Multinational Pharmaceutical Company

Increased production line capacity by 11% through data analysis and ML modelling avoiding the need for significant CapEx investment to build new line

Challenge

• Manufacturing line running out of production capacity
• Significant CapEx investment needed to keep up with demand
• Goal to increase production by 5% through advanced analytics only

Solution

• Conducted exploratory data analysis to get good idea of production line and its overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)
• Prioritised most promising actionable levers to increase OEE with domain experts and simulations
• ML modelling, root-cause analysis, anomaly detection & optimisation
• Report detailing approach and gain for each lever

Business impact

• 22 improvement levers investigated in total; 6 retained and 3 implemented
• Improvements implemented led to faster overall production process
• 11% yield improvement
• 200 million extra tablets produced each year → CHF 40+mio in increased revenue
• 15x ROI