Over the last number of decades, Ireland has secured its position as a global hub of manufacturing excellence in the biopharmaceutical industry. 

Under this pillar, BPCI members can engage in discussions centred on digitalisation, lean leadership, disruptive technological advances, pharma trends in lab connectivity, and BioPharma Business Services Operations in Ireland. Activities include knowledge sharing, audit findings, benchmarking, peer to peer learning and the facilitation of networking opportunities through industry initiatives, workshops, forums and webinars. 

How to get involved / Working groups

The group aims to bring together industry leaders to share best practices, explore the latest digital technologies, discuss workforce development, and leverage the ecosystem of research, technology, and funding opportunities in large molecule manufacturing. Group members rotate hosting the working group meetings, providing site tours and presentations on their latest digital transformation projects. The group is focused best-practice sharing for large molecule manufacturing, further Digitalisation & AI groups with other focuses are to be developed.

Key areas of interest:

  • Focus is on best practice sharing to share learnings
  • Lessons learned and how to improve next time around
  • Execution Systems
  • Advanced analytics – automation and processes
  • Addressing lack of common industry standards
  • Accelerated transformation program
  • Data gathering, accessibility of AI tools
  • Attract AI/dig investment in Ireland
  • Enterprise Automation and the use of GMP bots
  • AI in manufacturing e.g. predictive analytics for equipment failure
  • GMP Virtual Assistants
  • Equipment Digital Twins
  • Augmented Worker

Members that should get involved:

  • Companies that carry out in-house large molecule manufacturing
  • Members willing to actively contribute [peer-to-peer network] and demonstrate willingness to share their own experiences/learnings, including the openness to host meetings
  • Members in a senior/leadership position related to digitalisation and/or AI
  • Members who possess expertise in digital transformation in large molecule manufacturing

Lead by BioPharmaChem Ireland Senior Executive, lisa.goodman@ibec.ie

 

The operational excellence working group encourages the development, usage, scale-up, monitoring, and evaluation of best practices to drive a lean and continuous improvement culture. The group meets on a quarterly basis.

Key areas of interest:

  • Digitalisation/ Industry 4.0
  • Lean Leadership
  • Developing a Coaching Environment
  • Pharma Industry Trends in lab connectivity / data workflows Option 5
  • Disruptive technological advances.

Members that should get involved:

  • Technical Training & Development Lead
  • Process Engineer / Manager
  • Manufacturing Ops Manager

Lead by BioPharmaChem Ireland Deputy Director siobhan.dean@ibec.ie