Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: Design, Modeling, PAT, Monitoring, and Control

Dear Colleagues,

Currently, pharmaceutical industries are going under paradigm shift from traditional batch to novel continuous manufacturing. Few pharmaceutical products have been recently approved by US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to manufacture in continuous line and several others are on the way. Pharmaceutical industries as well as regulators (e.g., FDA) are strongly promoting smarter continuous manufacturing (CM). There are several advantages but also different scientific challenges regarding this paradigm shift. Efficient and optimum process design, process automation, real time monitoring and control, material traceability, diversion of non-confirming products, and real-time release are few of the CM advantages which are scientifically challenging to address. Systematic process system engineering (PSE) methods and tools are therefore needed to efficiently overcome the obstacles on the path of CM shift and thereby to develop smarter continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing process.

This Special Issue on “Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: Design, Modeling, PAT, Monitoring, and Control” aims to collect high-quality research studies addressing challenges on adapting the continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing process. The manuscript demonstrating the importance of system engineering to further modernize the continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing process are highly encouraged to submit. Topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Design and operation of continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing process;
• Dynamic modeling and simulation of continuous and/or batch pharmaceutical manufacturing process;
• Optimization of continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing process;
• Control of continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing process;
• Process analytical technology (PAT);
• Quality by Design (QbD);
• Data science of continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing process;
• Material characterization and pharmaceutical database.

Dr. Ravendra Singh
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Processes is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing
• dynamic modeling and simulation 
• process control 
• process analytical technology (PAT) 
• Quality by Design (QbD) 
• material attributes 
• process and plant design 
• data science