Material Handling Featured Articles

  1. Leveraging Tools To Create Optimized Solutions 7/17/2024

    Review the key trends and challenges shaping the CDMO industry as well as the tools helping a leading CDMO meet the growing demand for pediatric formulations and taste-masking solutions.

  2. Less Mess, Less Stress, Best Expressed: An Alternative To Spray Drying 7/16/2024

    Although well-established processes, spray drying and hot-melt extrusion can be outperformed in bioavailability, cost-savings, manufacturing speed, environmental impact, and more.

  3. Bacterial Endotoxin Testing, Part 1: Overview 7/16/2024

    All injectable drug products and implantable medical devices that come into contact with the bloodstream or spinal fluid are tested for endotoxins. This article provides an overview of bacterial endotoxin testing and the LAL method.

  4. The Critical Role Of Weight Uniformity In Tablet Manufacturing 7/11/2024

    For tablet manufacturers, tablet weight uniformity plays an essential role in ensuring pharmaceutical products deliver accurate amounts of key ingredients in a formulation.

  5. Customized Release Through Dispersed Dosage Formats 6/13/2024

    Typically, dosage format is based on the target product profile: how the developer envisions the product best addressing a clinical indication by maintaining population-wide efficacy.

  6. Beware AI Hallucinations 6/7/2024

    As the use of AI increases and expands to new functional areas within biopharmaceutical companies, leaders must understand the risks and mitigate the impact of hallucinations in AI model outputs.

  7. Balanced Sourcing Of Custom Media/Buffer Formulations, Part 2: The Case For Insourcing 6/6/2024

    In part 1 of this 2-part series, the authors discussed the case for outsourcing of custom media/buffer formulations. In this article, they discuss key considerations in the case for vertical integration, or insourcing.

  8. Is Excessive Pressure in The Feed Frame Causing You Problems? 6/5/2024

    Are you having content uniformity issues in oral solid dosage manufacturing? Your slide gates and valves might not be in the best position with relationship to the powder feeder.

  9. AI Integration In Drug Manufacturing: GMP Insights For Operational Excellence, Regulatory Compliance 6/4/2024

    This article provides insights into a variety of use cases on the application of AI/ML in GMP settings and 5 key considerations for drug manufacturers using AI.

  10. Defining And Overcoming Batch Release Deviations 5/31/2024

    Agencies lack a specific definition for deviations, so it’s up to each company to clearly define what they are, and then build systems to prevent and react to them.