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News Release from: DEM Solutions | Subject: C-SOPS
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 15 January 2008
Analysis and visualisation of
particulate flow
DEM Solutions provides computer modeling software to aid in cutting edge pharmaceutical research at the engineering research centre for structured organic particulate systems (C-SOPS)
EM Solutions, a world leader of discrete element modeling (DEM) software, announces its collaboration 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 Centre for Structured Organic Particulate Systems (C-SOPS) is a National Science Foundation-sponsored Engineering Research Center (ERC) that brings together a cross-disciplinary team of academic and industry engineers, scientists and innovative technology firms
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 30 May 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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As a new member of the C-SOPS, DEM Solutions will contribute its DEM software technology and experience in industrial application of DEM.
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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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, Pfizer 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, further comments 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 multi-component particulate products and their associated manufacturing processes will occur via predictive models supported by a minimum of key experiments".
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