Weigh and Dispense Software Selected for Tiofarma Plant

Tiofarma, together with its sister companies, is implementing Ci-DMS Weigh and Dispense software from CI Precision as part of renewal and extensions of its plant in Oud-Beijerland, near Rotterdam.

The company is the Netherland’s largest manufacturer of ‘specials’ for hospitals and pharmacies and also manufactures pharmaceutical products under contract. Production capabilities cover a complete range of solid, semi-solid and liquid formats.

With commissioning anticipated mid 2015, the Ci-DMS system will be installed and fully integrated with a suite of new business IT systems and will provide improved control and recording of the dispensing of raw materials, intermediates and packaging materials for each production batch.

Jan Altena, Project Manager Systems at Tiofarma said: “We want to ensure a high quality dispensary as the foundation of our production facilities. Safety and product quality are key considerations for us. We handle a great variety of raw materials, some of them highly potent, so exposure of our operators must be reduced to the absolute minimum.

“The Ci-DMS system will achieve this by guiding and streamlining processes, such that operators will spend their time in the weighing booth as reliable, secure and effective as possible. Ci-DMS has onboard web services that allow open standard integration with other software to make retrieval of a wide range of data very straightforward.”