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Feeding of particle-based materials in continuous solid dosage manufacturing: a material science perspective
09 Jun 2023 | Contributor(s):: Hsiao, WK, Hormann, TR, Toson, P, Paudel, A, Ghiotti, P, Stauffer, F, Bauer, F, Lakio, S, Behrend, O, Maurer, R, Holman, J, Khinast, J
The pharmaceutical industry today is experiencing a paradigm shift from batch to continuous manufacturing, which promises greater flexibility to target diverse populations, as well as more-consistent product quality to ensure best efficacy. However, shifting to continuous processing means that...
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Evaluation of Hot-Melt Extrusion and Injection Molding for Continuous Manufacturing of Immediate-Release Tablets
09 Jun 2023 | Contributor(s):: Melocchi, Alice, Loreti, Giulia, Del Curto, Maria Dorly, Maroni, Alessandra, Gazzaniga, Andrea, Zema, Lucia
The exploitation of hot-melt extrusion and injection molding for the manufacturing of immediate-release (IR) tablets was preliminarily investigated in view of their special suitability for continuous manufacturing, which represents a current goal of pharmaceutical production because of its...
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Deep learning for continuous manufacturing of pharmaceutical solid dosage form
09 Jun 2023 | Contributor(s):: Roggo, Yves, Jelsch, Morgane, Heger, Philipp, Ensslin, Simon, Krumme, Markus
Continuous Manufacturing (CM) of pharmaceutical drug products is a new approach within the pharmaceutical industry. In the presented paper, a GMP continuous wet granulation line for production of solid dosage forms was investigated. The line was composed of the subsequent continuous unit:...
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Continuous manufacturing process monitoring of pharmaceutical solid dosage form: A case study
09 Jun 2023 | Contributor(s):: Roggo, Yves, Pauli, Victoria, Jelsch, Morgane, Pellegatti, Laurent, Elbaz, Frantz, Ensslin, Simon, Kleinebudde, Peter, Krumme, Markus
The most prevalent pharmaceutical dosage forms at present are granular solids in the form of oral tablets and capsules. While effective in releasing drug rapidly upon contact with gastrointestinal fluid, their manufacture, which relies on particulate processing, is fraught with difficulties...
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Application of X-Ray Sensors for In-line and Noninvasive Monitoring of Mass Flow Rate in Continuous Tablet Manufacturing
09 Jun 2023 | Contributor(s):: Ganesh, Sudarshan, Troscinski, Rachel, Schmall, Nicholas, Nagy, Zoltan, Reklaitis, Gintaras
The progress in continuous downstream manufacturing of oral solid doses demands effective real-time process management, with monitoring at its core. This study evaluates the feasibility of using a commercial sensor to measure the mass flow rate of the particulates, a critical process variable in...
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Artificial Intelligence Tools for Scaling Up of High Shear Wet Granulation Process
09 Jun 2023 | Contributor(s):: Landin, Mariana
The results presented in this article demonstrate the potential of artificial intelligence tools for predicting the endpoint of the granulation process in high-speed mixer granulators of different scales from 25L to 600L. The combination of neurofuzzy logic and gene expression programing...
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A review of PAT strategies in secondary solid oral dosage manufacturing of small molecules
09 Jun 2023 | Contributor(s):: Laske, Stephan, Paudel, Amrit, Scheibelhofer, Otto, Sacher, Stephan, Hoermann, Theresa, Khinast, Johannes, Kelly, Adrian, Rantannen, Jukka, Korhonen, Ossi, Stauffer, Fanny, De Leersnyder, Fien, De Beer, Thomas, Mantanus, Jerome, Chavez, Pierre-Francois, Thoorens, Benjamin, Ghiotti, Patrizia, Schubert, Martin, Tajarobi, Pirjo, Haeffler, Gunnar, Lakio, Satu, Fransson, Magnus, Sparen, Anders, Abrahmsen-Alami, Susanna, Folestad, Staffan, Funke, Adrian, Backx, Ivo, Kavsek, Barbara, Kjell, Francois, Michaelis, Marc, Page, Trevor, Palmer, John, Schaepman, Alexander, Sekulic, Sonja, Hammond, Steve, Braun, Birgit, Colegrove, Brenda
Pharmaceutical solid oral dosage product manufacturing is a well-established, yet revolutionizing area. To this end, process analytical technology (PAT) involves interdisciplinary and multivariate (chemical, physical, microbiological and mathematical) methods for material (e.g. materials,...