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	Customer Success Story: Leciva a.s. Pharmaceutical ICONICS

Customer Success Story: Leciva a.s. Pharmaceutical

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Middleware, SDKs & Libraries
Applicable Industries	Pharmaceuticals
Applicable Functions	Process Manufacturing Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Process Control & Optimization Regulatory Compliance Monitoring
Services	Software Design & Engineering Services System Integration
Challenge	Leciva, a.s. Pharmaceutical, the largest Czech pharmaceutical company, needed a system to meet their high recording requirements for documenting every aspect of their production process to meet GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) standards. They required a system that provided extensive security measures, audit trails for operators, reliable logging of all production data, operational sequence checking, and traceable alarm and event history recordings. The system also needed to meet their process documentation, production data collection, and report requirements to meet their GMP standards. Read More
About Customer	Leciva, a.s. Pharmaceutical is the largest Czech pharmaceutical company and dominates both the Czech and Slovak markets. Their main business is pharmaceutical production and distribution. The company was founded in 1993 under the Czech Republic National Enterprise. In 1997, the Czech government sold all the remaining shares it held to Leciva, a.s. They sell the majority of their pharmaceutical substances to developed industrial countries in the EU, Eastern Europe (Slovakia, Russia, Poland, Ukraine etc.). Leciva, a.s. dominates the local Czech Republic market with a 65% share of the production of this pharmaceutical substance sector. Read More
Solution	Leciva, a.s. selected ICONICS to provide them with their pharmaceutical production management system. ICONICS’ GENESIS32™ software suite of tools was installed at their production operations in Prague, which include GraphWorX™32, TrendWorX™32 and ScriptWorX™32. The GENESIS32 Software is running on a Siemens Simatic S7 OPC server. The GENESIS32 system monitors every aspect of the production operation, provides clear directions and information for each of the operators via GraphWorX32 HMI screens and collects production data which is stored in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and presented in numerical and graphical formats. The software system interfaces with a Siemens S7-400 PLC, connected to a Simatic and one gauge system. There is one PC node implemented and the system has over 1,000 digital and analog tags. The GENESIS32 system processes over 100 scripts that can run simultaneously using VBA 6.0 integrated into ScriptWorX32. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Middleware, SDKs & Libraries

Applicable Industries

Pharmaceuticals

Applicable Functions

Process Manufacturing

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Process Control & Optimization

Regulatory Compliance Monitoring

Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

System Integration

Challenge

Leciva, a.s. Pharmaceutical, the largest Czech pharmaceutical company, needed a system to meet their high recording requirements for documenting every aspect of their production process to meet GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) standards. They required a system that provided extensive security measures, audit trails for operators, reliable logging of all production data, operational sequence checking, and traceable alarm and event history recordings. The system also needed to meet their process documentation, production data collection, and report requirements to meet their GMP standards.

About Customer

Leciva, a.s. Pharmaceutical is the largest Czech pharmaceutical company and dominates both the Czech and Slovak markets. Their main business is pharmaceutical production and distribution. The company was founded in 1993 under the Czech Republic National Enterprise. In 1997, the Czech government sold all the remaining shares it held to Leciva, a.s. They sell the majority of their pharmaceutical substances to developed industrial countries in the EU, Eastern Europe (Slovakia, Russia, Poland, Ukraine etc.). Leciva, a.s. dominates the local Czech Republic market with a 65% share of the production of this pharmaceutical substance sector.

Solution

Leciva, a.s. selected ICONICS to provide them with their pharmaceutical production management system. ICONICS’ GENESIS32™ software suite of tools was installed at their production operations in Prague, which include GraphWorX™32, TrendWorX™32 and ScriptWorX™32. The GENESIS32 Software is running on a Siemens Simatic S7 OPC server. The GENESIS32 system monitors every aspect of the production operation, provides clear directions and information for each of the operators via GraphWorX32 HMI screens and collects production data which is stored in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and presented in numerical and graphical formats. The software system interfaces with a Siemens S7-400 PLC, connected to a Simatic and one gauge system. There is one PC node implemented and the system has over 1,000 digital and analog tags. The GENESIS32 system processes over 100 scripts that can run simultaneously using VBA 6.0 integrated into ScriptWorX32.

Impact #1	The ICONICS GENESIS32 software system has increased the quality and completeness of the documentation collected on the production operation processes.
Impact #2	The system has provided clear production information and procedures that are delivered to each of the operators running the equipment.
Impact #3	Reports on production operations are generated from the data collected and stored in Leciva’s local, workstation -level, databases.

Impact #1

The ICONICS GENESIS32 software system has increased the quality and completeness of the documentation collected on the production operation processes.

Impact #2

The system has provided clear production information and procedures that are delivered to each of the operators running the equipment.

Impact #3

Reports on production operations are generated from the data collected and stored in Leciva’s local, workstation -level, databases.

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Customer Success Story: Leciva a.s. Pharmaceutical

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