Endress+Hauser Process Automation Services for the Life Sciences Industry


Endress + Hauser provides process automation solutions for pharmaceutical companies, supporting projects ranging from pilot plants to fully automated commercial-scale facilities.
The company helps streamline production, maintain quality and optimise performance while keeping to clients’ stringent schedules. It also uses the latest in technological innovations to help clients comply with good manufacturing practice (GMP) regulations throughout the product lifecycle.
Endress + Hauser’s instruments are designed to ASME-BPE standards.
Process measurement instrumentation and services
Endress + Hauser helps provide input to user requirement specifications, deliver key documentation, undertake performance testing and offer support for products, applications and services with full traceability.
The company offers a wide range of consistently high-quality process measurement and instrumentation products, services and solutions to reduce costs throughout the supply chain. Its products meet good automated manufacturing practice (GAMP) and International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) guidelines.
Endress+Hauser is a globally qualified partner that designs and develops innovative process measurement instrumentation, solutions and services in accordance with good practice (GxP) guidelines and optimised to client requirements.
The firm’s devices offer a comprehensive range of hygienic and aseptic process connections such as Triclamp and Varivent to avoid zones where bacteria could develop, affecting product quality.
Meeting life science industry standards
Endress+Hauser operates two Centers of Competence that provide expertise in life sciences projects. The company employs a dedicated GxP-certified life science team that has been expertly trained and that understands the challenges of the life sciences industry.
Endress+Hauser‘s products meet industry standards such as ASME BPE, GAMP 5, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) listed materials for wetted parts (21 CFR part 177), 3-A authorisation and the European Hygienic Engineering and Design Group (EHEDG), as well as have certificates for sterilise-in-place (SIP) cycles up to 150°C, materials certificates according to EN-10204, calibration certificates and standards of practice (SOP) for calibration and maintenance.
The company’s experience has been gained through the development of long-term relationships with its customers, where it aims to improve efficiency, innovation and compliance.
Documentation and traceability of process measurement instrumentation
Endress+Hauser provides a comprehensive range of documentation, certificates, instructions and procedures that are GxP compliant and are mandatory for design qualification (DQ), installation qualification (IQ), operation qualification (OQ) and performance qualification (PQ).
The company also provides technical support for writing (SOP) and other procedures according to the GAMP5.
Endress+Hauser works closely with clients throughout the entire lifecycle of your project, from the planning and project phase right through to the operational phase.
This includes the planning, specification, design, configuration, coding, verification, reporting and release of online and offline systems for product lifecycle.
Pre-engineered solutions and calibration management software
Endress + Hauser’s pre-engineered solutions and calibration management software (CMS) provide compliant solutions for, as an example, the implementation of the 21 CFR Part 11 for pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, cosmetics, food and beverages, and fine chemistry.
Products and Services

Products
Depending on the application, a field instrument is required to measure and control different automation processes. This is why Endress+Hauser's field instruments use different measuring principles to operate reliably and accurately in any situation.

Services
Endress+Hauser's commitment to you is to support, to service and to optimise your process.

FieldXpert SMT70
The Field Xpert SMT70 tablet PC for device configuration enables mobile plant asset management in hazardous and non-hazardous areas.

Liquiline Compact CM82
The Liquiline Compact CM82 is the smallest transmitter for Memosens sensors.

Micropilot FMR62 Radar Measurement
Micropilot FMR62 is the first 80GHz radar developed according to the international functional safety directive IEC 61508.

Proline Promass P 100 Coriolis Flowmeter
Promass P 100 offers the enhanced performance of a bent tube meter and the drainability of a straight tube meter without any compromise.

iTHERM TrustSens TM37x
The iTHERM TrustSens TM371 and TM372 compact hygienic thermometer is designed for applications in the life sciences and food and beverage industries that require seamless compliance to FDA regulations and/or GMP rules
Video

Expert Testimonial by Global Industry Manager of Life Sciences Klaus Köhler
Klaus Köhler's task is to bring Endress + Hauser customers as close as possible to the company to develop the right instruments, solutions, and services that provide the most value.

Services for the Life Sciences
Our service expert talks about the importance of calibration in the life sciences industry and how Endress+Hauser can help you optimize your calibration intervals and manufacturing continuity.

Endress + Hauser – People for Process Autmation
Switzerland has a sense of tradition and passion for technology. Endress + Hauser combines both. It began as pioneers of electronic sensor technology in 1953.
White Papers

Quality by Design (QbD) in Process Instrumentation
To meet regulatory requirements, users must perform traceable calibrations on instruments to maintain product quality.

Level Measurements in the Life Sciences Industry
What was once a laborious process is getting easier, thanks to modern sensors and calibration procedures.

