How to Select a Particle Analyser: Understanding What’s Right for Your Process

We’ve created this guide on how to select a particle analyser depending on what’s right for your process.

Industry 5.0 In Ireland: Is the Manufacturing Industry Ready for Adopting New Methods in 2023?

Is the manufacturing industry ready for Industry 5.0 in Ireland in 2023? We’re taking a look at what the current landscape of the manufacturing industry in Ireland looks like and what it’s prepared for in the near future.

8 Benefits of Implementing an Automated Process Control System with Innopharma Technology

The main benefits of implementing an Innopharma Technology automation process control system can be broken down into three sections: technical benefits, financial benefits, and community benefits. Read here to find out.

Process Analytical Technology: A Complete Guide for Manufacturers

Process analytical technology is the latest and greatest development for the likes of the pharmaceutical industry. Here's more about what it is and how it helps.

Department Budgeting Solved – Or at Least Helpful Hints

This article focuses on the different ways to approach budgeting as they apply to lab managers, manufacturing managers and department heads. Budgeting is how the manager provides what personnel need to achieve not just the organization's short-term goals, but to start the journey to the long-term strategic goals.

Industry 5.0: Everything to Know About the New Industrial Revolution

As of now, we’re in the end stages of Industry 4.0, which has shown us how the world can move to a digital space. But technologists, scientists, manufacturers, and more are gearing up for the next big movement: Industry 5.0.

Insights From The Responsible Business Conduct, Innovation and AI Symposium ‘22

Automated Image Analysis: The power of Convolutional Neural Networks

Image analysis is the process of extracting meaningful information from images. The type and amount of information depends on the context and application. For example, the Eyecon2 particle-size analyser contains an automated image-analysis component that is designed to measure attributes of every particle in an image. Figure 1 shows an example image of coated sphere particles.

How Big Data Can Boost Manufacturing Efficiency

Over the last decade, manufacturers have been able to reduce waste in and enhance product yield from their manufacturing processes by implementing Six Sigma and Lean techniques. However, the volatile nature of today's manufacturing sector requires a more granular approach to discovering and fixing process problems. Nowadays, manufacturers are turning to using Big Data to help tackle this problem.

How To Reduce Manufacturing Costs

In manufacturing, delivering high-quality products without exceeding budget is a huge challenge. Read here to learn how manufacturing costs can be reduced.

AI In Pharma Manufacturing: Benefits & Uses

Over the last decade, advancements driven by Machine Learning (ML) a form of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the pharmaceutical industry is the stuff of exciting sci-fi.

Benefits of Real-Time Particle Size Analysis

Particle size analysis involves measuring and sorting particles by their size and mass to determine the range and distribution of particle sizes included in a sample. Particle size analysis is used across many industries, particularly pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Quick Guide to Particle Size Distribution

Particle size distribution (PSD) is the means of measuring the number of particles by mass and size to calculate a size and mass range. D-values can be thought of as a mass division diameter. It is the diameter which, when all particles in a sample are arranged in order of ascending mass, divides the sample's mass into specified percentages.

What is Power BI and what is it used for?

What is Power BI and what is it used for? Power BI is an easy-to-use business intelligence platform by Microsoft which collects and visualizes data.

How to Establish a Particle Size Specification for OSD Control

Particle variability, particularly particle size distribution (PSD), can substantially impact the flowability, blend uniformity, compressibility, dissolution rate and bioavailability of OSD. The result of these factors ultimately impacts the safety, efficacy, and quality of drugs. Controlling and monitoring PSD in your process is among the highest priority in the pharmaceutical industry.

A Guide to Mulitparticulates and the Developmental Role of PAT

Multiple unit dosage forms (MUDF), also known as multiparticluates provide benefits in formulation flexibility such as immediate-release, delayed-release and sustained-release from a single dosage form, simply by changing the coating properties. This guide demonstrates the benefits of using PAT for multiparticulate development and control.

A COVID-19 Vaccine Is Coming, but Can We Make It Safe, Fast and Effective Enough?

2021 may be the year we see promising vaccines gain approval and enter production, but do we have the manufacturing capability to rapidly scale production to meet feverish global demand? With SmartX, we can.

