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Continua: Transform Your Enterprise

Empowering Our Clients Through
Innovative Thinking, Advanced Technologies, & Industry Expertise

Continua: Transform Your Enterprise

Empowering Our Clients Through
Innovative Thinking, Advanced Technologies, & Industry Expertise

Continua: Transform Your Enterprise

Empowering Our Clients Through
Innovative Thinking, Advanced Technologies, & Industry Expertise

OUR EXPERTISE

Data Design, Architecture & Analytics   

Adopting a modern data architecture, advanced analytics and AI will help you shape your facility design and process control strategies, rapidly scale from clinical to commercial, verify consistent batch quality, improve yield, and minimize unplanned downtime.

Manufacturing Operations Management   

Our experts have the industry knowledge and technology tools to maintain your manufacturing operations systems in a secure, current, and optimized state to extract maximum value from your investment.  

Operations Design
& Model   

Break down your manufacturing processes into an easy-to-manage model. Accurately simulate your plant to visualize resource constraints, generate a feasible schedule, and visualize a pathway to higher production rates with the power of real-time monitoring.

Process Analytical
Technology   

Leverage the latest advances in PAT to optimize end-to-end production—from active ingredient through finished product. Streamline your processes by integrating multivariate data and real-time process models to manage critical quality attributes and predict final product quality.

Continuous
Manufacturing   

Our integrated solutions enable users to deploy modular, multi-product continuous manufacturing lines to produce APIs, biologics, and drug products more predictably, efficiently, and of better quality than traditional batch manufacturing methods. 

Additional
Expertise   

Explore Continua’s additional capabilities in manufacturing and process automation within the biotech, bio-manufacturing, R&D, and chemical industries.

FEATURED CAPABILITY: REAL-TIME MODELING & SCHEDULING

Explore the benefits:

  • Break away from Excel chaos by having an ‘always feasible’ schedule
  • Create an actual pathway to improvement—with confidence in data
  • Accommodate any plant floor issue through the platform’s simple building blocks

 

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OUR EXPERTS

Paul Brodbeck

Chief Technologist

Paul has over 30 years of experience in design, programming, and commissioning of DCS and PLC automation control systems for specialty chemical and pharmaceutical companies.

Frank Corden

Principal MES Consultant

Frank’s specialties include MOM, manufacturing intelligence, project management, process improvement, product development, and system validation for FDA-regulated environments.

Eric Grigg

Lead Business Analyst

Eric helps pharmaceutical companies address their needs with his business acumen and extensive knowledge of technology, particularly related to MES.

Gary Macri

Manufacturing Operations & MES Expert

Gary has executed over 30 MES projects—achieving accuracy, efficiency, and validation via the re-creation of processes and collection of data onto a unified platform.

Brian Sauerborn

Industry Consultant

With over 10 years of experience in industrial automation, Brian has the engineering background and industry context, to not only apply his passion and skills to any project, but also implement challenging PAT and machine learning projects.

Dan Wasser

Industry Consultant

With decades of pharmaceutical manufacturing experience, Dan helps clients get data from disparate systems, query it, and then using analytics tools to help solve business problems.
INSIGHTS & STORIES

See how our clients are taking advantage of Continua’s advanced engineering capabilities, innovative technology solutions, and decades of industry experience to enable real-time insights and advancements in product quality, assurance, and other KPIs.

Augmenting an MES

Bringing large amounts of data into your business systems requires the flexibility, security, and growth potential of a Unified Namespace ecosystem.

Integrating Lab Automation Systems

Learn how we integrated Nova FLEX cell culture analysis data with this pharma company’s plant control system to automate required actions.

Monitoring High-Value R&D Materials

This biotech company now monitors and tracks its R&D materials throughout the earliest stages of drug development using a UNS platform.

MES Data Informs Analytics

Explore several ways to extract MES data to support analytics: from hiring an MES engineer to querying the MES recipe, to creating a Unified Namespace.

Ideal Unified Namespace Pilots

Examples: Continuous Process Verification with batch-to-batch comparisons at different locations and Machine Learning with data from multiple systems.

MES Maintains Chain of Identity

This Cell/Gene Therapy customer’s autologous process required maintaining a strict chain of identity across the supply chain with no room for error.

MES Enables Predictability

By implementing an electronic batch record in MES, this customer practically eliminated errors—ultimately reducing finished goods inventory.

MES Reduces Operational Costs

MES in formulation and packaging reach the goal of getting from tech transfer to production faster and with appropriate documentation.