Yvonne Duckworth

CRB
Fellow - Digital Technology, Associate
Yvonne Duckworth is a world-renowned speaker and subject matter expert on Pharma 4.0.
She serves as co-chair for the ISPE Pharma 4.0™ Community of Practice, as well as an active member of Women in Pharma, Women in Bio, and ISA.
Yvonne is a registered automation engineer with 33 years of technical design and project leadership experience within the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. Her expertise includes developing overall control system strategy, instrumentation design, process control system design, control system network architecture design, control system programming, commissioning, validation, construction and start-up support activities.
She provides automation and digitalization strategic consulting for our clients, helping them to identify current pain points in their facilities, determine how digital technologies can address these areas, and develop a digitalization roadmap for implementation.
Additionally, Yvonne has extensive experience in vertical and horizontal system integration between systems including PCS, MES, Data Historian, ERP, LIMS, and others.

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