Applied Materials provides pharma manufacturers an opportunity to take advantage of the lessons learned over decades of experience in the semiconductor industry, to quickly accelerate pharma manufacturers through the evolution of manufacturing.  SmartFactory Rx is a suite of advanced manufacturing software which enables pharma companies to achieve unprecedented levels of productivity, quality and compliance from their plants and supply chain refined through 30 years of leadership based on Industry 4.0 principles.  The suite is a multi-source IIoT data & application integration platform which provides: advanced process analytics & control, real-time production planning & scheduling, maintenance management including predictive & prescriptive maintenance, and knowledge management for creating a continuous learning environment for knowledge capture and reuse.  Solutions can be rapidly implemented by non-programmers on this intelligent and flexible platform to enable data-driven decisions from the shop floor to top floor.