Do Microwave Level Sensors Affect Cell Cultures?
Microwaves are being used to kill cancer cells and sterilize food, so the question comes up: do microwave radar level sensors kill or alter live cells in pharmaceutical processes?
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Around 35 Open Integration programme partners gathered together at Endress+Hauser in Reinach, Switzerland, to share their experiences and thoughts for the first time.
Read moreEndress+Hauser experienced strong growth across all regions, sectors and product areas in 2018. The ongoing digitalisation of the industry and positive development on the international markets provided impetus. The Group increased sales and profits, invested heavily and created hundreds of jobs worldwide.
Read moreIn industrial process measurement and automation, demand is steadily rising for simple, reliable and maintenance-free instruments in a pocket-sized format.
Read moreSAP and Endress+Hauser have agreed to cooperate for the development of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications for the process industry.
Read moreIn the food and life sciences industries, very small measurements must be made with a high degree of accuracy.
Read moreDo you have measuring points where installation space is restricted? Do you require a high degree of measured value availability for your production process? If so, then Endress+Hauser have the perfect transmitter for you: the Liquiline Compact CM82.
Read moreEndress+Hauser invested more than €10.4m in a state-of-the-art production facility at its location in Nesselwang, Germany.
Read moreIn 2014, Endress+Hauser filed more patents than ever before due to their range of innovative products.
Read moreEndress+Hauser has opened a new 80,000ft² state-of-the-art Customer Center in Greenwood, Indiana, US.
Read moreWhen it comes to the early identification of new technologies, Endress+Hauser is a clear leader, as shown by an award given by the renowned Fraunhofer Institute.
Read moreChanges are taking place to the supervisory board of the Endress+Hauser Group. The annual general meeting elected Hans-Peter Endress, Thomas Kraus and Antonietta Pedrazzetti as new members of the group's controlling body. In turn, Dr George A Endress, Dr Hans Fünfschilling and Willi Ruesch have duly retired from the board.
Read moreEndress+Hauser has acquired additional shares in German-based Analytik Jena AG and exceeded the reportable threshold of 50% of the voting rights. The Group now owns 50.37% of the shares.
Read moreThe Endress+Hauser Group increased its net sales by approximately 7% to more than €1.8bn in the 2013 financial year. In terms of operating profit, profit before taxes and net income, the company also showed an improvement on the previous year.
Read moreAuthorities have approved a takeover by Swiss process automation group Endress+Hauser to acquire US company Kaiser Optical Systems.
Read moreThe Endress+Hauser Group has strengthened its position in the South American market. The Swiss specialist for measurement engineering has invested more than €8m in a new production facility for flow, level and pressure measuring instruments in Brazil.
Read moreAs of 26 September 2013, Endress+Hauser holds 47.33% of shares in German-based Analytik Jena AG, 22.99% directly and 24.34% indirectly. Accordingly, the group is preparing a mandatory offer to the company's shareholders.
Read moreEndress+Hauser has released two white papers that are available as free downloads from Pharmaceutical-technology.com.
Read moreEndress+Hauser has announced the acquisition of US company Kaiser Optical Systems. The Swiss process automation specialist has signed an agreement with parent company Rockwell Collins. The deal is expected to be complete in the next months.
Read moreEndress+Hauser is manufacturing an increasing number of flowmeters in Suzhou, China, with due to demand from growth in the water and wastewater industry.
Read moreEndress+Hauser has again enjoyed strong growth in 2012. Operating worldwide, the measurement specialist achieved record-high figures in net sales, employment, profits and equity.
Read moreIt is not a contradiction to say that investments help to reduce costs. Customers of Endress+Hauser have saved up to 50% on their maintenance costs since the commercial launch of Memosens five years ago.
Read moreEndress+Hauser's inventors celebrate a record number of new patent applications. Four innovations that improve product flexibility and reliability have been recognised with awards.
Read moreThe specialist for measurement and automation engineering is in fine fettle in its 60th year: the family-owned company has just welcomed its 10,000th employee. In the last year alone, over 500 jobs were created worldwide.
Read moreAt Endress+Hauser we know that your needs go far beyond offering the best instrumentation for your application. Maintenance and documentation are important factors too, especially in the life sciences industry.
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Read moreBased on our tried and trusted online Device Viewer tool, our new mobile 'Operations' app offers fast access to a wealth of device-specific information on the go.
Read moreWith its vast product range and worldwide network of sales organisations, Endress+Hauser´s complexity management is one of the best: the specialist for measurement and automation engineering has won a Top Five award for complexity management from the University of St Gallen (HSG).
Read moreEndress+Hauser has been providing high level calibration solutions to the process industries for many years. To strengthen this position, the group has now acquired a minority share in Irish company CompuCal Calibration Solutions (CCS).
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Read moreODVA has announced that Endress+Hauser, one of the world's leading suppliers of measurement, automation equipment and solutions for the process industries, will become a principal member, joining leading suppliers Bosch Rexroth, Cisco Systems, Rockwell Automation, Omron and Schneider Electric.
Read moreEndress+Hauser has announced plans to further expand its Greenwood, IN, campus with additional manufacturing and support capabilities.
Read moreEndress+Hauser and the Irish National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training (NIBRT) have signed a collaboration contract.
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Read moreProcess automation specialist Endress+Hauser has acquired a stake in Finesse Solutions, a US company that develops, produces and distributes sensors, hardware and software for bioprocess engineering.
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Read moreThe new Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) annex, annex 11 revision 1 - computerized systems, will commence operations from 30 June 2011. The reason why annex 11 has been reviewed is because of the higher number of computerized systems in use and in development and their respective perma
Read moreEndress+Hauser's innovative Memosens digital sensors provide the ideal solution for accurate and reliable pH, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, chlorine and turbidity measurement. On 15 November 2010, the 200,000th Memosens sensor left our factory - further proof that Memosens is well-established i
Read moreA year ago Endress+Hauser had the pleasure of opening its European Center of Competence (CoC) dedicated to the life science industry. Located in Reinach, Switzerland, the center was inaugurated two years after the successful establishment of the American Center of Competence in Greenwood, Indiana
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Endress+Hauser is recognised as a leading partner of industrial measurement and automation equipment, providing services and solutions for industrial process engineering. Endress+Hauser responds effectively to all the standards required by the pharmaceutical industry. We understand you
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