Manufacturing

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The role of automation suppliers is transforming to meet the pharma industry's demand for change.

Automation Vendor or Partner?

Operational excellence awaits, but only if you can implement PAT successfully.

Managing the risks of PAT

PAT guidance has been available from FDA for more than 4 years, but there have been no apparent breakthroughs in large-scale upstream production. Will companies consider using on?line chromatography to change this?

PAT: HPLC on the horizon?

FDA advocates building quality into a product through PAT.

Rapid and convenient microsphere sizing

The biggest benefit of PAT and the current FDA initiatives may be in allowing pharmaceutical scientists to use their technical capabilities to improve pharmaceutical processes.

PAT — a team effort

Getting IT, engineering, and manufacturing on the same page requires a delicate balance.

Converging InformationTechnology & Automation Teams

Enterprise process control and management (EPCAM) is a new strategy for healthcare manufacturers based on recent process-control breakthroughs in the electronics industry.

EPCAM: A Strategy to Enable Manufacturing-Process Control Transformation

ISA 100.11a and WirelessHART both seek to become the global standard for industrial wireless automation.

Unplugged: Developing Standards for Wireless Automation

A manufacturing line can be improved if technology transfer is implemented thoughtfully. Effective technology transfer helps to provide process efficiency and control and maintain product quality.

Technology Transfer Provides Manufacturing-Process Control

Six sigma, process analytical technology (PAT) and related initiatives are driving greater use of statistical analysis methods to increase process understanding and improve manufacturing capabilities.

Process and Automation