Smart City Express: 47 Airports and 2 Heliports

 

AENA is in charge of the civil air navigation in Spain that involves the management of 47 airports and 2 heliports. In passenger count, AENA is the world’s leading airport operator. In fact, just the last month of November, AENA has served over 12,000,000 passengers.



 

That kind of volume requires a certain amount of reliability. For the control of its facility management system, AENA has standardized on Wonderware.

We will be featuring the Barcelona El Prat Airport in a success story video. While waiting, you can visit the following websites:

1. The Barcelona El Prat Airport Written Success Story
2. The Wonderware Smart City software solution page
3. Lane's Smart City Blog
4. Wonderware Spain's Website

Take care,
Jay

Smart City Express: Airport Baggage Handling

The Automated Luggage Transport System (SATE) manages the movement and delivery of all checked-in items at the Barcelona El Prat Airport. It is one of the most important sections of the airport.

By connecting SATE to Wonderware, the Barcelona El Prat Airport has one of the lowest lost-luggage rates in Europe.

We will be featuring the baggage handling system at El Prat in the success story video so wait for it. In the mean time you can visit the following websites:

1. The Barcelona El Prat Airport Written Success Story
2. The Wonderware Smart City software solution page
3. Lane's Smart City Blog
4. Wonderware Spain's Website

Take care,
Jay

Smart City Express: The Barcelona El Prat Airport

 

This is the central control room of AENA's Barcelona El Prat Airport. They use a million I/O Wonderware System Platform to control everything from baggage handling to runway lights.

 

I was there last week to shoot the success story video which is hopefully coming out in the new year. Watch out for it but in the mean time you can visit the following websites:

1. The Barcelona El Prat Airport Written Success Story
2. The Wonderware Smart City software solution page
3. Lane's Smart City Blog
4. Wonderware Spain's Website

I'll be back soon to finish the Fujirebio success story series.

Take care,
Jay

1,100 hours per year are saved at Fujirebio

Fujirebio makes biomarkers (i.e., blood tests) and its core competency is in the oncology area so its products are mainly centered around cancer testing. The product it manufactures annually is quite considerable.  At their Malvern, Pennsylvania plant, they produce about 75 million tests that are then distributed throughout the world. 

The solution is completely paperless and provides electronic record collection with electronic signatures while maintaining 21 CFR compliance and ISO 9001 and 13485 certification

 

What makes the solution at Fujirebio unique?

The EMS provides us a way of archiving data and it allows us to trend the way that our equipment is operating to make sure it’s staying within specification and up to our standards. 

Josh Zimmer
Quality Engineer

What makes the solution unique?

1. It is a complete paperless system with electronic records and electronic signatures
2. It generates18 Monthly Department Reports for “Review By Exception” 
3. It routes reports for review and approval via the Wonderware Workflow software

More information

In my next post, I will talk about what going paperless did for Fujirebio. In the meantime, you can check out the following:

1. Wonderware Workflow
2. Wonderware System Platform

Take care,
Jay

Fujirebio: from a 15 hour review to just minutes

 

“At Fujirebio, we are looking to take advantage of our electronic systems. We installed the equipment monitoring system to electronically capture data from Fujirebio’s temperature-controlled areas. The new monitoring system also provides the company with a scalable infrastructure which we can implement other electronic data capture projects as we go forward.”

Mike Koch

Vice President, Supply Chain

 

A great start at Fujirebio

 

A major milestone was achieved at Fujirebio Diagnostics on July 1, 2013 when the manual paper-based process of periodically recording temperature readings for specific GMP-related equipment was officially replaced by a new computerized system.

 

“Before the EMS system went in, I was spending about 15 or more hours manually reviewing the GMP packs. After the system, I went from hours to minutes. The key benefits of the system are the electronic signatures with the review by exception, and not having to worry about missing papers or chart recorders. The system has just made my life a whole lot easier.”

Rachael Vinjamuri, Lead Manufacturing Document Analyst

 

Fujirebio: innovation always starts with an idea

The creation of the Electronic Initiative at Fujirebio was triggered by a few challenges in the Pennsylvania plant, mainly on the following:

• A significant amount of time is spent each day manually reviewing reports
• The existing paper-based system was time-consuming and vulnerable to reporting errors