在八个生产设施中拥有750多名员工，COMAR是一个快速增长的包装和设备制造商，用于多个医疗保健应用。它的产品包括医疗设备和组件，诊断加工和包装解决方案，库存和定制瓶，剂量杯，汤匙，滴管组件，口服注射器，封闭式和总分配系统。
Stock and custom bottles are among Comar’s specialties.对于COMAR至关重要，ISO 13485：2016和9001：2015认证公司是广泛使用数据来管理质量保证，决策，审计和通讯的数据。这种数据驱动的制造方法的核心是他们的ERP软件IQM。
“We’re a metrics-driven organization and have robust business systems in place that provide us access to real-time dashboards that are fully integrated with our IQMS ERP data,” says Scott Conklin, Comar Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing. “These web-enabled dashboards are refreshed every 15 minutes and are set up to proactively alert decision makers to recognize success—for example, a record day in production—or to bring attention to a tool, machine, or process that is not performing to our expectations.”
COMAR’s focus is beyond remedial actions, preferring the benefits that preventive and predictive behaviors deliver. For instance, “IQMS has a module for implementing preventive maintenance,” says Tom Sine, Comar Business Systems Manager. “So when a machine or mold is running, the hours or cycles it runs are counted. With this kind of data at our fingertips, we can trigger preventive maintenance on machines and tools before issues arise.”
Sine补充说：“当我们获取并将新设施带入混合物时，IQM也很有帮助。”尽管我们的业务运营越来越复杂，但我们的ERP系统的可见性和可扩展性为我们提供了导致更快决策的数据的访问。我们可以在八个不同的工厂中查看同一件事，并能够评估绩效并迅速做出业务决策。我们的客户绝对重视这种速度和敏捷性。”
COMARreceives, on average, five requests per month for customer audits, and the majority are in the healthcare and life sciences field. Using the traceability functionality in the ERP system provides Comar with an easily used document library and production data to handle these customer requests and make audits efficient. “Being able to quickly and efficiently point to and document how raw materials and other supplies make their way through our manufacturing operation into finished goods inventory and ultimately into packaging arriving at our customers’ doors is huge,” stated Linda Kershner, Comar Plant Manager, Buena, NJ.
COMAR的客户已经习惯了在IQMS ERP系统中审核期间查看纠正措施报告。审计师是否需要有关树脂批次的精确数据；确切的时间和一天产生了零件；员工做了什么工作；或使用ERP系统存储的实时数据收到的培训，COMAR可以访问信息以回答他们的问题。
In addition to driving manufacturing efficiencies through its data-driven approach, Comar has made strides in sustainable packaging initiatives. For example, the firm recently collaborated with equipment vendors to improve process control on innovating a new injection stretch blow molded bottle for gummy vitamins; the amount of resin needed per bottle has been reduced by up to 20% depending on the bottle size.
