B. Braun Melsungen AG는 의료 시장을 위한 세계 최고의 솔루션 제공 업체 중 하나입니다. 제약 및 의료 기술 회사는 45개 지역에서 마취, 집중 치료, 심장학, 체외 혈액 치료 및 수술용 제품을 제조합니다. 병원, 일반의 및 요양 시설 등이 그 고객입니다. 1839년 Hesse Melsungen의 약국으로 시작한 이 가족 사업은 단 몇 세대 만에 글로벌 기업으로 발전했습니다.
유럽에서 가장 현대적인 주입 솔루션 생산
매년 유럽 전역에서 6억 개 이상의 주입 용액 용기가 사용됩니다. 그 중 1/3은 Melsungen에서 생산한 것입니다. 주입 솔루션은 70년 이상 이곳에서 제조 및 추가 개발되었습니다. 2005년에 Melsungen의 새로운 생산 시설인 Pfieffewiesen 공장이 설립되었습니다. 그 이후로 B. Braun은 LIFE(Leading Infusion Factory Europe) 분야에서에서 유럽의 가장 현대적인 주입 솔루션 생산 시설을 운영하고 있습니다.
의약품은 어떻게 더 효율적으로 생산할 수 있을까요? B. Braun에게 이것은 새로운 3챔버 백의 주입 솔루션에 결정적인 질문이었습니다. LIFE는 절대적으로 최소화된 다운 타임과 최적의 시스템 가용성을 보장해야 합니다. Festo 전문가들은 기존 생산 시설의 전체 가치 사슬(1차 및 2차 영역)을 조사했습니다. 자동화의 표준화에 그 개선 가능성이 있었습니다.
이것은 매우 간단합니다. 공장의 더 많은 구성 요소에 동일한 자동화 솔루션이 장착되어 있을수록, 오류가 발생하기 쉬운 인터페이스가 줄어들고 제어 시스템이 더 단순해지며 유지보수 및 관리가 더 쉬워집니다. 배치 시스템에서 충전, 포장에 이르기까지 균일한 자동화 구성 요소 역시 제어 가능성을 높입니다. 이를 통해 전체 제조 공정이 투명해지며 제어가 더욱 쉬워집니다.
The host of different pneumatic components and solutions from production to packaging also offered a lot of potential for optimisation! Festo carefully looked at the solutions used together with B. Braun. We established our system recommendations on the basis of the customer’s requirements. This included, among other things, the design of a standard control cabinet to be used throughout the factory. We compiled all the requirements for connecting to the process control system and developed customised valve terminal cabinets.
Our valve terminal CPX/MPA is the core of the standardisation model. Thanks to its flexible control concept, all position indicators, actuators and valves can be connected to it. The control cabinet manages a total of 4,000 diaphragm valves and process valves for infusion bag production.
The new standard components were installed and implemented by all project partners. This was a challenge, because B. Braun’s machine and system builders are scattered all over Europe. Fortunately, Festo is as international a company as B. Braun. Our international sales and service structures simplified assembly and the delivery of the specified control cabinets to all the global companies involved. We coordinated the work and provided personal support to ensure the systems were implemented in line with the recommendations.
Festo designed, produced and delivered 45 ready-to-install valve terminal cabinets that were fully assembled, including design engineering data and circuit diagrams, with a functions guarantee and at a fixed price. Thus B. Braun received not only a ready-to-connect module for its machine builders, but a complete value chain package.
The system solutions from Festo resulted in a host of advantages, such as a simplified purchasing process, less design and engineering effort, reduced process costs and a decrease in the workload for specialised staff. This means our customers benefit from additional time savings, first of all because working with a single supplier not only makes purchasing more transparent and simple, but faster too. And secondly because the systems could be commissioned earlier. Automation with pre-tested, ready-to-install modules is always preferable to the installation of individual components with numerous interfaces.
The advantages of standardised process automation also have an impact on operating costs, and the Leading Infusion Factory Europe is a great example of this. All machines and systems, from the mixing systems to the filling machines, sterilisers, inspection machines and packaging machines, are operated with the same or similar pneumatic automation solutions. The effort in training maintenance staff is immediately reduced. Unavoidable system standstills can be eliminated more quickly. On the whole, system availability is significantly increased.
B. Braun also saves money on spare parts; as only a few different components are now being used, larger order quantities for the same parts result in economies of scale and lower procurement costs. And this means less warehouse space and less time spent on maintaining master data. Stock turnover is also increased, which in turn reduces stock devaluation.
In general, cutting down system complexity speeds up all processes. It makes system operators much more flexible, right from the planning phase for maintenance measures. The biggest advantage is that you only need one contact person for the entire pneumatic system.
Conclusion for maintenance at B. Braun:
"We are better able to plan and train staff, organise spare parts, and this significantly reduces our costs," confirms Klaus Sonntag of B. Braun.
As a systems operator, you’re always in some way dependent on the quality and punctuality of your suppliers.”