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Conference heron::euro_swas_ai

Title:Europe-Swas-Artificial-Intelligence
Moderator:HERON::BUCHANAN
Created:Fri Jun 03 1988
Last Modified:Thu Aug 04 1994
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:442
Total number of notes:1429

250.0. "Pharmaceutical Industry references?" by HERON::ROACH (TANSTAAFL !) Mon Nov 12 1990 12:55

    We have a lead with the IS Director for the Chemical Division of a
    major pharmaceutical concern. Could anyone point me to other examples
    of advanced technology usage (AI/ES/NN/etc) in this industry? I
    have already read an earlier not concerning the Protien Folding
    problem.
    
    Thanks!
    
    Pat
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250.1pharmaceuticalsISTG::ESIS::KELLYMon Nov 12 1990 16:1845
       Greetings Pat,
    
       Three pharmaceutical projects done here.
       Two US, one European company.
       We have KEs specializing in financial services, steel manufacture,
       pipeline scheduling, educational/tutorial, etc. But nobody for
       pharmaceuticals yet. However, the KE for two of these projects was
       Gregg Germain (ESIS::). He might have more info for you. Not sure.
    
       US company:
        Project: Automated QSAR
        Purpose: Presently highly experienced chemists render opinions on a
                 test set of compounds under development.  These opinions
                 indicate the payback associated with pursuing a particular
                 line of research.  The expert system will automate this
                 procedure.
        Reason: Present personnel assigned to this task are overloaded. In
                addition, the entire research process can be made more
                efficient if the chemists working on the compounds can
                perform parts of the QSAR at will.
        Tools/Language: Epitool    
    
        European company
        Domain: Pharmaceuticals: Vitamin additives
        Project: Pig farm - pig production diagnostic
        Purpose: Help Desk and Field Personnel Assistance Advisory System
        for offering recommendations on Health, management and
        production on pig farms.
        Reason: To enhance the pharmaceutical company's position in the 
        farm feeds additives market by providing farmers with diagnostic 
        capability on their farms.
        Tools/Languages: Nexpert
    
        US company
        Project: Laboratory Scheduling
        Purpose: To aid production control personnel in the scheduling of a
                 particularly complex laboratory/work center on the factory 
                 floor.
        Reason: To eliminate a sore spot in manufacturing, to increase
                   productivity and decrease response time.
        Tools/Languages:  OPS5 and C
    
    
Dikk