Manufacturing

Agnes Shanley is senior editor of Pharmaceutical Technology.

Jennifer Markarian is manufacturing reporter for Pharmaceutical Technology.

Articles

As more continuous processes move toward commercialization, users and equipment vendors are working to speed changeovers and address other needs.

Addressing Continuous Manufacturing’s Growing Pains

L.B. Bohle’s QbCon 1 laboratory-scale, continuous twin-screw granulator and dryer offers fully continuous drying for R&D in continuous solid-dosage manufacturing.

Lab-scale Dryer Offers Fully Continuous Drying

The pharmaceutical industry is adopting Industry 4.0 and emerging technologies to improve product quality and manufacturing efficiency.

Modernizing Pharma Manufacturing

Process analytical technology and advanced process control strategies can be applied to either batch or continuous manufacturing of solid-dosage drugs.

Considering Advanced Process Control for Solid-Dosage Manufacturing

FDA approves Vertex's cystic fibrosis drug, Symdeko (tezacaftor/ivacaftor and ivacaftor), which is made using a continuous manufacturing process. 

Vertex Receives FDA Approval for Continuously Manufactured Drug Product

Engineering Research Center for Structured Organic Particulate Systems (ERC-SOPS), Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.

Matthew Billups is a graduate student at the Engineering Research Center for Structured Organic Particulate Systems (ERC-SOPS), Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway.

A systematic framework and software are needed to implement material traceability in continuous pharmaceutical tablet manufacturing.

Material Traceability in Continuous Pharmaceutical Tablet Manufacturing

Fette Compacting and Glatt have joined forces to develop integrated solutions for the continuous manufacturing of oral solid-dosage drug forms.

Fette Compacting and Glatt Partner to Develop Continuous Manufacturing Solutions

Sean Milmo is a freelance writer based in Essex, UK.

The shift toward continuous manufacturing among European pharmaceutical manufacturers has not been accompanied by a similar strong increase in the use of automation and sensor-based on-line monitoring.


Europe Leads the Way in Continuous Manufacturing

Eli Lilly was awarded the 2017 FOYA Overall Winner for its continuous direct compression manufacturing installation projects.

Eli Lilly Wins 2017 Facility of the Year Award

Rutgers University-based C-SOPS annual meeting described advances in continuous manufacturing understanding and future plans for broader education efforts.  

Manufacturing, Continuous Solid Dosage Processing