Events – Pharma MES 2026
Designing for Performance — An Operations-First Framework for Value Realization
Pharma MES
Encore Boston Harbor, Everett, MA
Join Mike Cody, Director of Digital Life Science and Ann Morrow, Principal Innovation Consultant at ZAETHER
Day Two, Solution Study
3:50 PM – 4:20 PM | March 24th
Across pharma and biotech, many digital manufacturing and manufacturing execution programs clear validation and go live—yet still miss their throughput, release, and cost targets. Batches move, but value does not. The root cause is rarely a single system; it is the hidden gap between how facilities are built, how digital tools are configured, and how operations actually need to run day to day.
ZAETHER will introduce an operations first, digital-by-design framework that helps manufacturers unlock ROI from capital and digital investments by aligning people, workflows, and systems to the real production reality—not the project slide deck. In this presentation, we will unpack three critical “moments of truth” that make-or-break value realization: designing new facilities and digital platforms for performance, rescuing sites that are running but consistently missing plan, and scaling optimization without creating more operational debt. Using examples from clinical and commercial environments, attendees will see how deep-dive diagnostics, digital operations mapping, and pragmatic improvement roadmaps can turn “digital black boxes” into transparent, governable production systems.
The session will leave MES and operations leaders with a concrete pattern for diagnosing why their current stack is under‑delivering and how to systematically recover capacity, release velocity, and financial performance. In this session, you will learn more about:
- Bridging gaps between facility design, digital tools, and daily operations.
- Tackling key challenges in facility design, site recovery, and scaling optimization.
- Using diagnostics and roadmaps to make digital systems transparent and efficient.
Mike Cody
Director of Digital Life Science, Zaether
Ann Morrow
Principal Innovation Consultant – Life Science, Zaether
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