There is a growing interest in manufacturing the pharmaceutical product continuously . Along with other advantages , it provides an appropriate platform to implement suitable monitoring and control architecture, to improve the product quality and minimise product rejection and operating expenses. Continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing can be also considered as a ‘data rich’ operation since data is continuously generated from the substantial experiments employed in the process development activities or process operation. Therefore, a systematic framework is needed through which suitable sensing and control architectures can be designed, developed, evaluated and implemented into a continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing plant. In addition, an efficient data management system is required for data storage, organisation and subsequent applications. The objective of this article is to introduce a continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing process and pilot plant, and highlight the process analytical technology (PAT), control and data management system integrated with it.

• Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

• Oral doses
• Modeling

1. control and data management
2. gPROMs
3. modeling
4. Opinion
5. Oral doses
6. pat
7. simulations