Reduce the Burden on Quality With NIR

Quality standards are continuously pushed higher by regulators, leading to an increased burden on quality. Newer, smarter technologies are the key to combating the rising costs and elevated pressures faced by the quality department

Improved Quality Through Human-Centric Data

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is generating immense amounts of data. SmartX takes a human-centric approach that makes sense of this data through real-time visualisation. SmartX allows you to make robust assessments and decisions at a glance, resulting in higher standards of quality.

What Is Quality 4.0?

Our industry is moving towards the factory of the future with Quality 4.0. Massive gains in process insight, efficiency and control can be made through the digitisation of the workplace, leading to greater robustness and efficiency in our processes.

ATEX Equipment Classification

ATEX markings are confusing. We breakdown the ATEX labels to explain what the markings mean and how zones are classified based on temperature, gas, and dust, etc.

Unravelling ATEX - A Guide for Everyone

Several standardisation bodies have input into the ATEX regulatory standard, making the descriptive markings used by these multiple bodies a point of confusion because the markings are often similar. This blog will demystify the basic principles and markings of ATEX.

Process Automation by the Real Experts

Process automation has been around for a long time, but for Pharma, it has been slower to catch-on than in many other industries. With regulators like the FDA funding research, a defined pathway to automation is available for those ready and able to take it.

Better Data Management in Process Development

Data management and data integrity are concepts at the core of modern pharmaceutical businesses. SmartX is designed from the ground-up to support process data from development to scale-up and manufacturing can contribute substantially to product knowledge and process understanding.

The Key To Sustainable Cosmetics Is Manufacturing Efficiency

Since we now actively look to reduce our impact on the planet, ‘sustainability’ is a word gaining massive backing. We’re looking for it in everything from our food, phones, and face creams. By focusing on what manufacturers can do right now with recent technological advancements, we can start to make a positive, practical change.

Making Cosmetics Safer

From the start, humans have been interested in the visual, appearance-altering aspects of cosmetics. But now, our focus is equally spent on making products safer and easier to manufacture. As technology advanced and new materials were discovered, we didn’t always have the greatest track record in product safety. We explore why

Decentralizing Manufacturing Because of COVID-19

COVID-19 has challenged us to look at new ways of manufacturing. Just-in-time and lean production has exposed the fragility of our supply chains during the global pandemic. We discuss what has changed, and what will change post-COVID-19.

SmartX – Providing Process Control Solutions

The pharmaceutical industry is evolving to embrace Industry 4.0 technologies in an effort to modify approaches to drug development and manufacturing. SmartX is Innopharma Technology’s Industry 4.0 platform, designed to accelerate process development and to automate process control in the Pharmaceutical and related manufacturing industries.

The Changing Face Of Cosmetics Manufacturing

The desire for newer, safer, more vibrant and effective cosmetic products led to millennia of technological advancements. We investigate the complexity of modern cosmetics manufacturing and the need for controlling particle size distribution for product quality and safety.

SmartX: A New Approach to Industry 4.0 in Pharma

SmartX is among a new wave of software suites to come to market that defies definition under traditional industrial automation nomenclature. Here is how this Pharma-focused Industry 4.0 platform is adding more value to process development and manufacturing activities.

To Industry 4.0 and Beyond

The dawn of the 4th industrial revolution is upon us. SmartX, our Industry 4.0 system, allows connections with a vast array of sensor and process equipment, irrespective of brand and build.

Sifting Through Sieve Analysis

Sieving is often very time consuming and limited to off-line measurement. We have created a detailed review of industry-standard methods such as sieve analysis and image analysis, where we contrast the principles of both methods using our in-house analyser.

A Focused Review of Dynamic Light Scattering

At Innopharma Technology, we are exploring the complex particle size measurement landscape. In this blog, we reviewed industry-standard methods such as Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS), contrasting the principles of DLS against image analysis.

A breakthrough in real-time dissolution prediction for multiparticulate drug delivery

Innopharma, Colorcon, and Glatt collaborated to study accurate and rapid quantification of dissolution performance. This study demonstrated the possibility of predicting dissolution drug release profiles on multiparticulates in a Wurster coating process in real-time.

