USP Global Public Policy Position: Recognizing Challenges and Opportunities to Support Adoption of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies for Medical Products (2024)

Advanced manufacturing technologies (AMTs) for medical products, such as pharmaceutical continuous manufacturing (PCM), additive (3D printing) manufacturing, direct perfusion, and decentralized manufacturing (for example, distributed manufacturing and point of care manufacturing), have the potential to improve manufacturing efficiency, reduce production costs, reduce environmental footprints, and support supply chain resilience.