Month: December 2019

The 2019 Pharmaceutical Industrial Association (PIA) annual meeting is the only event in Puerto Rico focused on pharmaceutical innovation. This year, under the slogan “Faces of Innovation: Advancing the way Science Cares for Patients”, PIA highlighted the role different faces play in search of innovation: from scientists and engineers who work every day to produce new therapies, and patients who enjoy a better quality of life thanks to innovative medicines. During the event the latest trends were presented, both in the United States and in Puerto Rico of bio-pharmaceutical innovation. In addition, it is always the meeting point to promote the exchange of ideas and best practices among members of the industry. Again, this year PACIV exhibited at PIA and offered freshly brew coffee...

PACIV had sent several associates to attend this year’s Rockwell Automation Fair 2019 held November 20th through the 21st in Chicago.  The Automation Fair provided additional knowledge and skill-building opportunities of the latest Rockwell Automation Technology to all who visited. PACIV Associates pictured from left to right:  Brett Ronczka (PACIV USA – Automation/Validation Engineer I), Ernick Figueroa (PACIV PR – Business Development Leader), Rick Straw (PACIV – President), Taylor Whitaker (PACIV USA – Validation Engineer I), Chris Sormalis (PACIV USA – Business Development Leader), Tim Brant (PACIV USA – Consultant Engineer Associate), Elizabeth Price (PACIV USA – Automation/Validation Engineer I), Eduardo Perez (PACIV USA – Automation Engineer I). Automation Fair® is...

The Wonderware – Application Server 2017 Training, was taken this past August, from the 27th to the 30th, in “Instalaciones de Incentro S.A. “in San Jose, Costa Rica. Update 2 course is a 4-day, instructor-led class designed to provide an overview of the features and functionality of Application Server. This course provides lectures and hands-on labs to supply and reinforce the knowledge necessary to use these features and functions for plant modeling. The class demonstrates how to use Application Server technology to connect to field devices, process data, run scripts, handle alarms, and historize alarms and events. This course also provides a fundamental understanding of application maintenance, real-time alarm recording, and security settings, and describes how to...

The training provided an overview of bio-pharmaceutical manufacturing processes, including an understanding of the biochemistry, cell growth, harvesting and separation, covering both upstream and downstream processes and clean utilities e.g. PUW, WFI and Clean steam.  It also included conventional biotechnology, latest trends in single use technology and future trends in biotechnology. The training also gave practical exposure to ‘mimic’ the standard biopharmaceutical environment, equipment and activities. They also learned about equipment types relevant to bioprocessing and completed some basic practical exercises in terms of plant equipment.Overall this training provided all PACIV engineers and associates with a good understanding of the biopharma manufacturing process,...