Control Strategies of Solid Dosage Forms by PAT Tools

As the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry is moving from batch-wise production to continuous production, concepts such as quality by design, continuous process verification and real time release testing are gaining importance. These approaches need real-time measurements of Critical Quality Attributes (CQAs) of the processed matter. The technologies enabling these measurements are grouped under the name of “Process Analytical Technologies” (PAT). The present chapter covers some of the most used PAT tools and the general strategy to analyse their outputs.