Achieving Compliance and Manufacturing Excellence in the Life Sciences

As reported recently in the news, and barring any further safety issues, manufacturers in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and medical devices sectors should see strong revenue growth throughout the rest of this year. The growth is driven in large part by the introduction of new drugs and technologies used to treat previously untreatable conditions. But with these opportunities come challenges:

1. The costs of FDA Regulation 21 CFR Part 820, Part 11 and other regulatory compliance mandates erode margins.

2. Legislative changes, patent expirations, recall challenges and brittle supply pipelines pressure bottom line growth.

3. Public perception about the “high cost of healthcare: drive scrutiny, potential regulation, and encourage competition domestically and internationally.

To leverage the forecasted revenue growth, you need to drive bottom line growth. So while satisfying compliance requirements, you must improve the productivity of your production operations and create agility throughout your supply network. You need to optimize your investments in product design, decide what to source and what to build, and respond quickly to short-term changes in demand or shifts in your markets.

To that end, we invite you and your coworkers to spend sixty minutes via this free webcast session and find out how Becton Dickinson achieved “lean compliance,” by leveraging their existing IT infrastructure, lean techniques, and manufacturing solutions from Apriso, to improve their performance. This is a first of two webcasts focusing on how you can transform your company into a formidable presence, turn the hype into reality and maximize your business success.



Duration: 45 minutes Presentation, 10 minutes Q&A

This informative session is designed for value-minded executives, plant managers, and implementers of corporate or plant-wide compliance and manufacturing excellence programs, who are working to grow their small to mid-sized businesses into agile e-businesses. In this first webcast, you’ll learn more about:

• When and where to utilize the best parts of lean, six-sigma and other excellence programs in your new or existing programs.
• How to leverage your existing ERP and IT infrastructure, and manufacturing solutions from Apriso to automate compliance tasks and improve the results of your excellence efforts.
• How Becton Dickinson, a leader in medical devices, has achieved “lean compliance.”

If you want fast, reliable results from technology, applications, and manufacturing excellence techniques – without disrupting your business or breaking the bank – we invite you and your peers and join us for an information-filled and interactive experience.

The Presenters

Lee Hudson
Manager, Manufacturing Information Technology
Becton Dickinson

Lee Hudson is the founder of and currently manages a group of software developers and process engineers charged with implementing manufacturing systems for Becton’s plants globally. The group was formed in 1979 at its research center in North Carolina, to investigate the application of microprocessor technologies on the factory floor. The effort resulted in the first manufacturing execution system for the company many years ago. Since then, Hudson’s group served a key role in BD’s implementation of several large projects including SAP and Apriso. Mr. Hudson originally joined the company’s Biomedical Engineering Department as a Designer, and a member of the team responsible for the design and fabrication of heart-lung machines, dialysis machines and other life support equipment and devices.

Mr. Hudson is a graduate of North Carolina State University, majoring in Engineering Operations and Philosophy.

Sheri S. Phillips
TOC Jonah, 6 Sigma Blackbelt
IBM Corporation

Sheri Phillips is an associate partner within IBM’s Supply Chain Management Practice. This practice is responsible for providing customers with solutions to streamline and optimize their supply chains. She has executed projects applying Theory of Constraints (TOC), Six Sigma, e-business Strategy, Business Process Reengineering, Continuous Flow / Lean Manufacturing and DesignFlow Techniques in the electronics, aerospace, general manufacturing and chemical & process industries.

Phillips has over 20 years business experience and 15 years in changing the way organizations execute their business. Methods applied include TOC, Drum-Buffer-Rope, Replenishment, Thinking Processes, Critical Chain Project, Resource and Portfolio Management, Lean concepts, continuous flow, organizational / job redesign, facilitation, Statistical Process Control, Design of Experiments and the TQM Process.

Ms. Phillips is a certified TOC Jonah & Six Sigma Blackbelt. She has an MBA degree from Amber University and a Bachelor of Sciences in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M.

Tom Comstock
Vice President of Marketing
Apriso Corporation

Tom brings 20 years of manufacturing software marketing and sales experience to Apriso. Most recently, Tom was VP of Product Marketing at Brooks Software, a $120M software division of Brooks Automation, which focuses on real-time execution software for high tech manufacturers. Previously he held VP of Marketing roles at Sequencia Corporation, a leader in PLM and Automation for batch manufacturing companies, and at Promis Systems, a leader in MES systems for semiconductor manufacturers. Tom also provided sales and marketing leadership to Palette Systems and worked in electronics manufacturing with Consolidated Micrographics. Tom received his Bachelor of Arts from UCLA, a Masters from UC Berkeley, and his MBA from Pepperdine.