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Intelligent Powder Processing
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Do you completely understand all aspects of your powder process, formulating, specifying and manufacturing product in an optimal manner on the basis of underlying knowledge? Or do you, like many other pharmaceutical producers, rely heavily on the experience of formulators, supervisors and operators running sub-optimally but well enough to get by? Here we discuss how your experience can be fully exploited by correlating process observations with measurable powder parameters. This approach brings improved understanding, which in turn leads to cost reductions and a lowering of the risks associated with change.
Fundamental understanding
Legislation and economics dictate that pharmaceutical manufacturers must have sufficient information to run their processes in a safe, profit-generating way. These factors do not, however, compel producers to understand the more fundamental aspects of their process. For example, a formulation may contain 0.9% magnesium stearate on the basis of acceptable tabletting performance, but there may be little understanding of the underlying correlations linking additive level with flow behaviour and tablet stability. Is this important?
Increasingly the answer is yes. In the past the pharmaceutical industry has enjoyed the luxury of operating relatively inefficient processes, but those days are long gone. The pressure to operate more effectively, to minimize waste, maximize equipment utilization and cut time-to-market is intense. This requires smarter process operation, which in turn demands process understanding and knowledge.
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