Engineering research center for structured organic particulate synthesis (ERC-SOPS)

The ERC-SOPS is an NSF-funded collaborative effort to improve existing manufacturing processes and develop new ones for the pharmaceutical industry. Participants include four universities and several industrial partners, including pharmaceutical companies and vendors of equipment and control systems. A primary goal of the Center is to demonstrate continuous and real-time control of pharmaceutical manufacturing processes, which have hitherto been restricted to batch operations. This document describes some of the efforts that have been made towards achieving this goal.