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摘要

Wireless technology is taking a firm hold in our daily lives, but to the food, drink and pharma industries, it has been a fact of life for many years. For Swiss pharmaceutical giant No-vartis, wireless technologies were an essential part of a revamp of a plant in north-east France, where the company makes Xolair, a biochemical agent for treating asthma.rnThe plant, in Huningue, uses a complex series of processes that are linked together over a large and awkward-to-manage area. The ingredient made at the plant is derived from genetically modified mammalian cells, which have to be cultured in a laboratory and then used in a fermentation process in larger bioreactors.