We have witnessed an incredible change the last few years in how life sciences manufacturers deliver treatments. Today’s focus is on fast results, and that means products patients rely on cannot sit on shelves for weeks or months waiting on quality validation. In a...
Process Analytical Technology
Successfully Implementing Process Analytical Technology
It's been well more than a decade since the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) announced a Process Analytical Technology (PAT) approach for pharmaceutical manufacturers in their Guidance for Industry PAT — A Framework for Innovative Pharmaceutical Development,...
Trends in the Life Sciences Industry
For pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers, trends in the market place are driving changes in the way they have historically operated their production processes. I caught up with Emerson's Michalle Adkins who shared these trends with me. She identified six major...
Accurate and Repeatable Measurements in Pharmaceutical and Biotech Manufacturing
A Pharmaceutical Manufacturing magazine study revealed that pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers were challenged to achieve batch after batch repeatability. I came across a recently published whitepaper, Consistency and Repeatability Through Accurate Measurements....
Is Process Analytical Technology Rocket Science?
More than a decade ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration published, Guidance for Industry PAT — A Framework for Innovative Pharmaceutical Development, Manufacturing, and Quality Assurance. In this document, the FDA explained: The scientific, risk-based framework...
Online Multivariate Data Analysis for Continued Process Verification
Measuring quality in real-time improves the overall performance of a manufacturing process. The International Foundation Process Analytical Chemistry (IFPAC) is: …a world-wide, not-for-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of Process Analytical Technology...
Clarifying Design Space, Process Analytical Technology and Quality by Design
For pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturers, there are a lot confusion around the concepts of design space (DS), Process Analytical Technology (PAT), and Quality by Design (QbD). Emerson's Zuwei Jin believes that this confusion has largely limited the...
Enabling Release by Exception Manufacturing
The Emerson Exchange conference October 6-10 in Orlando, Florida USA is rapidly approaching. I caught up with Emerson's Michalle Adkins who mentioned that her team of Life Sciences consultants would be highlighting the enablement of release by exception. Although...
Implementing Process Analytical Technology and Continuous Process Verification
In the 4:42 video, Life Science Drug Process Development and Manufacturing, Emerson's Gary Mitchell highlights the changes occurring for pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers. Gary opens noting how these manufacturers are challenged to respond to new methods for...
What Do You Do for a Living?
Author: Michalle Adkins I often get asked, "So, what do you do for a living?" Boy is that a loaded question. When I say that I manage a group of Life Sciences Industry Consultants for Emerson—that really does not help to answer the question. Hmmm, how do I describe...
Implementing Quality by Design
Many manufacturers in the Life Sciences industry are challenged to respond to a new paradigm for process development and manufacturing. The FDA's cGMP for the 21st Century initiative is driving the industry to change its development and manufacturing to be based on...
Continuous Manufacturing for Solid Dose Form Pharmaceuticals
Emerson's Jonathan Lustri explores the trend towards continuous manufacturing for solid dose pharmaceuticals and the technologies and practices that make this possible. This past year I have become aware of a very big change that is coming to the pharmaceutical...
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