"Sometimes," he said, "that means that we, as equipment owners, are forced to do the integrating that they don't do. It's not so much that they're reluctant to do it, I think in many cases they're just understaffed. Or they're just inherently more mechanically oriented than IT oriented. So their priority is equipment performance, while information needs take a back seat. We need them to be better at making information readily available, at keeping things transparent."
He also described a shift that has taken place where pharmaceutical packaging is concerned. "Until recently, investment has been focused on chemistry and ingredients rather than on optimizing packaging. But faced as we now are with mounting cost pressures, a shift is underway that makes us look more like other consumer packaged goods manufacturers. Now it's important that we have a handle on our packaging operations, and greater visibility into those operations is step number one."
--By Pat Reynolds, Editor, Packaging World
He also described a shift that has taken place where pharmaceutical packaging is concerned. "Until recently, investment has been focused on chemistry and ingredients rather than on optimizing packaging. But faced as we now are with mounting cost pressures, a shift is underway that makes us look more like other consumer packaged goods manufacturers. Now it's important that we have a handle on our packaging operations, and greater visibility into those operations is step number one."
--By Pat Reynolds, Editor, Packaging World
