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The countdown has begun for one of the biggest trade shows for the process industry.

ACHEMA Returns to Frankfurt

Jennifer Markarian is manufacturing reporter for Pharmaceutical Technology.

Economic benefits, equipment availability, research results, and FDA support are driving progress in continuous processing.

Advancing Continuous Solid-Dosage Manufacturing

Systec & Solutions' HMI hardware and Werum's PAS-X manufacturing execution system are designed to work together.

Werum and Systec & Solutions Offer an Integrated Information Technology Solution

Transitioning from paper records to electronic batch records decreases costs and increases efficiency.

Electronic Batch Records Offer Advantages beyond Automation

Senior solutions architect for New England Controls.

Virtualization has been mainstream in information technology (IT) for decades.

Virtualized Infrastructure Takes Hold in Pharma Process Automation

Fernando J. Muzzio, PhD, is a professor and the director of the pharmaceutical engineering program at the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University, 98 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8058, tel. 732.445.3357.

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.

M. Sebastian Escotet-Espinoza is a graduate research assistant at the Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey,

Sharmista Chatterjee is acting branch I chief/division 1 of process assessment/Office of Process and Facilities, at the Office of Pharmaceutical Quality, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, FDA.

Thomas O’Connor is chemical engineer, science staff at the Office of Pharmaceutical Quality, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, FDA.

Sau Lee is acting associate director for science at the Office of Pharmaceutical Quality, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, FDA.

Maitraye Sen is a graduate research assistant at the Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

In-silico design facilitates process optimization and evaluation of process control strategies.

Flowsheet Models Modernize Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Design and Risk Assessment

Multivariate data analysis (MVDA) is being used to effectively handle complex datasets generated by process analytical technology (PAT) in biopharmaceutical process development and manufacturing.

Multivariate Data Analysis Finds Use In Biopharmaceutical Process Development And Scale-Up

Use of modeling software can help improve process understanding, and can be used in open- or closed-loop control.

How Modeling Software Can Help Process Development

Real-time, noncontact imaging and spectroscopy techniques provide insight into pharmaceutical processes.

Advances in Process Analytical Technology Improve Understanding

The new flow sensors, BioPAT Flow, enable precise, reproducible data to be collected on flow rates and mass balances without coming in contact with the medium during measurement.

Process and Automation