Successful use of process analysis and control involves many technologies - it is truly a multidisciplinary activity.
Effective implemenation of process analysis and control into your manufacturing operations will have a major impact on your profits.
The financial, safety and environmental benefits of process analysis and control (PAC) technologies have never been more important to modern manufacturing in the pharmaceuticals, chemicals, materials, petrochemicals, biotechnology, food industries, and many others.
The benefits of in-process measurements, real-time data mining and predictive modelling include:
APACT is an open forum for the presentation and discussion of recent scientific and engineering advances relevant to process analytics and control technologies.
Plenary and keynote speakers will report recent advances in the development and application of novel process analytics, predictive modelling and control technologies, and will review the benefits achieved.
Following the success of previous conferences, APACT 18 will be a 3 day meeting featuring plenary and parallel sessions on topics crucial to the achievement of manufacturing excellence.
The programme will feature invited and contributed lectures, poster presentations and a vendor exhibition, including the unique APACT Exhibitor Showcase.
The meeting is an ideal forum for networking and information gathering on PAC. Those new to process analysis or process control will benefit from the friendly atmosphere that typifies an APACT conference.
The conference is aimed at:
Invited speakers at the conference include:
Process Measurement for Formulation Processes
Hugh Stitt
Johnson Matthey, United Kingdom
Drug product supply chains enabled by continuous manufacturing
Liz Meehan
AstraZeneca (REMEDIES)
Software sensors and inferential estimation - Industrial case studies
Julian Morris
CPACT
Model based optimal process analyzer implementation
Thomas De Beer
Ghent University, Belgium
Raman applications throughout the petroleum refinery - Crude unit to blending
Lee Smith
Process Instruments, USA
Multi-parametric control strategies for enabling continuous biomanufacturing
Christoph Herwig
Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Electrical Tomography for on-line process monitoring
Tom Rodgers
The University of Manchester, UK
Establishment and lifecycle management of Transmission Raman Spectroscopy for near-time monitoring
Vicki Woodward/Nicholas Pedge
AstraZeneca, UK
Digital design (and operation) of drug products and their manufacturing processes
Sean Bermingham
Process Systems Enterprise (ADDopT), UK
High speed video analysis and modelling as techniques for scale up of wet granulation
Patrick Wray
Bristol-Myers Squibb, UK
Scaling up batch polymorphic crystallization using PAT/QbD approach
Wee Chew
Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (ICES), Singapore
APACT '18 is open to all interested participants and will provide opportunities for academics and industrialists to present their knowledge and research to an informed multi-disciplinary audience.
The following courses will take place prior to the conference:
Introduction to Design of Experiments
Introductory Chemometrics without Equations
Batch Process Analysis and Monitoring
