Malawer & Associates Consulting, LLC
Pharmaceutical, Chemical, & Dietary Supplement Value Creation
Process Analytical
A Process NMR Associates nuclear magnetic resonance analyzer installed on-line in a refinery to measure and control petrochemical composition.
(Process NMR Associates is a business partner of Malawer & Associates Consulting, LLC.)
(Process NMR Associates is a business partner of Malawer & Associates Consulting, LLC.)
Question: How can a pharmaceutical or chemical process achieve a simultaneous increase in product quality and cost reduction?
Answer: Through the installation of one or more on-line analyzers which have been configured to the plant's DCS or PLC unit to provide feedback or feed-forward control.
Malawer & Associates Consulting provides guidance on process analytical problem resolution and can carry out project coordination activities through the implementation stage. Our firm also provides training in the form of a 2-day introductory short course on process analytical chemistry that can be brought onto a customer's site. (See Education.)
The benefits of incorporation of one or more on-line analyzers into any given process can include most of the following:
Question: So, why use Malawer & Associates Consulting for your firm's process analytical problem resolution?
Answer: Dr. Malawer has been successfully coordinating process analytical projects since 1991 with International Specialty Products. His consulting firm carried out a Raman analyer project for a large inorganic chemicals complex in 2007-2008 and is currently working with several major process analyzer firms to develop synergistic combination technologies to create instruments with expanded capabilties. He has also developed a short course for the American Chemical Society entitled "Introduction to Process Analytical technology". Dr. Malawer has published a review article in the March 2010 issue of the Cosmetiscope relating to the use of process analyzer technology in the personal care industry. The article can be viewed by clicking here. Dr. Malawer also assisted a major analyzer firm to increase its sales penetration into the personal care market.
Answer: Through the installation of one or more on-line analyzers which have been configured to the plant's DCS or PLC unit to provide feedback or feed-forward control.
Malawer & Associates Consulting provides guidance on process analytical problem resolution and can carry out project coordination activities through the implementation stage. Our firm also provides training in the form of a 2-day introductory short course on process analytical chemistry that can be brought onto a customer's site. (See Education.)
The benefits of incorporation of one or more on-line analyzers into any given process can include most of the following:
- Reduced cycle time / increased capacity
- Increased process reproducibility / reliability
- Improved product quality
- Better understanding of chemical processes
- Increased automation of processes
- Reduction of off-line (lab) in-process testing
- Reduced scrap, rework, blending
- Reduced chemical waste
- Reduced pollution
- Reduced energy consumption
- Reduced raw materials usage
- Improved process safety
- Increased profitability for the firm
- Increased job security for its employees
- Better utilization of employees’ skills
- Satisfied shareholders
- Customers / Consumers - increased satisfaction with firm’s products
- Patients (in the case of drug products) – greater safety
- Satisfaction of regulatory agencies (e.g. FDA) through the firm's adherence to the tenets of the PAT (Process Analytical Technology) and QbD (Quality by Design) initiatives.
Question: So, why use Malawer & Associates Consulting for your firm's process analytical problem resolution?
Answer: Dr. Malawer has been successfully coordinating process analytical projects since 1991 with International Specialty Products. His consulting firm carried out a Raman analyer project for a large inorganic chemicals complex in 2007-2008 and is currently working with several major process analyzer firms to develop synergistic combination technologies to create instruments with expanded capabilties. He has also developed a short course for the American Chemical Society entitled "Introduction to Process Analytical technology". Dr. Malawer has published a review article in the March 2010 issue of the Cosmetiscope relating to the use of process analyzer technology in the personal care industry. The article can be viewed by clicking here. Dr. Malawer also assisted a major analyzer firm to increase its sales penetration into the personal care market.
