New diseases require new drugs and new vaccines: available quickly and globally, at consistent, high quality and affordable prices. At its new high-containment facility in Freiburg, Germany, Pfizer relies on state-of-the-art technologies from Siemens to meet these challenges.
Modern medication often uses highly active substances. When handling these substances, the highest safety standards must be met to protect employees and the environment. At its new HighCon plant in Freiburg, Germany, Pfizer relies on digital solutions from Siemens to ensure particularly safe, efficient, and sustainable production.
The Desigo CC building management platform reduces energy consumption for environmental control by up to 40% compared to traditional facilities.
The HighCon plant produces up to 12 billion pills every year, giving Pfizer a major advantage in fast, efficient production.
The production of OEB 4 category pharmaceuticals uses OEB 3 personal protection equipment.
Digitization and automation are the magic behind ultra-modern and complex plants such as Pfizer’s HighCon plant in Freiburg, Germany. A specially developed, holistic digital portfolio from Siemens combines software and automation solutions for fast and safe production. In addition to consistently high product quality, compliance with Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) is particularly important. Thanks to the Manufacturing Operations Management solution (MOM), the production operation is completely digitalized and works paperless.
Thanks to the intelligent networking of machines and processes, the Pfizer plant in Freiburg can produce more flexibly, faster and with less strain on resources.
Highly active ingredients help patients even in the smallest doses. In production, however, they must be handled with the greatest care. HighCon plants ensure maximum purity and safety for people and products. The Pfizer plant in Freiburg can produce drugs in the OEB 4 category. Thanks to a special containment concept and innovative technologies that are monitored and controlled by Building Services from Siemens, employees only need OEB 3 personal protection equipment—this means optimum production conditions and maximum safety, enabled by innovative technical building equipment.
Desigo CC enables many systems to communicate with each other and cooperate via a centralized control center. The platform is therefore the technological backbone for a smart building infrastructure.
To ensure that the HighCon plant is both extremely efficient and sustainable, Building Services from Siemens is monitoring and controlling the special containment concept and its innovative technologies. The Desigo CC building management platform collects all building and production data. The intelligent networking and visualization of the data reduces energy consumption for environmental control by up to 40% compared to traditional facilities. It does so with impressive productivity: up to 12 billion pills are manufactured in Freiburg every year, giving Pfizer a valuable lead in the race against time.
