Advanced Manufacturing

Making more quality medicines in more places

Advanced manufacturing technologies include innovative approaches like continuous manufacturing that can provide potential efficiencies for many medicines and their ingredients, thereby facilitating geographic diversity in sourcing and supply chain resilience. 

Quality-Focused Solutions

USP is working to assist manufacturers that may be considering adoption of advanced manufacturing technologies by addressing technical, knowledge and training barriers through quality-focused solutions.

 

R&D Analytical Solutions

Continuous Manufacturing Knowledge Center (CMKC)

PCM Technical Guides

Pharmatech Associates

USP’s analytical method development and qualification services support in-lab analytical and process development for pharmaceutical R&D. We provide flexible, tailored solutions to help develop and pre-validate analytical methods, procedures for characterizing drugs and related materials including analytical standards, and methods and processes to identify and control potential impurities.

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The CMKC is a free digital knowledge management resource for capturing, organizing, and updating rapidly expanding knowledge about continuous manufacturing, as well as an online community network where experts can collaborate to close existing knowledge gaps. Find resources and connect with experts on CM today.

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PCM Technical Guides provide the fundamentals and in-depth information to help new adopters get up to speed with the essential concepts for continuous manufacturing of pharmaceuticals. Topics such as control strategy, process modeling and in vitro dissolution modeling are covered.

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Pharmatech Associates, a USP company, is a global consultancy for the life science industry and an independent subsidiary of USP providing consulting services that directly help address drug development and business needs to evaluate and implement PCM.

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Resources

R&D solutions

Drug manufacturing innovation: Building in quality from the start with USP

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Pharmaceutical continuous manufacturing: What drug makers need to know

Ron Piervincenzi, Ph.D., USP's CEO, recently had a conversation with pharmaceutical manufacturing consulting services provider Pharmatech Associates’ CEO Bikash Chatterjee.

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Policy considerations: Harnessing pharmaceutical continuous manufacturing for a more resilient supply chain

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