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Preventive Maintenance Kits Assist Novo Nordisk

The company jointly develops kits with Bosch Packaging Services to reduce downtime and increase efficiency on its Clayton, NC vial filling line.

Companies such as Novo Nordisk are supported by Bosch, which develops customized maintenance plans to ensure that all equipment operates smoothly.
Companies such as Novo Nordisk are supported by Bosch, which develops customized maintenance plans to ensure that all equipment operates smoothly.

Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company based in Denmark, with more than 90 years of expertise in diabetes care, bleeding and growth hormone-related disorders, and obesity. It markets products in more than 180 countries, with U.S. headquarters in Plainsboro, NJ.

At its Novo Nordisk Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc. facility in Clayton, NC, the production process includes product formulation, followed by aseptic filling of vials and cartridges, inspection and packaging. Novo Nordisk also assembles and packages prefilled insulin devices for the U.S. market. The Clayton site uses three complete filling lines for liquid pharmaceuticals from Bosch Packaging Technology. Injectable products are packaged and sealed on two cartridge lines and one vial line.

To ensure that their machines keep running smoothly, manufacturing companies count on regular maintenance intervals. Special Preventive Maintenance Kits further help to have all required spare parts available at the right intervals. By combining the pharmaceutical manufacturer’s application-oriented viewpoint with the experience of Bosch Packaging Services, the companies developed a tailor-made solution with a positive effect on the workflow.

Taking maintenance strategy one step further

Novo Nordisk’s vial filling line is equipped with a Bosch RRN 3084 vial washing machine, a HQL 3480 sterilization tunnel, a FSM 2700 filling machine and a VRK 4010 capping machine.

“In order to increase the lifespan of our machines and to improve their cost effectiveness, we execute regular maintenance shutdowns twice a year,” explains Jim Buckley, Novo Nordisk Reliability Engineer. During one of these shutdowns, the company started developing its own PM Kits for three key machines—washing, filling and capping—to take the company’s preventive maintenance strategy one step further.

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