Optimizing Continuous Drug Product Manufacturing with PCMM

Pfizer is one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies that is investing in making life-saving medicines available to patients more quickly.

The Portable, Continuous, Miniature, and Modular (PCMM) manufacturing platform transforms the industry standard of using batch production in Solid Oral Dose tablets by manufacturing continuously and enabling agile processing of portfolio demand.

The goal of this Tauber project is to assess and strategize the utilization of PCMM to handle an increase of 50% in demand for late-phase clinical projects.

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STUDENT TEAM:

Casey Carlson – Master of Business Administration

Anubhav Gupta – Master of Science in Engineering in Industrial and Operations Engineering

 

PROJECT SPONSORS:

Kenneth Nadeau – PCMM Operations Manager

Robert Noack – Sr. Director Drug Product Manufacturing

Paul Stewart – Vice President Drug Product Supply

 

FACULTY ADVISORS:

Ravi Anupindi – Ross School of Business

Quentin Stout – College of Engineering

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