About

Catherine Thacker, PEng, is the Director of Pre-Automation Solutions for ATS Automation. She has provided pre-automation services for ATS since 2006. Prior to ATS, Ms Thacker held various positions with several major life sciences manufacturers, building her expertise in project management, construction, organisational design, production planning and management, facility and maintenance operations, technical transfer, product launches and validation.

Contributions

WEARABLES

MITIGATING RISK TO DELIVER SUCCESS IN HIGH-VOLUME WEARABLE DEVICES

Catherine Thacker and Bill Jaworski discuss risk reduction solutions in the manufacturing architecture for wearable injectors, including an example where autonomous intelligent vehicles and ATS‘s real-time industrial IoT manufacturing intelligence system, Illuminate®, were employed.

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INDUSTRIALISATION

AUTOMATING PREVIOUSLY IMPOSSIBLE MANUAL INSPECTIONS USING MACHINE LEARNING & CONCURRENT VALIDATION

Steve Wardell and Catherine Thacker explore how machine learning technology is enabling the automation of challenging, or previously impossible, manual inspections.

INDUSTRIALISATION

INDUSTRIALISING DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS – A RISK-BASED APPROACH

Catherine Thacker and Tom Hayes discuss ATS Automation’s methodology for developing a manufacturing strategy for a drug delivery device, from fresh design to mass-produced product.