Process Analytical Technology - Enabling PAT at Technopharm

A safe, reliable, reproducible process is essential to ensure that pharmaceutical products have the specified properties and quality.

GEA Pharma Systems can help you to understand and monitor your process better using tools such as the Lighthouse Probe™, TLC™.

• Solutions ‘ready to use’
• Development partnership approach
• Test centres equipped with numerous technologies supported by our experienced process experts
• The Lighthouse Probe™ sets the standard for process inspection

Lighthouse Probe™ System
enabling PAT

GEA Pharma Systems has joined forces with J&M Analytik AG to create a compact and cleanable in-process optical probe for use in powder processing equipment.

1. probe with optics
2. spectrometer
3. software
4. movement unit and housing
5. CIP unit

Parameters:

• drying end point
• granulation end point
• granulation homogeneity
• blending end point
• blending homogeneity
• coat thickness
• active content, ex. water, API, excipients

Features:

• full CIP possible
• in-line window wash
• in-line calibration
• no window fouling
• in-product measurement with 360 degrees
• various optical methods available (DA-NIR, FT-NIR, Raman, UV, VIS) ... Read more