Jumpstart Manufacturing with Intelligence

Increased awareness means an increase in demand. Are you scaling up to win this demand-supply race? Many particle size analysers will require additional accessories, which is time-consuming and expensive. With Eyecon2, there’s none needed!

An end-to-end review of Laser Diffraction

Among many methods of particle sizing used by different industries, Laser diffraction is a method where PSD is calculated by analysing the scatter pattern of light from a sample. In this article, we've tried to simplify the physics of it.

Crystals in the making

Poor control and efficiency of the crystallisation process is a continuous struggle for the API industry, resulting in a billion dollars worth of batch waste. Can a cloud-based real-time process intelligence system help them?

Using near-infrared spectroscopy to shine light into the causes of hay fever

NIR spectroscopy is an extremely flexible technology that opens a world of applications. Widely used in a range of industries spanning from pharmaceutical, chemical, and food, NIR can be used to rapidly and reliably identify pollen count in the air.

Understanding Crystallisation and Why It Matters

Crystallisation is pivotal to the chemical and food industry resulting in 70% of all solid materials produced. Among 80% of world’s production of APIs include at least one step of crystallisation to define the stability and drug release properties of the final dosage forms. Here is why!

Pharma 4.0: Integrating Multieye₂ Near Infrared Spectrophotometer with SmartX

Regulators across the world, including ISPE and the FDA, are encouraging Pharma manufacturers to adopt methods for real-time process monitoring and automation. How can you adopt this in your processes?

HORIBA Instruments announces exclusive distribution in the Americas

HORIBA Instruments Incorporated, a part of the HORIBA Group of worldwide companies, announces an exclusive distribution in the Americas with Innopharma technology.

IFPAC 2020 - Pharma's road to Industry 4.0

Is Pharma's road to 4.0 a combination of first-principles models and machine learning?

Eyecon₂ is now a step ahead in smart analysis

Eyecon₂ is a second-generation particle size analyser, now with fully automated benchtop analysis. The newly developed robotic stage can negate the need for the user to move the sample disk manually.

Optimising Process Efficiency of a Fluid Bed System Through Advanced Automation

The Pharmaceutical Technology magazine has published Innopharma's research paper on advanced dynamic process control, using the automated process control platform SmartX in their January 2020 issue.

Embracing Transformation

The originator of the 4th Industrial Revolution, Henrik Von Scheel, addressed the 2019 Innopharma event in Dublin. Director of Innopharma Technology, Sean Costello, explained Henrik's keynote in the lights of the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry.

Reflections from ISPE 2019 Europe Pharma 4.0 Conference

Innopharma Technology attended the 2019 ISPE Europe Pharma 4.0 Conference at Manchester, UK. It was excellent exposure towards the Pharma 4.0 Revolution. Director Sean Costello penned down his views post-event.

Innopharma Technology awarded €2.3m EU Innovation funding to develop an Advanced Manufacturing platform

Innopharma is proud to become one of the only two Irish companies to secure EU Horizon 2020 Funding. This funding will be utilised for further development of an advanced crystallisation platform for better manufacturing insight and real-time control.

Winner of Innovation of the Year Award

We are all incredibly proud following our win for Innovation of the Year in the Design & Manufacturing category at The Irish Times Innovation Awards last night.

Innopharma Technology makes the list of 15 finalists chosen for the Irish Times Innovation Awards

Innopharma Technology is delighted to reach the finals of the Irish Times Innovation Awards 2018.

Innopharma Technology announces the release of Eyepass™ software and launches Eyecon₂™ Particle Size Analyser in India

Innopharma Technology, today announces the worldwide release of the latest version of Eyepass particle analysis software and the upcoming launch of Eyecon₂ for the Indian market at CPHI/P-MEC, Mumbai 21st to 23rd November.

Innopharma Technology announces strategic collaboration with Glatt India

Innopharma Technology Launches Eyecon₂™ Particle Size Analyser at POWTECH

Eyecon₂ which is launched today at POWTECH will also be showcased during April at INTERPHEX April 26-28 New York, and MAKING PHARMACEUTICALS April 26-27, Birmingham, UK.

Glatt & Innopharma Workshop at Imperial War Museum, Duxford