Data-driven Medical Packaging Manufacturing

Having readily available, real-time data on manufacturing operations has brought numerous benefits to this premier packaging, device, and component supplier.

Comar machines
With more than 750 employees across eight production facilities, Comar needs to have real-time data on manufacturing operations right at their fingertips.


With more than 750 employees across eight production facilities, Comar is a fast-growing manufacturer of packaging and devices for multiple healthcare applications. Its products include medical devices and components, diagnostic processing and packaging solutions, stock and custom bottles, dosage cups, spoons, dropper assemblies, oral syringes, closures, and total dispensing systems.

Stock and custom bottles are among Comar’s specialties.Stock and custom bottles are among Comar’s specialties.Critical to Comar, an ISO 13485:2016 and 9001:2015 certified company, is the extensive use of data for managing quality assurance, decision-making, audits, and communications. At the heart of this data-driven approach to manufacturing is their ERP software from IQMS.

“We’re a metrics-driven organization and have robust business systems in place that provide us access to real-time dashboards that are fully integrated with our IQMS ERP data,” says Scott Conklin, Comar Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing. “These web-enabled dashboards are refreshed every 15 minutes and are set up to proactively alert decision makers to recognize success—for example, a record day in production—or to bring attention to a tool, machine, or process that is not performing to our expectations.”

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