About Featured Expert: Grantek

Grantek are global industry experts in manufacturing automation, manufacturing execution systems, industrial IT, cybersecurity and smart manufacturing. The company’s engineering and consulting capabilities span process and packaging automation, MES, manufacturing intelligence, enterprise integration, industrial networking, data infrastructure, serialization, machine vision, machine and control-system safety, and system verification and validation.

Grantek works extensively within pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, medical device, food and beverage, and consumer packaged goods manufacturing. These operating environments require automation and information systems to support production performance while also addressing traceability, data integrity, validation, quality and regulatory requirements.

Its automation capabilities include control-system design, process automation, packaging-line integration, legacy platform migration, panel fabrication, material Grantek-Logo-Featured-Expert-Industrial-Automation-Monthlytracking and machine vision. Grantek works with current and legacy PLC, DCS, HMI and SCADA platforms, as well as motor control, robotics, barcode and RFID, virtualization, and ERP and MES technologies. Project teams support new production lines, upgrades to existing equipment and the integration of automation across wider greenfield and brownfield facilities.

Within life sciences manufacturing, Grantek provides design, implementation, commissioning, testing and qualification support for process control, ISA-88 batch systems, manufacturing execution systems, electronic batch records, building and environmental monitoring, data historians, industrial IT infrastructure and ERP integration. Its teams work with standards and practices including ISA-88, ISA-95 and GAMP 5 when developing systems for regulated production environments.

The company’s industrial IT expertise covers the networks, computing resources, virtualization, backup strategies and security controls that support production. Grantek approaches these elements as part of the wider manufacturing architecture, rather than treating plant cybersecurity and data infrastructure as separate from the automation and information systems they support.  Its MES and manufacturing intelligence work connects plant-floor production data with quality, operational and enterprise information. This supports electronic production records, reporting, OEE and downtime analysis, recipe and batch management, and the exchange of information between plant-floor and business systems.

Grantek also supports platform migrations and multisite manufacturing programs. These projects can require common technical standards, reusable system designs and coordinated deployments across facilities with different installed equipment, operating practices and regulatory obligations.

In food, beverage and consumer packaged goods operations, the company’s experience extends across continuous, batch and discrete production, including processing, packaging, labeling, serialization, vision inspection, recipe management and material tracking.

Founded in 1980, Grantek has offices across the United States and Canada, together with operations in Bengaluru, India, supporting manufacturers across regional and global programs. To learn more about Grantek and its capabilities, please click here.

 

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