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Session

Case Study

Monday, March 17

09:30 AM - 09:55 AM

Live in Everett

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How do you transform manufacturing operations, so your shop floor teams are spending more time executing the process and less time documenting the process in siloed systems? In this talk, we will share the digital transformation journey to create user-centric, end-to-end shop floor processes that are integrated to enable seamless and agile manufacturing, with a focus on extracting maximum value from our standard digital systems. This presentation will show how to:

  • Drive business value and improve manufacturing processes using a standard digital transformation framework.
  • Enhance production execution and integration by applying this framework to shop floor operations.
  • Transform business processes and digital systems into tangible benefits, such as cost savings.
Presentation

Speaker

Michele Leedom

Director, Technology Partnership, Merck & Co.

Michele is a Business Technology Partner at Merck & Co., Inc where she has worked for 16 years in various manufacturing IT roles supporting new facility start up, new drug approvals and commercial manufacturing. In her current role as a member of the Digital Manufacturing Transformation Management Office she is responsible for ensuring the transformation of manufacturing shop floor execution processes follows our standard user centric approach to simplify and standardize business processes before designing fit for purpose digital solutions.

The Pop in Your Job: I get great satisfaction out of using my knowledge and skills to improve any aspect of the manufacturing process knowing that the outcome will lead to making more medicines available to our customers.

Helen J. Lothian

Director, Manufacturing Operations Transformation, Merck & Co.

Divisional transformation workstream lead for manufacturing digital shop floor execution. Partnering with experts across multiple sites and functions to develop a strategic vision, identify targeted opportunities, and execute those opportunities with the intent to create a seamless operator experience through standardization, simplification, and digitization across drug substance, drug product, and packaging operations.

Company

Merck & Co.

At Merck, known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, we are unified around our purpose: We use the power of leading-edge science to save and improve lives around the world. For more than 130 years, we have brought hope to humanity through the development of important medicines and vaccines. We aspire to be the premier research-intensive biopharmaceutical company in the world — and today, we are at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions that advance the prevention and treatment of diseases in people and animals. We foster a diverse and inclusive global workforce and operate responsibly every day to enable a safe, sustainable and healthy future for all people and communities.

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