Bayer HealthCare in Germany produces pharmaceutical products at its Leverkusen production site. The site employs 1000 people to produce solutions for infusion and package over 6 billion tablets and 18 million infusion bottles annually into 240 million blister packs and 16 million packaging units. Festo was tasked with retrofitting the plant's diaphragm process valve control within 4 weeks. Festo designed and built new control cabinets containing the necessary automation components to remotely control the valves, reducing interfaces for the customer.
Bayer HealthCare in Germany produces pharmaceutical products at its Leverkusen production site. The site employs 1000 people to produce solutions for infusion and package over 6 billion tablets and 18 million infusion bottles annually into 240 million blister packs and 16 million packaging units. Festo was tasked with retrofitting the plant's diaphragm process valve control within 4 weeks. Festo designed and built new control cabinets containing the necessary automation components to remotely control the valves, reducing interfaces for the customer.
Bayer HealthCare in Germany produces pharmaceutical products at its Leverkusen production site. The site employs 1000 people to produce solutions for infusion and package over 6 billion tablets and 18 million infusion bottles annually into 240 million blister packs and 16 million packaging units. Festo was tasked with retrofitting the plant's diaphragm process valve control within 4 weeks. Festo designed and built new control cabinets containing the necessary automation components to remotely control the valves, reducing interfaces for the customer.
Bayer Health Care, Germany Production site, Leverkusen Task
The Company combines the global With approximately 1.000 highly • Control of diaphragm process activities of the divisions Animal qualified employees, Leverkusen valves for production of solu- Health, Bayer Schering Pharma, is one of Bayer HealthCare’s tions for infusion. Retrofit an Consumer Care and Diabetes Care. major production sites. They existing plant within a time- More than 50.000 people are produce, package and distribute frame of just 4 weeks. employed by Bayer HealthCare high quality medicinal products worldwide. for all international pharmaceu- Solution Their aim is to discover and manu- tical markets. • Completely designed and facture innovative products that The solids facility in Leverkusen manufactured control cabinets will improve human and animal produces more than six billion ➔ reduced interfaces for the health worldwide. The products tablets. These are packaged by customer. enhance well-being and quality of the solids packaging facility into • Control cabinets include MPA life by diagnosing, preventing and over 240 million blister packs. valve terminal, CPX modules for treating disease. At the same time, the parenteral digital and analogue signals, facility in Leverkusen produces Profibus DP communication, more than 18 million infusion and Barriers for connecting the injection bottles, vials and over NAMUR-signals from hazardous Festo AG & Co. KG 1.5 million ampoules. areas (ATEX Zone 1), terminal These are turned into more than strip for field signals. PO Box 16 million packaging units. • Documentation using EPLAN 73726 Esslingen and standard printed version. Germany www.festo.com Telefon +49 711 347-0 Telefax +49 711 347-21 44 service_international @festo.com