As a pharmaceutical or food & beverage manufacturer, can you prove that every product was produced correctly, every time?
In these industries, quality must be built into the entire process. When it’s not, the risk doesn’t usually come from major failures, but from small lapses during execution:
• A missed check
• Equipment used before it’s ready
• A process parameter slightly out of range
Individually, these issues may not stop production, but they often emerge during QC processes or food safety audits, when their consequences are magnified. This is why structured MES systems and automation platforms are essential for quality process control: they guarantee adherence to every step, provide real-time visibility, and deliver a verifiable record of execution.
Without this structure, quality becomes overly dependent on manual oversight. In high-throughput environments, that’s precisely where risk and variability can take hold. In pharma and food & beverage, you must be able to prove it was produced right every time without fail.
How much of your process is enforced by the system, and how much still relies on manual checks?
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The automation standards modern system integrators should be following in 2027
Eight control system standards were introduced or substantially revised between 2023 and 2026. The four that matter most to system integrators are ANSI/ISA-112.00.01-2025, which gives SCADA its first dedicated lifecycle framework; IEC 62443-2-4:2023, which sets cybersecurity requirements for the integrators and service providers themselves rather than for the products they install; IEC 61131-3:2025 Edition 4, the first major revision to PLC programming languages since 2013; and IEC 61512-1:2026, which replaces the 1997 batch control models. Alongside them sit IEC 63303:2024 for HMI design, IEC 62381:2024 and IEC 62382:2024 for testing and loop checks, and ANSI/ISA-95.00.01-2025 for enterprise-to-control-system integration.