The Process Analytical Technology initiative and multivariate process analysis, monitoring and control.
Process analytical technology is an essential step forward in pharmaceutical industry. Real-time analyzers will provide timely data on quality properties. This information combined with process data (temperatures, flow rates, pressure readings) collected in real time can become a powerful tool for this industry, for process understanding, process and quality monitoring, abnormal situation detection and for improving product quality and process reliability. A very important tool for this achievement is the multivariate analysis.
Chemical Engineering Department, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L7, Canada. kourtit@mcmaster.ca
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D004345:Drug Industry / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D011786:Quality Control; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical