Process Control, Automation, and PAT

ABB’s modeling software, Shop Floor Integration V2.0, allows engineers to validate the connection of existing pharmaceutical manufacturing equipment with Werum’s PAS-X manufacturing execution system in a simulation prior to running it live.

The company will provide the first FlexFactory manufacturing platform for cell therapy manufacturing.

Aseptic fill/finish is crucial in biopharma manufacturing and is optimized through automated technology.

InstantGMP INV is a validated software for real-time material tracking and inventory control in biopharmaceutical manufacturing.

The need to improve and understand processes is moving PAT and more advanced control strategies beyond the lab into manufacturing and downstream applications.

More published data and initial regulatory approvals are needed to drive adoption of continuous bio-manufacturing.

Modeling at various stages of the data analytics continuum aids scale comparison of a bioreactor.

Lonza Pharma & Biotech's's Modular Automated Sampling Technology (MAST) platform, which allows for the collection of up to 10 sterile sample sources for automated analysis in multiple analytical devices, won the CPhI Pharma Award 2017 for Excellence in Pharma: Bioprocessing.

GE Healthcare will equip Cellular Biomedicine Group's cell therapy manufacturing facility in Shanghai, China, with its FlexFactory single-use platform, designed to speed up cell therapy manufacturing timelines.

The IFPAC annual meeting on advancing the understanding and control of manufacturing processes using process analytical technology will be held Feb. 11-14, 2018.

New technological advancements seek to improve pharmaceutical process monitoring and control.

BioTek Instruments has released a second edition of its BioSpa software that now offers users a simplified but effective interface for kinetic imaging or detection workflows.

A survey by LNS Research and sponsored by Honeywell showed that industrial companies are not moving quickly to adopt cyber security; calls on CEOs to take action.

A quality-by-design approach that implements PAT offers advantages in upstream cell-culture processing.

Small-molecule therapeutics can also benefit from the implementation of PAT in the manufacturing process.

The company’s new modules offer scalable single-pass diafiltration and were exclusively showcased during its Leadership Forum series in Westborough, MA.

CPhI Pharma Awards honor companies and individuals driving the pharma industry forward.

The partnership and the formation of the institute intend to bring together industry, academia, and regulators to tackle challenges and provide solutions for continuous manufacturing.

Process analytical testing for biopharmaceuticals requires enhanced methods due to complex bioprocesses.

Consider automation early in the rollout of clinical translation and scale up of clinical-trial protocols.

The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering announced the release of ISPE GAMP Good Practice Guide: IT Infrastructure Control and Compliance (Second Edition).

The International Society of Automation (ISA) and Siemens entered a global partnership to increase awareness of industrial cybersecurity needs and standards.

IDBS described benefits and best practices for laboratory electronic data systems.

The annual meeting of the Honeywell Users Group for the Americas will discuss industrial automation.

An influx of millennial workers may have an impact on whether pharma manufacturers choose to implement IIoT technology.

The process control and automation requirements of single-use systems differ from those of stainless-steel equipment.

Process controls get some upgrades to better reflect real-time conditions.

Miniature bioreactors add value by reducing validation efforts.

This case study reviews how quality-by-design principles can be implemented in an intermediate chromatography purification step that uses cation-exchange chromatography.Abstract