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IoT Opportunities in Science and Manufacturing
1. Connected Sensors, Predictive Analytics & Hands-free Interactions
Steve Woodward
IoT Tech Expo Global 2017 Jan 2017
IoT opportunities in Science and Manufacturing
2. Gartner: 21
billion in 2020
http://www.informationweek.com/mobile/mobile-devices/gartner-21-billion-iot-devices-to-invade-by-2020/d/d-id/1323081
3. AstraZeneca
A global science-led biopharmaceutical company
Our business is providing innovative, effective medicines
that make a real difference to patients
4. Technology Incubation Lab
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Drive Technology
Leadership
• Accelerate innovation
culture
• Support learning between
functional silos
• Position IT as a strategic
partner
Bring Emerging
Technology In
• Reframe problems
• Leverage new
technology to improve
operations
• Exploit new business
opportunities
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External
Perspective
• Tech Trends
• Best practice
• Pharma and other
industries
• Potentially disruptive
developments
trends start-ups
VCs presentations
news register
showcase tools
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scout validate
proof of concepts
5. Technology has already disrupted other industries
Mobile service that
enabled you to find
better ways to travel
On-demand, app-
based legal music
distribution through
streaming
Go-to-device, more
intimate, shocked the
PC industry
Displaced telecoms
companies through
free chat
Displaced retailers
and changed home
entertainment
Online rental service
to enable you to rent
and find vacation
homes
6. Healthcare will be no exception
Opened their own lab to
test own drug treatments
Major tech companies
sharing better analysis tools
Pivoted from photos to
printing stem cells !
Major tech companies
creating Joint Ventures
14. AZ Cambridge Biomedical Centre
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$500+ million dollar
investment
~1600 AZ & MedImmune
R&D science jobs
on site
>12,000 Healthcare roles
working at CBC
IoT Fundamental to the running of the building
17. Helping to Secure our Supply Chain
Sensors to provide geo-location in real-time, any time, any where
18. Opportunities in our production network
Manufacturing and optimisation
Packing line / weight / camera technology
Massive opportunity for us optimise our production
*packing line picture*
*forklift scales*
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Monitoring efficiency of our critical processes and equipment
19. Equipment Monitoring
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Hands on evaluations for new solutions and partners
Replacing manual
monitoring for fridges
and Incubators
Testing in real world
conditions in local labs
Historical trend
visualisation
20. “Data is only as good as the
access to it and the
understanding you can
derive from it.”
Voice Directed Technologies
allow workers on the packing
line direct access to IoT
information.
27. Hackathons – Access the untapped skillsets
2727
Sensors and Wearables will become more and more embedded in day
to day life. Hackathons give us the opportunity to turn our thinking
sideways and showcase what is possible.
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We aim to run 1 per quarter, either against partners, or between internal teams. We see
this as a way to access and identify talent and to spark the imagination of all participants.
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We are currently scouting for disruptive 10X technologies
Start-ups Venture Capitals Institutes Innovative Companies
A.I. Digital Health Creative Tech Big Data IoT DevOps
Thank You & Questions!
Steve Woodward steven.woodward@astrazeneca.com
Chris Evans christopher.evans@astrazeneca.com
UK Tech Lab Director nick.brown@astrazeneca.com
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it from your system and note that you must not copy, distribute or take any action in reliance on it. Any unauthorized use or disclosure of the
contents of this file is not permitted and may be unlawful. AstraZeneca PLC, 1 Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus,
Cambridge, CB2 0AA, UK, T: +44(0)203 749 5000, www.astrazeneca.com
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Editor's Notes
You may not have heard of us, we’re a biopharmaceutical company with Research & Development at our very core.
In 2015 we spent £5.6 Billion in R&D to bring innovative and effective medicines to patients
We follow the science. We put patients first. They are at the centre of everything we do.
After patent challenges for a number of years, we now have one of the most promising product pipelines in the industry across our therapy areas of RIA, CVMD and Oncology.
So how do we go about the business of Technology Incubation
1) We have a very strong external focus, engaging with startups, venture capitals and disruptive technologies
2) We engage with the business
We exist to catalyse the best technology across AZ
We’ve put together a Tech Incubation Network where we invite innovative people across IT and the business to share.
We’re putting together a physical lab space to demonstrate technologies such as 3D printing, beacon technology and augmented reality
When we’re scouting for new technology, vendor presentations are recorded and shared with the rest of AZ
3) We employ design thinking and best practice User Experience research to locate and understand the business problems that would benefit from emerging technologies – the problem drives everything rather than the tech.
We’re fast, we’re agile, we’re very hands-on.
We make sure technology does what it says
We scout for disruptive technologies that have true 10X potential to give us competitive advantage
When we look at other industries, we see the massive disruption
When we look at connecting our labs, we can see the need for a multi tiered approach
Monitoring
Automation
Utilisation
Predictive Maintenance
But we also have a lot of legacy equipment we want to connect, to pull data from and where possible automate
Connecting basic equipment like PH Balances, syncing data automatically to our electronic lab books. Its not the sexy big equipment but has a big impact and frees up space for more work
Using motion capture to see how much things are used or smart buttons for re-supplying materials.
Picture of new Cambridge site
Utilization data affecting our equipment choices with move to new site – making sure space is dedicated to most used equipment
A showcase for accessible science and should be with our technology strategy and choices
But we are also a global manufacturing and supply network
29 sites in 17 markets
With such a huge volume of stock demanded its vital we keep our manufacturing lines available and in good operating order
Operations now manage the logistics and supply chain for extremely high value assets (such as sensitive biologics) and are looking to use real or near realtime tracking globally.
We already have regulatory requirements for tracking temperature in our shipments but now we are looking at active monitoring to prevent theft and stock issues.
Counterfeiting and supply issues hurt more than just our bottom line – it affects our patients and we have a moral duty to get our products to them.
We need a reliable way
Moving to smaller batches for personalised medicines, reducing our changeover times.
Long term ambitions to move to predictive maintenance – equipment has more than a revenue impact, it means we can’t get critical medicines to patients in a timely manner.
Lots of sensors already in place but not connected, still lots of manual monitoring or adjustment to packing equipment. We could potentially connect it all.
Helium overview
Role of UX – not only useful but tools our scientists like using and pick up with minimal support.
Moving from reactive to proactive maintenance and already seeing the impact