high-quality secondary pharmaceutical packaging made of cardboard. We offer you solutions for counterfeit protection, standard folding boxes and much more.

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Consulting

Consulting

Our experts will advise you during the analysis of your requirements, show you optimization potential and support you during the implementation of projects in all areas of the pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industry. Our aim is to achieve holistic optimization for your factory of excellence.

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Services

Services

You need help with a specific product or have questions about one of our areas of expertise? Körber is your forward-looking navigator to excellence. We provide data-led, proactive advice and services to improve what is needed to scale and evolve towards your factory of excellence.

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Martin Brillowski

How Werum PAS-X MES consultants successfully support customers in a completely remote world

“Delivering the difference in pharma” – that is our commitment to our customers, especially in the current situation that we all are facing since more than a year. The Covid-19 pandemic changed so much and is affecting each of us, be it in our private or working life where we need to get used to the “new normal”.

However, what’s the “new normal” for our customers and MES consultants, used to be on-site, travelling around the world and supporting pharma and biotech companies in the implementation and operation of Werum PAS-X MES? 

Software consultants at Körber Business Area Pharma usually support PAS-X implementations from the beginning to the end, guiding the customers aiming for a smooth and successful project. One of the most important roles is analyzing customers’ business processes and user requirements and to map them according to PAS-X functionality. The task is to develop the solution with our customers, ensuring that the business process and requirements are covered using the full potential and all benefits of PAS-X following our established best practices. 

This activity is normally performed in intensive full-day workshops over a few weeks with different topics, such as QA processes, equipment management, material handling, and of course, the production process itself where the related experts and stakeholders are providing their input for a proper assessment and evaluation. 

MES consulting goes remote

To transfer these face-to-face activities into a remote approach for the benefits of our customers has been a challenge, but nothing that prevented our consultants to achieve the target of high-quality solutions for our pharma and biotech customers, scattered around the world. For a remote approach, we are using online platforms and tools to communicate and document the progress, having full traceability and transparency of the progress and outcome for the customers. Additionally, we use interactive tools to engage with our customers to get their valuable and needed feedback and make it a memorable and fun experience. This way, we also ensure that the material stays ingrained in their minds. 

In a remote “Sandbox” system, demonstrations and MBR prototyping are executed simultaneously for proof of concept solutions even without having a system installed on customer site. Online whiteboards as well as applying a flexible schedule with, for instance, half-day sessions are completing the setup for successful remote workshops. Moreover, due to the high focus of the customers´ workshop participants during online meetings, we find that conducting workshops to dedicated topics can be as productive in virtual meeting rooms as being in a meeting room on-site. Hence, one of the key success factors to a smooth project implementation, i.e. delivering our best practice PAS-X content packages including the related consultancy, is still ensured.

MBR design is the turning key

Another challenging task is the MBR design: creation of the product batch records (recipes) in Werum PAS-X MES is much more than just a transfer of the paper specification 1:1 into the system. This is because it’s not a simple “paper on glass” concept – it’s about optimizing and improving the manufacturing processes for the operators on the shop floor, while having a strong user guidance via clear electronic work instructions and workflow enforcement to achieve “Right First Time”. To design the workflow and instructions including all process parameters and values, a close collaboration with the process owners, subject matter experts and operators is required to get a good understanding of the production process to identify the improvement possibilities, which can be automation of work steps and their documentation. 

The big advantage for our customers especially during remote sessions where the consultants cannot see the business process and visit the manufacturing site is that our consultants have an excellent process knowledge and experience of MBR design within the pharma industry. This makes it easier to design an MBR from hundreds or even thousands kilometers away. Additionally to our design guidelines, which guarantee an effective design structure, we use our PAS-X process libraries content packages. These are already predefined recipe building blocks representing the entire process and its sub processes, and designed based on our extensive industry expertise and experience, hence speeding up the recipe creation process for our customers. As a result, this enables seamless manufacturing and fast delivery of life-saving medicines to the market.

Overall, we tackled the challenges coming with the “new normal”, developing, adjusting and improving ourselves, working together with our customers to ensure a smooth implementation and operation of Werum PAS-X MES at their production sites. We are delivering the difference in pharma – no matter if on-site or remote.

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