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Industries Look to Innovations in Process Equipment to Save Costs, Improve Quality and Stay Competitive |
August 10, 2009 |
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Posted by Don Dunnington at August 10, 2009 04:44 PM |
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Helping industry produce better product, faster, and at lower cost has been a driving force for many of the most innovative process equipment companies. Today process automation remains the chief tool available to process industries seeking to reduce costs and improve product quality.
To help processors capture greater material cost savings while assuring product quality, the K-Tron Process Group recently unveiled its improved Feed Smart Deluxe Recipe Optimizer, a Microsoft Excel workbook (available as a free download) that helps processors calculate the potential savings hidden in their current process recipes.
The expanded and enhanced FeedSmart Deluxe adds a new level of functionality for processors wishing to minimize ingredient costs, evaluate options, and make the best possible decision when it comes time to purchase a new feeding system. The program lets you quickly compute the lowest possible recipe cost for every blend, formulation or compound, plus you can calculate additional savings that result from improved feeder accuracy.
A Seminar Just for Pharmaceutical Process Engineers
Like all manufacturers, the search for greater productivity in the pharmaceutical sector has been driven largely by global competition and economic conditions. But their drive for process innovation may be further intensified by political pressure in many countries to do something to reduce mounting health care costs across the board.
In response to the industry’s growing interest in process improvement, a group of process equipment manufacturers have been sponsoring free seminars in for process engineers in the pharmaceutical industry. “Innovations in Pharmaceutical Processing” is produced by the K-Tron Process Group in collaboration with Leistritz, Howorth Air Technology, Inc, Hosokawa Micron Powder Systems, and Quadro Engineering Corp.
Seminars have been held in major pharmaceutical processing regions around the world. I recently attended one in King of Prussia, near Philadelphia, PA. Presentations covered key topics of design in pharmaceutical processing, such as containment, continuous processing using twin screw extrusion, pneumatic conveying, milling, sieving, screening and size reduction, continuous blending, active freeze drying of products and ingredients, and feeding options for a variety of applications.
Processing Seminar Travels to California
The next stop for the pharmaceutical seminars is California--September 22, 2009, in Santa Ana, CA and September 24, 2009, in San Francisco. The seminar offers pharmaceutical processors detailed process and analytical information about important topics and trends in the industry.
The seminar organizers have put together an objective technical overview on how to improve current operations and take advantage of new technologies, such as lubricant feeding of the modern tablet press illustrated above. You can register online for the seminar, which has been developed to meet the information needs of scientists, engineers, production and manufacturing personnel, researchers, formulation scientists, product development and process transfer personnel.
Don Dunnington
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