Camstar’s Manufacturing Platform to Support Commercialization, Production Volume and Quality Enforcement

CHARLOTTE, N.C.–Camstar Systems, Inc. announced today that Pacific Biosciences, a leader in the development of a transformative Single Molecule Real Time (SMRT™) DNA sequencing platform, has selected the Camstar Manufacturing™ enterprise software platform to enable its critical transition from product development to high-volume production, and to ensure consistent top product quality.

As an industry innovator, Pacific Biosciences is growing rapidly, and the scalable manufacturing platform will enable the company to shorten time-to-volume and rapidly develop, roll out and enforce best practices across new production lines and plants.

“Pacific Biosciences is committed to delivering innovative products with the highest price performance in the industry,” said Bruce Leisz, Vice President of Operations and Program Management for Pacific Biosciences. “Camstar’s manufacturing execution platform will provide visibility and consistent control over our expanding manufacturing processes and resources. Access to a rich set of intelligence about our processes accelerates our ability to continuously innovate and improve.”

“Camstar is seeing rapid adoption of our solutions across the most innovative Diagnostics and Biotechnology industries,” said Jason Adams, Camstar’s Vice President of Sales for North America and Europe. “As companies commercialize their breakthrough products, they realize that achieving consistently high product quality in the midst of highly complex processes requires a comprehensive platform for manufacturing execution and quality.”

See Camstar’s Enterprise Platform for Advancing Product Quality, configured specifically for Biotechnology.

About Pacific Biosciences

Pacific Biosciences’ mission is to transform the way humankind acquires processes and interprets data from living systems. The company has developed a disruptive technology platform for the real-time detection of biological events at single molecule resolution. Single Molecule Real Time (SMRT™) Biology promises to revolutionize the life sciences by revealing the underlying networks that define living systems. The first application for the SMRT Biology platform is a paradigm changing approach to DNA sequencing. The SMRT Sequencing System will ultimately make it possible to sequence individual genomes as part of routine medical care. DNA sequencing is expected to be the first of many transformative SMRT Biology applications that will benefit society by driving radical advances in fields such as personalized medicine, agriculture, clean energy, and global health.

About Camstar Systems, Inc.

Camstar is the largest innovator of software solutions that advance product quality, including manufacturing execution, process planning, enterprise quality management, and manufacturing intelligence. Camstar serves hundreds of satisfied customers worldwide, including Abbott, AMD, Amkor, Arcelor, Beijing SE PMC, BIOTRONIK, Boston Scientific, Canadian Solar, Emcore, Hitachi, IBM, Kodak, Life Technologies, MiaSole, NXP, Q-Cells, Roche, SanDisk, Xilinx and Zeiss.

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