Cathay Biotech produces polymers — an essential element for various chemical products. Its Wusu plant has adopted Siemens’ complete digital factory solution, covering the entire lifecycle of the plant in terms of design, construction, operation and maintenance, to enable better monitoring, from R&D to production.
Taking digitalized bio-manufacturing to a new level
At its factory in Wusu, in China’s Xinjiang Province, Cathay Industrial Biotech Ltd. is demonstrating the possibilities that bio-manufacturing offers — and is using digitalization solutions from Siemens.
Digital transformation as a success factor
Business expansion
More efficient R&D
Cathay Biotech examines more than 500,000 lab samples annually. The SIMATIC SIPAT software with Process Analytical Technology (PAT) uses digital analysis to help identify connections between key parameters, reducing lab processes.
Uninterrupted operation
The SIMATIC PCS 7 process control system uses a digital plant model created by the COMOS Plant Asset Digital Management System to ensure continuous production monitoring.
Efficient production
The SIMATIC IT Manufacturing Execution System ensures stable and efficient planning and production workflows. Many production stages and release processes can be automated, which reduces operating costs and error rates.
Integrated maintenance
SIMATIC PCS 7 und COMOS MRO share data to plan maintenance and perform repairs, which helps to avoid errors and plant downtimes.
Digital transformation
Business expansion
Large volumes of data — "big data" — enable Cathay Biotech to learn more about the principles governing research and production. Working with Siemens, Cathay Biotech scaled a highly complex and sensitive lab process to industrial scale, expanding its business in the process. This improved the efficiency of its entire bio-manufacturing system and allowed the company to fully exploit the potential of digital production.
Siemens Digital Enterprise solution
The Siemens Digital Enterprise solution for Cathay Biotech covers the entire lifecycle of the plant in design, construction, operation and maintenance. The entire value chain is integrated with Siemens hardware and software; data is automatically accumulated, processed, and analyzed, and the results of the analysis flow back from production into the lab. As a result, Cathay Biotech can fully upgrade every step of its process, from R&D to production and back to R&D.
Siemens Xcelerator
Siemens Xcelerator is an open digital business platform that makes digital transformation easier, with faster time to market and at scale.
It comprises:
- a curated, modular portfolio of software and IoT-enabled hardware built on standard application programming interfaces and a range of services from Siemens and certified third parties
- a growing ecosystem of partners — from solution vendors to technology partners
- a marketplace that will grow over time as a central point to explore, educate, exchange and transact alongside a community of customers, partners, and developers
With clear technical and commercial governance based on highest standards and values, Siemens facilitates co-creation and collaboration between partners, customers and developers.
To improve bio-manufacturing, we must [...] make higher-quality products more efficiently [...], production costs [must be] competitive [...] [and] mass production must be an option, as with oil-based production. Digitalization plays a critical part in all [...] aspects.
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From clipboard to tablet — with Siemens & ZETA GmbH
Enjoy an exciting exchange on the topic of maintenance and servicing and how the problem of paper-based workflows can be eliminated to ensure safe maintenance.
