Digital Technology Roadmap

The Digital Plant Maturity Model (DPMM)1 describes one characteristic of a Level 5: Adaptive Plant as “In-line, real-time, continuous, closed-loop, process verification and control with automated realtime quality release”. This is the pinnacle of ‘Industry 4.0’, a term coined around 2011 to outline the advantages that a wide array of digital technologies running in concert can bring to manufacturing and critical facilities. For most pharmaceutical manufacturers, the strategic advancements these technologies can deliver have not been realized.