This paper discusses how gamma irradiation plants are putting the latest advances in computer and information technology to use for better process control, cost savings, and strategic advantages.
Some irradiator operations are gaining significant benefits by integrating computer technology and robotics with real-time information processing, multi-user databases, and communication networks. The paper reports on several irradiation facilities that are making good use of client/server LANs, user-friendly graphics interfaces, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, distributed I/O with real-time sensor devices, trending analysis, real-time product tracking, dynamic product scheduling, and automated dosimetry reading. These plants are lowering costs by fast and reliable reconciliation of dosimetry data, easier validation to GMP requirements, optimizing production flow, and faster release of sterilized products to market.
There is a trend in the manufacturing sector towards total automation using “predictive process control”. Real-time verification of process parameters “on-the-run” allows control parameters to be adjusted appropriately, before the process strays out of limits. Applying this technology to the gamma radiation process, control will be based on monitoring the key parameters such as time, and making adjustments during the process to optimize quality and throughput. Dosimetry results will be used as a quality control measurement rather than as a final monitor for the release of the product. Results are correlated with the irradiation process data to quickly and confidently reconcile variations. Ultimately, a parametric process control system utilizing responsive control, feedback and verification will not only increase productivity and process efficiency, but can also result in operating within tighter dose control set points. 相似文献
Modeling the behavior of air plasma spray (APS) process, one of the challenges nowadays is to identify the parameter interdependencies,
correlations and individual effects on coating properties, characteristics and influences on the in-service properties. APS
modeling requires a global approach which considers the relationships between coating characteristics/ in-service properties
and process parameters. Such an approach permits to reduce the development costs. This is why a robust methodology is needed
to study these interrelated effects. Artificial intelligence based on fuzzy logic and artificial neural network concepts offers
the possibility to develop a global approach to predict the coating characteristics so as to reach the required operating
parameters. The model considered coating properties (porosity) and established the relationships with power process parameters
(arc current intensity, total plasma gas flow rate, hydrogen content) on the basis of artificial intelligence rules. Consequently,
the role and the effects of each power process parameter were discriminated. The specific case of the deposition of alumina–titania
(Al2O3–TiO2, 13% by weight) by APS was considered. 相似文献
In quantitative on-line/in-line monitoring of chemical and bio-chemical processes using spectroscopic instruments, multivariate calibration models are indispensable for the extraction of chemical information from complex spectroscopic measurements. The development of reliable multivariate calibration models is generally time-consuming and costly. Therefore, once a reliable multivariate calibration model is established, it is expected to be used for an extended period. However, any change in the instrumental response or variations in the measurement conditions can render a multivariate calibration model invalid. In this contribution, a new method, spectral space transformation (SST), has been developed to maintain the predictive abilities of multivariate calibration models when the spectrometer or measurement conditions are altered. SST tries to eliminate the spectral differences induced by the changes in instruments or measurement conditions through the transformation between two spectral spaces spanned by the corresponding spectra of a subset of standardization samples measured on two instruments or under two sets of experimental conditions. The performance of the method has been tested on two data sets comprising NIR and MIR spectra. The experimental results show that SST can achieve satisfactory analyte predictions from spectroscopic measurements subject to spectrometer/probe alteration, when only a few standardization samples are used. Compared with the existing popular methods designed for the same purpose, i.e. global PLS, univariate slope and bias correction (SBC) and piecewise direct standardization (PDS), SST has the advantages of implementation simplicity, wider applicability and better performance in terms of predictive accuracy. 相似文献
Summary The flexibility of process scale high performance liquid chromatography is demonstrated by three examples of reversed-phase
separations (a) a standard purification (b) isolation of trace compounds, and (c) recovery from crystallisation mother liquors.
It was shown that a material, thought to be acceptably pure, contained a toxic impurity, and a remaining impurity, a previously
unseen component of potential therapeutic interest. Favourable cost data were indicated for example (3).
This work was conducted in the Chemical Technology Unit, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, PO
Box 88, Manchester M6O 1OD, UK. 相似文献
Reaction optimisation and understanding is fundamental for process development and is achieved using a variety of techniques. This paper explores the use of self-optimisation and experimental design as a tandem approach to reaction optimisation. A Claisen-Schmidt condensation was optimised using a branch and fit minimising algorithm, with the resulting data being used to fit a response surface model. The model was then applied to find new responses for different metrics, highlighting the most important for process development purposes. 相似文献