Dirk leads TechOps for the third biggest and fastest growing pharmaceutical company in Switzerland. Vifor Pharma has five manufacturing sites and about 700 people in Tech Ops. Dirk joined Vifor Pharma in 2012, coming from Astra Zeneca where he lead the Asia Pacific/Japan Manufacturing & Supply and their global Lean & Operational Excellence Program. Prior to that he was with Bristol Myers-Squibb and Bayer HealthCare. He will introduce a real “smart manufacturing” application for which Vifor Pharma is the global pilot. Using Augmented Reality technology, the system developed by Goodly Innovations helps Vifor Pharma to significantly reduce set up and change-over times and more…