For Shenyang Lingyi Pharmaceutical Technology Co., Ltd., ensuring a unified, accurate, and reliable time base throughout its entire new, modern production facility, especially in critical areas such as cleanrooms and production workshops, was one of the primary challenges it faced.
This challenge manifested itself in the following aspects:
1. GMP Compliance Requirements: The pharmaceutical industry strictly adheres to GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) standards, requiring all production, testing, and equipment operation records to have accurate and tamper-proof timestamps. Any time discrepancies could lead to batch record confusion and serious risks during audits.
2. Production Process Coordination: Complex pharmaceutical production lines require numerous pieces of equipment to work in coordination. If the time across different systems is not synchronized, it can affect production efficiency at best, and at worst, lead to production interruptions or quality deviations.
3. Safety and Traceability Needs: From raw material warehousing to finished product shipment, precise time records are required throughout the entire process to enable effective traceability. In the event of any abnormal incidents, time information accurate to the second is crucial for troubleshooting and determining responsibility.
4. Employee Work Efficiency: Providing employees with clear and consistent visible time throughout the vast factory area helps standardize operating procedures and improves the efficiency of daily tasks such as shift changes and meetings.
Tianqiong Electronics Solutions: Integrated High-Precision Time Synchronization System
Addressing the stringent requirements of Lingyi Pharmaceuticals, Tianqiong Electronics provided a one-stop time synchronization solution centered around a GPS/BeiDou dual-mode clock source. The system consists of the following components:
High-Reliability Time Source: A master clock server is deployed in the data center, simultaneously receiving GPS and BeiDou satellite signals to obtain high-precision standard Beijing time, serving as the time base for the entire system. The dual satellite system provides mutual backup, ensuring the absolute reliability of the time source.
Factory-Wide Network Time Synchronization: The master clock has built-in NTP time server functionality, providing automatic and precise time synchronization for all network devices throughout the factory, including computer servers, DCS/SCADA control systems, access control systems, and video surveillance systems, via the enterprise local area network.
Critical Area Visible Clocks:
- Cleanrooms and Production Workshops: IP67-rated digital slave clocks are installed, providing clear displays that are easily visible from a distance. The devices are dustproof and moisture-proof, fully meeting the hygiene requirements of clean environments.
- Corridors and Public Areas: Aesthetically pleasing wall-mounted slave clocks are installed in high-traffic areas such as corridors and lobbies, providing employees with a unified time reference.
- This system architecture achieves full-link coverage from the signal source to the network core to the terminal display, ensuring high consistency between recorded data and the time displayed.
Core Value Created for the Customer
Since the launch of Tianqiong Electronics' time synchronization system, it has brought significant improvements to Shenyang Lingyi Pharmaceutical:
Complete Compliance with Audits: All production and inspection data and log timestamps originate from an unalterable, authoritative time source, easily passing GMP audits and safeguarding product quality.
Improved Production Management Efficiency: All factory equipment and system times are highly synchronized, eliminating process disruptions caused by time discrepancies and making production scheduling more precise and efficient.
Enhanced Security and Traceability: Whether it's video surveillance records or equipment operation logs, everything is based on a unified time axis, building a comprehensive traceability system and greatly improving the efficiency of investigating safety incidents.
Creating a standardized work environment: Clear and consistent sub-clock displays cultivate employees' precise sense of time, improving the overall standardization and coordination of work.
Customer Testimonial
"For the pharmaceutical industry, time is quality, safety, and even a lifeline. The time synchronization system provided by Tianqiong Electronics is not just a technical tool, but also a crucial foundation for building our quality management system. The system is stable, the display is clear, and the service team is professional and responsive. We are very satisfied with this collaboration." — Project Manager, Shenyang Lingyi Pharmaceutical Technology Co., Ltd.
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