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Turbidity And Suspended Solids: Determining The Relationship Between Turbidity And Total Suspended Solids
By Hach Company
The relationship between total suspended solids (TSS) and turbidity is typically used to monitor sample quality in process environments. Turbidity indicates sample stream contamination that occurs when filters become over saturated or a system becomes unbalanced.This procedure is suited for use on the 2100N,2100AN, 2100P and SS6 Turbidimeter.

From The Loading Dock To Quality Stock
By Ahura Scientific
Pharmaceutical, contract pharmaceutical manufacturing, and consumer packaged goods (CPG) production facilities face mounting pressure to increase productivity, maintain or increase quality control, and hold down costs. TruScan™, a handheld analyzer for noncontact identification of materials at the loading dock or in the warehouse, has enabled manufacturing and quality control managers to meet these challenges by streamlining their identification processes.

Case Study: CSL Bioplasma — It's In Our Blood
By Siemens
Focused on maintaining a facility at the forefront of production technologies, CSL Bioplasma recently decided to upgrade its existing DCS to a new state-of-the-art system. The company conducted extensive research into the available technologies and supplier capabilities and selected Siemens as the preferred partner for this crucial project.

Slim Down With Lean Quality
By Nikki Willett, Vice President of Marketing and Regulatory Affairs, Pilgrim Software
During these turbulent economic times, everybody is talking about slimming down and becoming lean. The top 16 pharmaceutical manufacturers spent over $90 billion to manufacture drugs but half is considered wasted money and an estimated 95% of activities in any pharmaceutical plant fail to add value to the product. However, inefficiency and deviations causing one minute of downtime can cost a manufacturer over $22,000.

Women In Biopharma: Analyzing The Glass Ceiling
By Suzanne Elvidge, Life Science Leader magazine
Women make up approximately half of the world's population, but have traditionally supplied a smaller proportion of the workforce. This has been changing over the years, and by October 2009, there was a breakthrough in women's employment — according to a report by the Center for American Progress and Maria Shriver, women made up half of the U.S. workforce for the first time in history.

Spotlight On Particle Size Analysis

Brochure: Particle Characterization System — Morphologi G3
Analysis of FPM on filters has traditionally been the preserve of manual light microscopy. Now, the Morphologi G3 brings fully automated image analysis to accelerate characterization and remove any operator subjectivity. As well as generating fast, reproducible results, Morphologi G3 provides large amounts of information about each individual particle, allowing detailed investigation, troubleshooting, and process and quality control.

Product Sheet: Particle Insight — Dynamic Image Analyzer
The Particle Insight is a state-of-the-art dynamic image analyzer which is ideal for applications where the shape, not just the diameter, is critical to raw materials. One unique feature of the Particle Insight is its ability to offer end users up to 28 different shape parameters. This offers the user flexibility in quantifying particles by shape parameters that may have a critical effect on the end product.

Product Overview: Process Development Services
Gram to kilo scale process development can be conducted on site by combining the capabilities of the engineering and process development laboratories. Experience in antibiotics and highly toxic compounds are augmented by state- of-the-art equipment and containment where needed.

Application Note: Choosing The Most Suitable Theory In Laser Diffraction — Mie Or Fraunhofer?
Particle size analysis is based on the inversion of a diffusion matrix, the resolution of which is based on theories stemming from the equations of Maxwell. The Fraunhofer approximation and the Mie theory enable particle size distributions between several tens of nanometers and several thousands of micrometers to be calculated. The differences between these two models are explained in various ISO standards that serve as bases during particle size analyses.

Product Brochure: CAMSIZER Digital Imaging Particle Size/Shape Analyzer
With hundreds of systems implemented worldwide, the CAMSIZER is the most successful instrument for particle size and particle shape measurement of dry, flowable bulk materials using dynamic digital image analysis. Due to the wide measuring range — from 30 µm to 30 mm — and the sophisticated sieve correlation, the CAMSIZER is a high-performance alternative to traditional sieve analysis.

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