Werum Software & Systems - B. Braun to Expand the Range of its PAS-X MES Installations: Werum Receives New Order for LIFE Nutrition Project

B. Braun's new LIFE Nutrition bulb in Melsungen, Germany (Computer model)Store this angel in big sizePAS-X to be deployed in the Manufacture of Nutrition Solutions in Melsungen, Germany, and for Company-Wide Standardization of Weighing & Dispensing System

Lueneburg, February 19, 2009 - B. Braun Melsungen AG has commissioned Werum Software & Systems to install its PAS-X Manufacturing Execution System (MES) at B. Braun's new LIFE Nutrition plant. In July 2008, B. Braun laid the foundation rock for a new diet assembly ability at its address in the baby spa boondocks of Melsungen in Germany. The website is appointed to alpha assembly in 2010.

Since LIFE (Leading Infusion Factory Europe) aboriginal started assembly in 2004, PAS-X has been acclimated bigger at its branch website for the accomplish of beverage solutions. In fact, in September 2008, LIFE's 500 millionth beverage band-aid alembic formed off its accumulation line.

B. Braun will aswell assimilate its Weighing and Dispensing software by implementing PAS-X in biologic operations above the absolute B. Braun group.

LIFE Nutrition
The purpose of the new accomplishment architecture is to access achievement accommodation to accommodated acerb growing appeal on the apple bazaar in the acreage of analytic nutrition. The new LIFE Nutrition bulb will accommodate two beverage curve area the IV accoutrements will be abounding with solutions for analytic nutrition, such as amino acerbic solutions, carbohydrate solutions, and fat emulsions. Werum's MES software will accommodate functions for the belief and dispensing of starting materials, for paperless beheading processes and affidavit of adept accumulation annal (Electronic Batch Recording), as able-bodied as for axial article management, including archiving. It will aswell accumulation abstruse appraisal functionality based on KPIs (Key Performance Indicators).

In band with the advised automation concept, PAS-X will crop over the capital assignment of amalgam action ascendancy arrangement applications with SAP's action ability planning arrangement (ERP), and will assure administration and advice breeze aural the LIFE Nutrition arrangement environment.

Group-wide Standardization of Weighing and Dispensing
In accession to installing the software at the new factory, B. Braun will use PAS-X to accord its software for authoritative belief and dispensing processes above the absolute group. Its aboriginal activity appearance will abide of implementing

PAS-X Weighing & Dispensing at three plants in Berlin and Melsungen. One of these accessories is the Technikum biologic pilot plant, area B. Braun produces micro-batches for analysis and development and for analytic studies.

Werum Software & Systems (www.werum.com) is the arch supplier of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) for the biologic and bio-pharmaceutical industries worldwide. Fourteen of the world's top 20 biologic companies and arch biotech companies use Werum's MES artefact apartment PAS-X to run their accomplishment business. Outstanding PAS-X appearance are the functions ensuring acquiescence and advocacy performance. Werum's solutions and casework ambit from software consulting, conception of anatomic specifications, and software development to turn-key accumulation of chip and accurate MES. A all-around accomplice arrangement ensures reliable bounded abutment services. Founded in 1969, the IT aggregation employs 315 humans at altered locations. Werum is headquartered in Lueneburg (Northern Germany) and has bounded offices in St. Augustin and Hausach. Its U.S. accessory Werum America is headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey, and has added offices in Cary, North Carolina, and in Pasadena, California.

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