Building on insights from CRB’s Horizons: Life Sciences 2025 report, this second installment of our conversation with Peter Walters, Fellow of Advanced Therapies at CRB, explores the modalities driving forward momentum across the life sciences industry, the expanding role of standardization in manufacturing networks, and how tariffs and domestic investment strategies are shaping the future of pharma manufacturing.

If you missed Part One, catch our discussion on the rise of continuous manufacturing and its growing adoption across large pharma.

Based on insights from CRB’s Horizons: Life Sciences 2025 report, this episode of Off Script: A Pharma Manufacturing Podcast features a conversation with Peter Walters, Fellow of Advanced Therapies at CRB. Walters discusses how the industry is advancing toward continuous manufacturing, highlighted by a key finding from the report — 65% of large companies are pursuing end-to-end continuous manufacturing.

This is part one of a two-part series. In part two, dropping Oct. 14, 2025, Walters will return to explore advanced therapies, tariffs, and regulatory changes shaping the global pharma manufacturing landscape.

Smart manufacturing is “nearly universal” with 95% of manufacturers saying they are using or evaluating smart technology, according to a new survey from Rockwell Automation.