GE Healthcare teams up with Rockwell Automation

GE Healthcare and Rockwell Automation are combining their automation, IT and single-use solution expertise to build bioprocessing operations for the digital age. The two companies will help biopharmaceutical companies create flexible and scalable facilities of the future, focused on rapid response to market demands, streamlined production technologies and adaptable manufacturing environments.

GE Healthcare has also joined the Rockwell Automation Partner Network Program as an OEM Partner to help drive a best-in-class distributed control system offering.

GE Healthcare and Rockwell Automation can help companies:

• Gain greater efficiency with FlexFactory™ single-use equipment integrated with Figurate™ bioprocess automation that improves reproducibility, repeatability and compliance.
• Digitize batch files and processes to reduce review times by weeks and even achieve real-time reviews.
• Deliver instructions to workers with augmented reality to improve batch execution, operations, equipment setup and training.