Almirall, a specialist medical dermatology company, has upgraded Körber’s Werum PAS-X MES manufacturing execution system at its plant in Reinbek, Germany. Almirall is a supplier of prescription and over the counter dermatics and uses PAS-X MES for the manufacturing of the Optiderm and Tannosynt product lines.

The company now benefits from faster processes, elimination of safety gaps and improved future upgradability. PAS-X MES is used as a full-scope MES in the entire manufacturing process – from weighing to mass production and packaging. It integrates the in-house Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) and the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). The underlying Oracle database has also been upgraded to a new version.

Almirall also introduced the latest PAS-X MES version – including warehouse management and the replacement of the legacy manufacturing execution system – at its highly automated plant in Sant Andreu, near Barcelona, Spain.

“Werum PAS-X MES is at the heart of our manufacturing operations, managing the execution of our manufacturing orders digitally and in accordance with Good Manufacturing Practice requirements,” said Kai Sauerbier, pharma operations senior director at Almirall. “We now have a new version that runs faster and with enhanced performance, thus increasing our production throughput. Next, we want to make improvements to the master batch records and make good use of the new software features to meet the increasing demand for quality and efficiency.”