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Episode description

On today’s episode, we’re joined by John Perrigue, who is the Head of Digital Operations & Smart Manufacturing - Life Sciences at EMD Millipore and Senior Director at Johnson & Johnson, Digital Process Design. We talk about:

  • How John first got involved with simulation and testing at Johnson & Johnson.
  • How J&J uses digital twins and the benefits of this.
  • How J&J’s simulation capacity grew and scaled over time.
  • Tackling the human element involved in scaling.
  • Do you need a Ph.D. to use Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)?
  • Did Covid accelerate the use of simulation in the pharmaceutical industry?
  • What is the endgame for automation optimization?
  • The benefit to patients from this technology.


John Perrigue - https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-perrigue/


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