Pharmaceutical and BioTech

This Blog contains all things relevant to Dream Report in the Pharmaceutical and Biotech marketplace.

What’s a Batch? To Start, any process that has an indeterminate start and end time.

The first definition of a batch needs to begin with a process that has a variable start and end time.  The two may be linked, for example a variable start and a known process that ends a defined period later, or it may be a process that ends on any [...]

What’s a Batch? To Start, any process that has an indeterminate start and end time.2018-02-10T17:43:48+00:00

Reports shouldn’t just be static documents generated automatically.

You may think a report is a static document that is defined and run on time or event. Yes, inferior solutions work that way. But Dream Report is a superior solution. When you create a Dream Report, you automatically get lots of flexibility, with no extra effort at all. For [...]

Reports shouldn’t just be static documents generated automatically.2018-02-10T17:51:11+00:00

5 Myths of Automated Report Generation

5 Myths of Automated Industrial Reports and Dashboards Automated Report Generation is Hard Not Flexible Enough to be an All Encompassing Solution Not Reliable Enough for Automated 24x7x365 Operation Won't Integrate with Existing Automation Systems Report Generators are Not Event or Batch Aware   Let’s take these one at a [...]

5 Myths of Automated Report Generation2019-01-21T15:46:51+00:00

National Instruments (NI) TestStand Report Generator

TestStand™ is a solution by National Instruments for Report Generation in Test Stand applications. While it will certainly get the job done, it is a great example of what we see across industry, solutions developed to solve individual problems, that are just good enough to get the job done. But [...]

National Instruments (NI) TestStand Report Generator2018-02-10T22:12:22+00:00

Are you up to speed with your PDF?

Dream Report supports a variety of output styles. You can generate reports in HTML5 for use in the Dream Report Web Portal. You can generate output in an Excel file format. You can generate output in a CSV file format. You can generate output in a PDF (Portable Document Format) [...]

Are you up to speed with your PDF?2018-02-10T22:16:15+00:00

Accessing Data that’s Hard to Access…

Getting data to the right people at the right time is the ultimate goal of Dream Report.  It is smart enough to recognize an event, collect the right data, analyze it - format it and then deliver it.  Dream Report supports over 60 drivers to a wide range of both [...]

Accessing Data that’s Hard to Access…2018-02-10T22:18:05+00:00

Food Processing – What’s Worse? Two Year Product Recall or Company Name in the News?

Food Production Monitoring is so easy to do in Dream Report.  A few thermocouples connected to an I/O module and Dream Report will handle the communications, log the data to a Relational Database, Generate the compliance report at the end of every batch and save it to your server and [...]

Food Processing – What’s Worse? Two Year Product Recall or Company Name in the News?2017-11-23T11:20:32+00:00

Need to justify a project? Instrument the Process First to Create a Baseline.

Every major project should start with the same effort, an activity to quantify the current state, so that you have the measurements needed to compare against the future state.  In many projects, the item that creates your baseline is actually the item you are replacing or improving.  It can be [...]

Need to justify a project? Instrument the Process First to Create a Baseline.2018-02-10T22:20:01+00:00

New Life for Your Aging Automation Systems

Layering Value Is the Best Way to Enhance an Existing Automation System Lets face it, your automation platforms are expensive and you don't have the opportunity to have a "Do Over".  That means you need to focus on layered technology to enhance the value of an existing system, be it a Distributed [...]

New Life for Your Aging Automation Systems2018-02-10T22:21:35+00:00

Report Generator with Barcode Capability

Making Reports Actionable, Reducing Errors and Improving Ease of Use That's what QR Codes and Bar Codes are all about.  QR Codes (Quick Response Codes) are finding their way into all manner of applications and can transfer a great deal of information.  They are often used to convey links for [...]

Report Generator with Barcode Capability2018-02-10T22:30:54+00:00
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