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Process Analytical Technology: An industry perspective

Issue 4 2010 / 19 August 2010 / Uwe Kirschner, General Manager, Sentronic GmbH, Rick E. Cooley, Market Development Manager - Process Analytics, Dionex Corporation, Rebecca Vangenechten, Business Development, Siemens Headquarters Pharma and Kjell François, Project Leader in PAT

Process Analytical Technology (PAT) is a system for designing, analysing and controlling pharmaceutical manufacturing processes through measurements of critical quality and performance attributes of raw and processed materials to ensure final product quality, the idea of which is to become more efficient while reducing over-processing, enhancing efficiency and minimising waste. In this roundtable, three leading pharmaceutical PAT companies offer their opinions on why PAT is becoming more and more essential to the pharmaceutical industry. (more…)