AGC Pharma Chemicals went paperless with a Siemens DCS and integrated electronic batch records.

Paper-based documentation was error-prone, slow and unsuited to growth and FDA expectations. The CDMO upgraded four Barcelona sites to Simatic PCS 7 with Simatic Batch eBR, capturing data from 80+ equipment units and 4,000+ tags. The page states more than 530 manual operator entries eliminated, fully digital documentation and no downtime during migration.

Siemens is an industrial technology group whose Opcenter MES, automation and digital twin software are used across pharma production and process development

This sits in the Ship stage of the AI use-case lifecycle: Named examples from the vendors pharma teams use to get an AI system live inside a real, regulated production workflow — validation, CRM, safety and clinical systems of record.