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Shire Biopharmaceuticals

• Shire received FDA approval for a new pharmaceutical product and had to act quickly to build a plant to produce the new offering.  They needed a wireless system with the ability to scale up quickly, and with proven technical capabilities.

• Shire selected wireless stations built on ISA100 Wireless technology rather than the more traditional hardened wash-down enclosures.
• Installed 23 wireless stations and 1 mesh network

• Fast network implementation
• Reduced maintenance costs relative to wired alternative.
• Reduced personnel needed for commissioning and start up, saving money.
• Highly flexible network, allowing the plant to change direction quickly and easily with minimal cost incurred.
• Wireless allows Shire to effectively focus resources on critical plant areas and quickly adapt and change operating and commissioning priorities, allowing schedules to be compressed as required by market demand.
• Reduced equipment cost, including computer and enclosure costs, software licensing fees, and the often overlooked annual operation expenses for a business computer, which can be 3-5 times the hardware cost of the computer.