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News Release from: ARC Advisory Group
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 01 July 2005
Novel instruments to drive IR systems
growth
New innovative spectroscopic instruments such as miniaturised spectrometers and encoded photometric infra-red analysers will breathe new life into the process infra-red systems market.
New innovative spectroscopic instruments such as miniaturised spectrometers and encoded photometric infra-red analysers will breathe new life into the process infra-red systems market The worldwide market for process infra-red systems (PIRS) is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.1% over the next five years
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 10 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"In moving from the laboratory to the plant floor, it is critical that accuracy, repeatability, and reliability of infra-red systems be transferable to the manufacturing environment".
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"Process infra-red systems must be user friendly in terms of installation, operation, validation, and maintenance", according to Field Systems Analyst Paula Hollywood, principal author of the study.
Unlike other industries where process automation measurement tools are constantly monitoring the production process to reduce and ultimately eliminate process variation, the pharmaceutical industry has been more focused on regulatory compliance.
PAT online testing for quality will replace the protracted and expensive practice of manually drawing a sample to be tested in a specialised offline laboratory.
At-line, inline and online PIRS will be an integral component of the PAT platform for continuous quality control, assurance, verification, and validation.
NIR is expected to be the greatest beneficiary of PAT due in large part to its applicability to solids measurements.
Although process control systems, sensors, and analysers have all evolved to become sophisticated pieces of equipment with a fair degree of intelligence, the sampling system has not changed in any meaningful way in 30 years.
The reality is that the number of dedicated spectroscopists in manufacturing is shrinking and the number of analysers is growing, indicating that more efficient analyser and sampling systems are essential.
Estimates are that the NeSSI platform will reduce the cost to build an analyser system by as much as 40%, realised largely as the result of a reduction in analyser system infrastructure.
With the sampling system closely coupled to the process, long sample transport and return lines and the problems associated with them will be eliminated, including analyser shelters.
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