China has continued to increase attention to information construction in recent years. The 13^th Five-year Plan Pharmaceutical Industry Development Planning Guide has set a clear target for "intelligent manufacturing": to significantly improve the automation and information levels of the pharmaceutical production, key technological process of large enterprises to basically achieve automation, the manufacturing execution system (MES) usage to reach above 30%, and to build a batch of demonstration workshops of intelligent manufacturing by 2020, which points out the direction for the future development of Chinese pharmaceutical enterprises.

Under the above opportunity, the P-MEC China 2018 hosted by UBM EMEA and China Chamber of Commerce for Import & Export of Medicines & Health Products (CCCMHPIE) and co-sponsored by Shanghai UBM Sinoexpo International Exhibition Co., Ltd. (UBM Sinoexpo) will again bring people engaging in pharmaceutical production and procurement from all over the world to learn about the industry’s latest technological development and seek exchange and cooperation on June 20-22, 2018 in Shanghai New International Expo Centre where the "Intelligent Plant Zone" will be launched.

Targeting global opportunities and exploring way to make breakthroughs

Chinese pharmaceutical manufacturing industry is facing the increasingly severe "bidirectional squeezing" challenge no matter in pharmaceutical economy or on the industry level, with the new situation brought by division of labor of global manufacturing industry represented by the "reindustrialization" strategy implemented by European and American developed countries and seizing of middle and low-end market by India, Vietnam and other developing countries, etc. Meanwhile, according to statistical data of GE Investment Analysis Report, the global productivity growth largely declined from 3% in 1996-2005 to 0.5% in 2011-2015. In the context that it has been unable to effectively improve enterprise productivity just by equipment transformation and management mode optimization, the increasingly mature intelligent plants will undoubtedly become an effective channel for the Chinese pharmaceutical industry to break the predicaments, in the face of productivity paradox. Under such background, the leading exhibition of the Asian pharmaceutical industry that takes professionalization, internationalization and high-end orientation as the core competitiveness--P-MEC China has gradually stepped into the intelligent plant area since 2015, to explore the way to make breakthroughs in the productivity plight together with Chinese pharmaceutical enterprises.

Building the Intelligent Plant Zone to lead the industry direction

Upon over 2 years of careful cultivation by the host, the intelligent manufacturing concept will combine with the intelligent logistics sector on 2018 exhibition site to be formally upgraded to the Intelligent Plant Zone in Hall N4. The zone will centrally showcase automation products represented by sensors, controllers, machine vision, mechanical transmission, robots, manipulators, inverters and instruments, etc., IT products that take MES, cGMP management system and ERP system, etc. as the core, and intelligent logistics products represented by automatic stereoscopic warehouse, automatic sorting technology, automated conveyor system, GPS location and tracking system, and AGV system, etc. In addition, P-MEC China will attract the participation of over 3,000 enterprises from pharmaceutical API, high-end preparation, TCM and health product industries, etc. together with CPhI China and HNC, to effectively help suppliers of the intelligent plant area rapidly expand pharmaceutical and health product industry market.

Online and offline activities to lead the industry hot topics

To better help Chinese pharmaceutical industry achieve the "Intelligent Manufacturing in China" concept and bring latest technology in the industry to Chinese and overseas visitors, the host will also carefully plan a series of theme activities including "China Intelligent Pharmaceuticals 2025 in the Eyes of Industry Experts" and "Latest Technology Introduction", etc. outside the exhibition period, besides the "P-MEC China Summit" that has been held for 6 sessions, wherein, the "China Intelligent Pharmaceuticals 2025 in the Eyes of Industry Experts" theme activity will be launched in October 2017 where pharmaceutical enterprises, consulting companies and intelligent plant solution providers will air own views via exhibition website and official WeChat account, etc. concerning hot topics such as "What intractable problems of the pharmaceutical industry will intelligent plants solve?", "What is the biggest difficulty for plants to achieve automatic and information transformation at present?", and "What shall pharmaceutical enterprises do at present to successfully walk on the automation and information road in the future?".

More wonderful exhibition activities are being updated. Visit www.p-mec.cn for the details. We look forward to meeting you again in Shanghai New International Expo Centre on June 20-22, 2018!

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