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PELS arose from pharmaceutical packagers seeking ways to streamline their secondary and tertiary packaging operations. They see best practices and best-of-breed, multi-vendor integration as the solution.
PELS will be the subject of a working session on Friday, February 2, from 11:30 am to 1 pm, Meeting Room 104C at the Puerto Rico Convention Center in San Juan.
Defining the issues
The issues crystallized at a PELS briefing in December attended by managers from Pfizer, Merck, Johnson & Johnson and other pharma manufacturers with major installations in Puerto Rico. PELS spokesperson Zorn Momich, president of Z Automation, explained PELS as a coordinated effort on the part of packaging machinery suppliers to provide documentation, training, certification, validation and line integration in a cost-effective, simple, responsive and turnkey offer that plays well with the installed automation base.
These same issues emerged as priorities in the ensuing panel discussion. As a result, attendees urged the PELS group to come back a month later at Interphex to address a larger cross-section of the island's pharmaceutical community.
PELS arose from pharmaceutical packagers seeking ways to streamline their secondary and tertiary packaging operations. They see best practices and best-of-breed, multi-vendor integration as the solution.
PELS will be the subject of a working session on Friday, February 2, from 11:30 am to 1 pm, Meeting Room 104C at the Puerto Rico Convention Center in San Juan.
Defining the issues
The issues crystallized at a PELS briefing in December attended by managers from Pfizer, Merck, Johnson & Johnson and other pharma manufacturers with major installations in Puerto Rico. PELS spokesperson Zorn Momich, president of Z Automation, explained PELS as a coordinated effort on the part of packaging machinery suppliers to provide documentation, training, certification, validation and line integration in a cost-effective, simple, responsive and turnkey offer that plays well with the installed automation base.
These same issues emerged as priorities in the ensuing panel discussion. As a result, attendees urged the PELS group to come back a month later at Interphex to address a larger cross-section of the island's pharmaceutical community.
![Alison Bryant, senior consultant at Antea Group and communications director for the Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC), addressed the crowd at the[PACK]out.](https://img.healthcarepackaging.com/files/base/pmmi/all/image/2024/05/Alison_Bryant.6644005a513b0.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&fit=crop&h=167&q=70&w=250)
