Batch

In batch manufacturing, products are created step by step, requiring interventions to keep the process moving. Although batch manufacturing has been used for decades, innovations are continuously being added to the process to improve batch management, record keeping and more.

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Unlocking the full potential of pharma batch reports

How integrated batch reporting can help manufacturers identify non-conformance parameters and aid process improvement
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Continuous versus batch: Weighing the choices

New research compares the financial risks and rewards of investing in each manufacturing path
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Taking quality assurance to new heights

More companies are implementing MES to improve quality at every step – and get products to patients faster
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The crux of an effective pharma recall

Pharma can take steps now to prepare for the interconnected, digital supply chain
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OEE betters the batch

New technology allows equipment data to be aggregated and analyzed, facilitating best practices across all batches.
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Product Focus: Reducing risk during the mix

Vendors bring new features to mixing technology
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Curing Batch Record Pain Points

How innovative EBR solutions are making it easier to scrap paper-based processes

Personalization Status: It’s Complicated

New trends streamline efficiency, but also add complexity

Why Cookies Crumble

An understanding of how ingredients affect the entire process helps improve quality
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A Better Batch

Today’s solid dose manufacturing reality still relies on skillful execution by operators
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Contorting Convention

Modern aseptic performance demands new flexibility in both mindset and technology

Ensuring Batch-to-Batch Repeatability in Sanitary Processes

Make sure the pressure transmitters used in your CIP/SIP application are designed for that service.
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Automating Distributed Control System Patching

How Eli Lilly’s Indianapolis facility reduced the time needed to gather information, and deliver and install plant-wide system updates
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Exploring the Benefits of Real-time Particle Sizing

The optimization and scale-up of wet granulation processes is often an essential step in the commercialization of oral solid dosage (OSD) products. Granulation enables the preparation...
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Solid Dose Realities: Reaching for More

Real-time characterization of Oral Solid Dose formulation in process and nearly prescient control are doing great things for both batch and continuous drug manufacturing