People have recognized the promise of continuous manufacturing processes ever since Henry Ford’s auto assembly line kicked into action. Even so, pharmaceuticals are still made in batches. Proponents ...

Continuous-motion assembly engineering can be performed concurrently with new product design or to make existing manufacturing systems more efficient. John Giacopelli Increasingly, manufacturers of ...

Based in Tampa, Florida, Virginia Pelley is a former women's magazine editor who has written health and fitness content for Men's Journal, Cosmopolitan magazine, the Chicago Tribune, ...

Pharmaceutical manufacturing has traditionally been performed using batch process techniques. Batch processes have been proven over many decades of use, but can have shortcomings when it comes to ...

The current trend in the pharmaceutical industry for the manufacture of small-molecule therapeutic agents is moving toward continuous flow processes. This article is part of a special issue on APIs.