DRUG MANUFACTURING

PAT Solutions

Improving final product quality, reducing risk in drug manufacturing

Optimize your manufacturing by implementing modern Process Analytical Technology

Process analytical technology (PAT) is defined by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a system for designing, analyzing, and controlling pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturing processes through the measurement of Critical Process Parameters (CPP), which affect Critical Quality Attributes (CQA).

PAT initiative is an effort to facilitate the introduction of new technologies into manufacturing in the pharmaceutical industry. Today's competitive industrial environment requires drug manufacturing that continuously strives to improve product quality while reducing production costs. The goal of PAT is to enhance understanding and control this manufacturing process, which is consistent with the FDA's current drug quality system: quality cannot be tested into products; it should be built-in or should be by design (QBD).

In routine manufacturing, PAT enables continuous and real-time quality assurance (QA) to ensure consistently high product quality and performance, batch after batch. Structured product and process development, using experimental design and on or in-line process analyzers to collect data in real-time, can provide increased insight and understanding for process development, optimization, scale-up, technology transfer, and control. Process understanding then continues in the production phase when other variables (e.g., environmental and supplier changes) may possibly be encountered. Therefore, continuous learning over the life cycle of a product and applying those learnings is important.

PAT offers the pharmaceutical industry a framework for revolutionizing its R&D and manufacturing businesses, to produce value for both themselves and patients. The main benefits associated with PAT for companies include:

  • Reduced waste, right-first-time manufacturing, higher production asset utilization
  • Real-time quality assurance and validation
  • Increased movement toward a real-time product release
  • Reduced raw material, work-in-progress, and finished goods inventories by lean manufacturing processes
  • Increased robust product supply to the public

Bruker offers a range of tools for PAT: namely PAT management software synTQNMRFT-NIRRaman spectroscopy, XRD, and XRF spectrometry. NMR for PAT is independent of the sample matrix, needs no calibration, and can deliver data quickly and frequently. NIR, FT-NIR, and Raman provide a comprehensive range of PAT solutions based on vibrational spectroscopy. XRD is particularly suited to detect and anticipate form changes that may occur and adversely affect drug substance quality. XRF allows for rapid and accurate quantification of elemental impurities, providing immediate feedback.

Free eBook:

‘QbD & PAT for Dummies’ offers a simple and easy to follow guide on what Quality by Design (QbD) and PAT are, the regulatory framework supporting these approaches, as well as how leveraging these concepts can positively transform production processes and quality testing.

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ON DEMAND SESSION – January 31, 2023

Process Analytical Technologies – Advances in Bioprocess from Integration to Transition to Digital Manufacturing

Process Analytical Technology (PAT) instruments include analyzers capable of measuring physical and chemical process parameters and key attributes with the goal of optimizing process controls.
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ON DEMAND SESSION – September 21, 2022

Digitalization, Sustainability, and Process Analytical Technology - Trends in Pharmaceutical and Bio-Pharmaceutical Industry 

Do you have sustainability goals? Where would you place your organization in the digitalization journey? Is process analytical technology being implemented or still something in the vision stage?
Discovery of small molecules that target RNA. NMR is the method of choice.
September 20, 2022

Path to Smart Manufacturing and Intelligent Development within Industry 4.0 – Building an Integrated Sensing Strategy

Over the years there have been many frames of reference on the use of process analytical technology (PAT) in the commercial manufacturing space including monitoring, closed-loop control, quality control/real-time release, advanced process control, quality by design, Industry 4.0, etc.
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ON DEMAND SESSION – May 24, 2022

Explore On-line Benchtop NMR Monitoring Under Real Process Conditions

Need to improve process control? Tired of repetitive and time-consuming calibrations? Flow NMR is now at your fingertips with our new benchtop solution for online monitoring of chemical and bio processes by NMR, in real-time, under real process conditions.
Discovery of small molecules that target RNA. NMR is the method of choice.
November 6, 2020

Next Generation Manufacturing at Biogen – PAT as an Enabler for Enhanced Process

Biogen is among the first biopharmaceutical companies to employ PAT in an active role in the manufacturing of biologicals.
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Improving mechanistic understanding of fast reactions using rapid, reproducible in situ analysis by stop-flow NMR and IR

Mechanistic understanding is essential to control and optimize reactions so that by-products are reduced, yields are increased and reaction selectivities are improved.

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