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News Release from: DEM Solutions
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Team on 11 January 2008
DEM joins research programme
As a new member of the C-SOPS, DEM Solutions will contribute its DEM software technology and experience in the industrial application of DEM.
DEM Solutions is collaborating with Rutgers University and its partner institutions, Purdue University, the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, in their research and technology programme aimed at improving manufacturing processes in pharmaceutical, food and agrochemical industries The Center for Structured Organic Particulate Systems (C-SOPS) is a National Science Foundation-sponsored Engineering Research centre (ERC) that brings together a cross-disciplinary team of academic and industry engineers, scientists and technology firms
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 19 May 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Dr Fernando Muzzio, Director of the C-SOPS and Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Rutgers stated: "We are pleased to welcome DEM Solutions as a new member of the C-SOPS".
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"EDEM will provide us with enhanced capabilities to simulate complex particulate systems giving us valuable information for use in the research and development of key particulate manufacturing processes".
A large portion of ongoing research at C-SOPS focuses on design and process improvement for the pharmaceutical industry.
Industrial members of the C-SOPS include Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Johnson and Johnson, PepsiCo, Pfiser and Schering-Plough.
A number of these companies are already using DEM Solutions EDEM technology in the design and optimisation of their particle handling and processing operations.
A recent US FDA initiative, the Quality by Design initiative (QbD), encourages the pharmaceutical industry to adopt innovative technologies including computer simulation to enhance fundamental understanding and control of pharmaceutical manufacturing processes.
The use of particle mechanics simulation software, such as EDEM, can also lower experimental and prototyping costs because experimental design and process changes can be "virtually" modeled, tested and evaluated.
Dr Gintara Reklaitis, Deputy Director of the C-SOPS and Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue, said that: "Advanced modeling tools such as those provided by DEM Solutions are of critical importance to the realisation of the C-SOPS vision that the rational design of multicomponent particulate products and their associated manufacturing processes will occur via predictive models supported by a minimum of key experiments".
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