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Title
Novo Nordisk uses machine learning and computer vision to automate pharmaceutical manufacturing quality checks
Novo Nordisk Uses ML for Computer Vision to Optimize Pharmaceutical Manufacturing on AWS Skip to main content Filter: All English Contact us AWS Marketplace Support My…
Description
Novo Nordisk, a Danish pharmaceutical company that supplies nearly 50 percent of the world's insulin, built an automated ML pipeline on AWS using Amazon SageMaker Pipelines to train, deploy, and monitor computer vision models on edge devices. The system automates previously manual tasks including counting drug cartridges in boxes and detecting bacterial anomalies on agar plates, using a robotic arm, camera rig, and edge inference, with results monitored via an Amazon QuickSight dashboard. The solution deploys ML models at scale to different edge devices, automates quality-assurance tasks, improves time to market, and was successfully repurposed from the cartridge-counting use case to the agar-plate anomaly detection use case with minimal changes.
…rations, enhancing quality, improving yield, and decreasing costs. To this end, Novo Nordisk is using computer vision combined with machine learning (ML) to automate key tasks on manufacturing lines, like cartridge counting and anomaly detection for agar plates, to reduce manual labor. On Amazon Web Services (AWS), Novo Nordisk has created a prototyping solution t…
Company
Novo Nordisk
…ves time to market Scales to support other quality-assurance use cases Overview Novo Nordisk A/S (Novo Nordisk) supplies nearly 50 percent of the world’s insulin. Digital technologies are critical to optimizing the company’s manufacturing ope…
Country
Denmark
…s Kristensen. “And we can do it in a fast and scalable way.” About Novo Nordisk Novo Nordisk A/S is a multinational pharmaceutical company based in Denmark. Founded in 1923, the organization makes and markets pharmaceutical products wit…
Industry
Life Sciences
…s Kristensen. “And we can do it in a fast and scalable way.” About Novo Nordisk Novo Nordisk A/S is a multinational pharmaceutical company based in Denmark. Founded in 1923, the organization makes and markets pharmaceutical products wit…
Problem
Novo Nordisk had explored ML to automate time-consuming manual manufacturing tasks, but the parts of its ML-development process ran locally on individual machines and were not interconnected, making it difficult to deploy models at scale and maintain them in production.
…ual tasks, but many of its processes were disconnected and difficult to scale. “We had all the parts of the ML-development process running locally on individual machines, from data processing to model training and even the manual transfer of the model to the edge devices,” says Carlos Ribera Codina, ML engineer at Novo Nordisk. “They were not interc…
Solution
On AWS, Novo Nordisk used Amazon SageMaker Pipelines to build an automated ML pipeline covering data processing, model training and tuning, evaluation, and deployment to edge devices via Amazon SageMaker Edge and Edge Manager, using AWS IoT Greengrass as the edge runtime and monitoring models in production with Amazon QuickSight and Amazon Timestream.
…on | Automating Key Quality-Assurance Tasks with ML and Computer Vision On AWS, Novo Nordisk created an automated ML pipeline that covers all the steps involved in the ML development process, from deployment to monitoring, while optimizing for scalability, customization, cost, and traceability. It used Amazon SageMaker Pipelines , the first purpose-built continuous integra…
Business value
The solution deploys ML models at scale to different edge devices, monitors them in production, and automates quality-assurance tasks such as cartridge counting and agar-plate anomaly detection, improving time to market; the cartridge-counting pipeline was successfully repurposed for the agar-plate use case with minimal changes, proving the approach could scale to other quality-assurance use cases.
…utcome | Using AWS Services to Streamline the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Line Novo Nordisk has successfully built an automated pipeline to deploy ML models at scale to different edge devices. The company is turning the cartridge-counting proof of concept into a productio…
AI capabilities
Computer Vision, Machine Learning
…rations, enhancing quality, improving yield, and decreasing costs. To this end, Novo Nordisk is using computer vision combined with machine learning (ML) to automate key tasks on manufacturing lines, like cartridge counting and anomaly detection for agar plates, to reduce manua…
Technology
Amazon SageMaker, Amazon S3, AWS IoT Greengrass, Amazon QuickSight
…kets pharmaceutical products with a focus on diabetes care and hormone therapy. AWS Services Used Amazon SageMaker Amazon SageMaker helps you build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) model…
Headline outcome
…s ML models at scale to different edge devices Monitors ML models in production Automates quality-assurance tasks Improves time to market Scales to support other quality-assurance use cases Ove…
Use case type
Visual inspection
…rations, enhancing quality, improving yield, and decreasing costs. To this end, Novo Nordisk is using computer vision combined with machine learning (ML) to automate key tasks on manufacturing lines, like cartridge counting and anomaly detection for agar plates, to reduce manua…
