With the increasingly fierce competition in the pharmaceutical market, how to tap and improve the productivity of enterprises?

[ Market Analysis of Chemical Machinery Equipment Network ] In recent years, the number of expired original drug patents has increased, product research and development costs have continued to increase, drug profits are comparable to paper-thin under the normalization of volume purchases, and the competition in emerging drug markets has become increasingly fierce.
It is becoming more and more obvious in the industry that if pharmaceutical companies want to continue to obtain high economic benefits, they need to dig and improve their productivity more
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However, in the current pharmaceutical manufacturing industry, the production workshops of pharmaceutical companies are not actually operating in a good state, especially domestic pharmaceutical companies, which are affected by various factors such as production methods, personnel quality, equipment maintenance, and processing technology.
As a result, the equipment that seems to be operating normally has not exerted its due production capacity.
With the continuous development and growth of the enterprise, it has also brought huge losses invisibly
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So, how to tap and improve the productivity of enterprises? The international manufacturing industry puts forward the concept of OEE (Comprehensive Equipment Efficiency), that is, each production equipment has its own theoretical capacity.
To achieve this theoretical capacity, it must be ensured that there is no interference and quality loss
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It can measure the overall performance of the equipment, and realize the improvement of the equipment and reduce the loss and waste through the calculation and analysis of the overall efficiency of the equipment OEE
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　　At present, OEE has been widely used in Europe, America and multinational pharmaceutical companies, and its index has become an important standard for measuring the production efficiency of enterprises, and it is also one of the important means of implementing TPM (full production maintenance)
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However, among local pharmaceutical companies, the concept of OEE is still in the stage of being recognized, understood and tried
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　　In recent years, some local pharmaceutical companies have also expected to improve the overall efficiency (OEE) of equipment, and improve their management level through active deployment
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For example, Lunan Pharmaceutical actively maintains and improves equipment, and puts forward many reasonable improvement suggestions for "foreign equipment", and the overall operating efficiency (OEE) of equipment continues to improve; Lisheng Pharmaceutical plans to plan "Ten The Fourth Five-Year Plan, which includes continuous cost reduction and efficiency enhancement, and cost control research
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Deepen the application of OEE and TPM, focusing on improving the yield of finished products and the utilization rate of working hours; Kangyuan Pharmaceutical's 2020 semi-annual report mentioned that the intelligent solid preparation factory project under construction will further improve the TPM and OEE improvement system.
Daily monitoring, evaluation and incentives, technical support and other means have formed an improvement mechanism to achieve the purpose of reducing costs and increasing efficiency; Shanghai Modern Pharmaceutical also mentioned in the 2019 semi-annual report summary that lean management was implemented during the reporting period to improve the quality of endogenous development
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With cost control as the core, focus on on-site management, improve OEE, optimize processes, etc.
, and gradually form an enterprise lean production management system
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　　Affected by the epidemic in 2020, global pharmaceutical companies, including domestic pharmaceutical companies, are facing rising costs and increasingly prominent challenges in production capacity, forcing the entire industry to transform and upgrade in the direction of digitalization.
The industry believes that equipment OEE is imperative in the era of big data.

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　　It is worth mentioning that the overall efficiency OEE of most pharmaceutical equipment is lower than the average level, which also requires pharmaceutical machinery companies to pay attention to OEE research and provide better OEE services for pharmaceutical companies
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The industry pointed out that most of the medicines are provided to patients in the form of tablets, which also means that there is a great potential to be tapped in the production process of the tablets
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　　It is reported that a German tablet press company is committed to optimizing the production process of drug tableting and bringing the production efficiency of the existing tableting equipment to a greater level.
For example, it analyzes the comprehensive efficiency of the tableting equipment of a pharmaceutical company.
, inspected the use of the tableting die, the maintenance process, the technical training of the operator and the tableting process.
After listening to its suggestions, the company made some technical transformations through investment.
The tableting machine pressed 180,000 tablets per hour from the original one.
By the time the output reaches 320,000 pieces per hour, the annual production time has been shortened to 816 hours, and the production cost has been reduced by more than 160,000 euros, which has brought benefits to the enterprise
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　　In general, domestic pharmaceutical companies still need to deeply understand and learn the concept of comprehensive equipment effectiveness (OEE), analyze the reasons that affect OEE in a timely manner, improve the production efficiency of enterprises, and allow enterprises to obtain sustained higher economic benefits and greater efficiency.
To excavate and improve the productivity of enterprises, to ensure that enterprises will not be competed in the fierce market competition
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　　Original title: The competition in the pharmaceutical market is becoming more and more fierce.
How to tap and improve the productivity of enterprises?