Merck KGaA

Overview

German pharmaceutical and life sciences company where Michelangelo Canzaneri led digital transformation, deploying digital twins and predictive maintenance across CMC and manufacturing plants. Merck KGaA built an end-to-end data visualization layer for CMC and manufacturing, then introduced large language models and built ontologies through external industry consortia, enabling its first digital twins. Merck's digital twin implementation reduced experimentation by 50% per molecule in CMC labs, demonstrating concrete productivity improvement after foundational data infrastructure and ontologies were established. (Segment 4 (15:00-20:00))