Process and Automation

The UK’s Centre for Process Innovation is collaborating with partners GSK and AstraZeneca to establish a continuous wet granulation manufacturing facility for small-scale development of oral solid-dosage pharmaceuticals.

The Quartic Platform is a new, AI-powered smart manufacturing platform that can be integrated into legacy facilities and manufacturing processes.

Moving from paper-based to digitalized processes is the first step to enabling quality management and manufacturing to work in sync.

The GE Healthcare and Rockwell Automation collaboration will help meet the needs of the biopharma 4.0 era.

New technologies in the digital factory enhance quality, efficiency, and flexibility for bio/pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Eli Lilly and Company experts share the vision and the value of the digital plant for pharmaceutical manufacturing.

System connectivity and data analysis drive increased productivity in pharma manufacturing.

Valitacell and Solentim, have announced a collaboration aimed at the acceleration of discovery and development of biologic drugs and advanced cell therapies.

Spectroscopic-based control methods were introduced as equivalent alternative methods, first to a gas chromatographic method to monitor an in-process solvent exchange step and second to a potentiometric titration method to release a process input material for drug substance manufacturing.

Technical advances in process understanding and control must be accompanied by a change in mindset.

New alert customization and expanded Open Platform Communication support in Emerson’s DeltaV Mobile app improve notification and third-party system monitoring.

Tornado Spectral Systems, winner of the 2018 CPhI Excellence in Pharma Award for Analysis, Testing, and Quality Control, discusses real-time process measurement for biopharmaceutical and small-molecule drug manufacturing.

TrendMiner 2018.R2 software for analysis of time-series data includes the ContextHub platform for expanded, self-service analytics capabilities.

AqVida, winner of the 2018 CPhI Excellence in Pharma Award for manufacturing technology and equipment, identifies advantages of robotics compared to conventional automation in fill/finish operations.

To improve production in pharmaceutical manufacturing, the IT, OT, and Quality functional groups must work together to get the most value from existing plant data.

Collaborative robots work beside laboratory employees to improve efficiency in pharmaceutical research and quality control labs.

By reducing the number of assays needed and allowing product quality attributes to be measured end to end, MAM promises to allow users to gain product and process understanding much sooner than they could in the past, and to ensure quality and safety in a more efficient, streamlined way, throughout the product life cycle.

Mechanistic process and product modeling turns data into knowledge that can be extrapolated with known confidence for design space characterization and risk assessment.

Collaborative robots work beside laboratory employees to improve efficiency in pharmaceutical research and quality control labs.

Non-destructive surface area measurement can improve stability testing.

Preventing problems in implementing a manufacturing execution system requires upfront analysis and detailed planning.

The companies partnered to build a 500-L single-use pilot-scale plant for biologics production.

New software tools by Tecan, a provider of automated laboratory instruments and solutions, complement each other to enhance process monitoring of its liquid-handling platforms.

FDA awarded nearly $3 million in grants for continuous manufacturing and other advanced manufacturing technologies as part of the agency’s efforts to ensure a robust and reliable supply of biological products.

Lonza’s new PyroTec Pro Robotic Solution provides a fully automated workflow for endotoxin detection.

Automated robotic arms manipulate nested trays and containers inside closed aseptic filling systems.

FDA grants support US research in continuous manufacturing monitoring and control techniques for bio/pharmaceutical manufacturing at Rutgers, MIT, and Georgia Tech.

A process control system based on PAT can compensate for variations in particle size, resulting in more consistent coating thickness in a Wurster coating process.

Modern technologies, including Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things, offer opportunities to increase biopharmaceutical manufacturing efficiency.

Traditional barriers between upstream and downstream bioprocessing are slowly starting to break down, as biopharma embraces more advanced analytics and process control.