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	Comar: Competing on Quality and Agility in the Medical, Healthcare and Pharma Industries

Comar: Competing on Quality and Agility in the Medical, Healthcare and Pharma Industries

Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics Functional Applications - Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP)
Applicable Industries	Healthcare & Hospitals Life Sciences Pharmaceuticals
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Predictive Maintenance Real-Time Location System (RTLS)
Services	Data Science Services System Integration
Challenge	Comar, a manufacturer of plastic packaging products and components for the medical, pharmaceutical, healthcare, personal and home care, food and beverage, and niche markets, needed a system that would provide real-time product and processing insights and the traceability to efficiently complete audits. The company serves highly regulated industries and competes on both quality and agility. The challenge was to deliver products that meet both customers’ deadlines and quality requirements, including compliance with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and International Standards Organization (ISO) standards. The company also needed to handle short-notice production runs when their customers need them and consolidate financial reports across all nine Comar manufacturing plants for greater financial visibility and control. Read More
About Customer	Comar is a fast-growing manufacturer of plastic packaging products and components for the medical, pharmaceutical, healthcare, personal and home care, food and beverage, and niche markets. The company produces fully assembled medical devices, diagnostic consumables, and a broad line of stock and custom products, including oral dispensers, dosage cups and spoons, dropper assemblies, plastic bottles, wet wipe containers and lids, and closures. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Comar has ramped up operations to produce millions of diagnostic testing consumables, fever-reducing dosing and dispensing devices, antibacterial and disinfectant wipe lids and canisters, immune health vitamin packers, and many more items that are critical to the medical industry. Headquartered in Voorhees, NJ, Comar has grown from two manufacturing locations to nine facilities across the United States and Puerto Rico, staffed by more than 900 employees. Read More
Solution	Comar relies on the DELMIAworks manufacturing ERP system for real-time process and product monitoring, quality management, traceability, and manufacturing execution system (MES) to ensure quality while meeting customers’ production deadlines and audit requests. The company has standardized on the DELMIAworks manufacturing ERP system across all of its facilities, which has enabled it to accelerate its new product development and introduction process while also staying agile enough to take on custom product orders. The machines on Comar’s shop floors are outfitted with sensors, which complement DELMIAworks’ real-time monitoring functionality to provide the manufacturing intelligence managers need for making timely, informed decisions. The company also relies heavily on real-time monitoring to gain valuable insights into how every machine on each of its production centers is operating. By monitoring production variances, defects can be adjusted out to increase yield while decreasing waste. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Functional Applications - Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP)

Applicable Industries

Healthcare & Hospitals

Life Sciences

Pharmaceuticals

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Predictive Maintenance

Real-Time Location System (RTLS)

Services

Data Science Services

System Integration

Challenge

Comar, a manufacturer of plastic packaging products and components for the medical, pharmaceutical, healthcare, personal and home care, food and beverage, and niche markets, needed a system that would provide real-time product and processing insights and the traceability to efficiently complete audits. The company serves highly regulated industries and competes on both quality and agility. The challenge was to deliver products that meet both customers’ deadlines and quality requirements, including compliance with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and International Standards Organization (ISO) standards. The company also needed to handle short-notice production runs when their customers need them and consolidate financial reports across all nine Comar manufacturing plants for greater financial visibility and control.

About Customer

Comar is a fast-growing manufacturer of plastic packaging products and components for the medical, pharmaceutical, healthcare, personal and home care, food and beverage, and niche markets. The company produces fully assembled medical devices, diagnostic consumables, and a broad line of stock and custom products, including oral dispensers, dosage cups and spoons, dropper assemblies, plastic bottles, wet wipe containers and lids, and closures. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Comar has ramped up operations to produce millions of diagnostic testing consumables, fever-reducing dosing and dispensing devices, antibacterial and disinfectant wipe lids and canisters, immune health vitamin packers, and many more items that are critical to the medical industry. Headquartered in Voorhees, NJ, Comar has grown from two manufacturing locations to nine facilities across the United States and Puerto Rico, staffed by more than 900 employees.

Solution

Comar relies on the DELMIAworks manufacturing ERP system for real-time process and product monitoring, quality management, traceability, and manufacturing execution system (MES) to ensure quality while meeting customers’ production deadlines and audit requests. The company has standardized on the DELMIAworks manufacturing ERP system across all of its facilities, which has enabled it to accelerate its new product development and introduction process while also staying agile enough to take on custom product orders. The machines on Comar’s shop floors are outfitted with sensors, which complement DELMIAworks’ real-time monitoring functionality to provide the manufacturing intelligence managers need for making timely, informed decisions. The company also relies heavily on real-time monitoring to gain valuable insights into how every machine on each of its production centers is operating. By monitoring production variances, defects can be adjusted out to increase yield while decreasing waste.

Impact #1	Dashboards that are auto-refreshed every 15 minutes with real-time data provide managers with valuable insights into production efficiency and quality.
Impact #2	Real-time production and process insights enable Comar to handle short-notice production runs when their customers need them.
Impact #3	Consolidated financial reports across all nine Comar manufacturing plants provide greater financial visibility and control.

Impact #1

Dashboards that are auto-refreshed every 15 minutes with real-time data provide managers with valuable insights into production efficiency and quality.

Impact #2

Real-time production and process insights enable Comar to handle short-notice production runs when their customers need them.

Impact #3

Consolidated financial reports across all nine Comar manufacturing plants provide greater financial visibility and control.

Benefit #1	Standardizing on a single ERP system enables Comar to fully integrate an acquired company within 6 to 9 months.

Benefit #1

Standardizing on a single ERP system enables Comar to fully integrate an acquired company within 6 to 9 months.

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Comar: Competing on Quality and Agility in the Medical, Healthcare and Pharma Industries

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