IPS-Integrated Project Services, LLC (IPS), a provider of Engineering, Procurement, Construction Management and Validation (EPCMV) services, will address new themes for the eighth annual IPS Technologies Tours at INTERPHEX. Show floor tours will take place Wednesday, April 18th from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. in the Lobby Mezzanine. The tours offer insight into the latest equipment and manufacturing technologies. IPS shares its experience with customers firsthand on what its feels is the best preforming equipment, both tested and new to the market, to suit manufacturing needs.
 
Containment Band Reunion – Process Containment for OSD and Parenteral Manufacturing Tour
Leaders: Sherry Chen, Sam Halaby, Paul Valerio
Vendors: ChargePoint Technology Ltd., Extract Technology, Getinge, ILC Dover, LP, SKAN US, Inc., Solo Containment
This Tour will “expose” attendees to various forms of containment and material transfer, including downflow booths, hard and soft‐walled isolators and material transfer solutions.

Continuous Manufacturing Principles – Linking Unit Operations and Eliminating Intermediate Bulk Storage
Tour Leaders: Theodore Cohen, MEM; Lonna Gordon; Mike Vileikis
Vendors: Asahi Kasei Bioprocess America, Inc., Glatt Air Techniques, Inc., GEA North America, L.B. Bohle LLC, Pall Biotech
This Tour highlights the different continuous unit operations for pharmaceutical manufacturing and how they positively impact facility planning.
 
Critical Utilities – The Lifeblood of Your Facility
Tour Leaders: Daniel Colantonio, Todd Moesch, Brian White
Vendors: Allegheny Bradford Corp, Budzar Industries Inc., Holloway America, Sani Matic Inc., STAINLESS FABRICATION, INC., Mar Cor Purification
Tour participants will visit equipment manufacturers who are delivering solutions to critical utility generation, storage and distribution, and support systems used for temperature control and cleaning.
 
Flexible Parenteral Manufacturing – Seed to Vial
Tour Leaders: Jason S. Collins, RA, NCARB, John Lyons, Paul Valerio
Vendors: AdvantaPure®/NewAge Industries, Inc., Bausch + Stroebel Machine Company, Inc., groninger USA L.L.C., OPTIMA Machinery Corporation, Pall Life Sciences, Thermo Fisher Scientific
New this year is a tour focused on equipment aimed at providing flexibility. This tour will follow the life cycle of product production and see how these solutions can be applied from the early stages of seed production through the final filling of drug products.
 
iCON – The Turnkey Facility of the Future Here Today. Are you iCON Ready?
Tour Leaders: Erich Bozenhardt, P.E., Tom Piombino, P. E., Peter Makowenskyj, Dennis Powers
Vendors: AES Clean Technologies, Inc., Butler ManufacturingTM, G-CON Manufacturing, Inc., IPS-Integrated Project Services, LLC, MilliporeSigma
Through the collaboration between IPS and G‐CON Manufacturing, the iCON Tour provides end‐users the opportunity to experience the iCON project delivery process, the quality of materials used, and the equipment options available to customers.
 
The Track to Serialization – Solutions to Safeguard Your Products
Tour Leaders: David Buynak, Kevin Swartz
Vendors: Adents, ANTARES VISION U.S.A., METTLER TOLEDO, Optel Vision, WIPOTEC-OCS, Inc.
The Serialization Tour focuses on pack line and warehouse devices as well as software solutions to meet U.S. and global traceability regulations. You will hear from industry thought leaders about the impacts, technical challenges, and potential benefits beyond compliance of serialization implementation.
 
More info: interphex.ipsdb.com/interphex‐2018