Equipment and Processing Report-11-12-2008

PAT may reduce costs by helping companies control process variability, improve yields, reduce waste, and produce high-quality therapies consistently. Companies that have not yet embraced PAT may find its potential to reduce expenses a compelling argument in its favor during this time of financial difficulty.

PharmTech's monthly newsletter, Equipment & Processing Report, reviews the Editor's Picks for the November 2008 edition from ResistoPure and Millipore.

Until recently, automated inspection of solid-dose pharmaceuticals was crude, expensive, slow, and difficult to change over. But technological advances have ushered in a new class of vision-inspection systems that is more effective and more commercially viable than older systems.