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  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,788 Views
27 Pages

In this study, we developed a control strategy for a drug product prepared by high-shear wet granulation and roller compaction using integrated quality by design (QbD). During the first and second stages, we optimized the process parameters through t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,229 Views
33 Pages

Control strategy and quality by design (QbD) are widely used to develop pharmaceutical products and improve drug quality; however, studies on fixed-dose combination (FDC) bilayer tablets are limited. In this study, the bilayer tablet consisted of hig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
8,757 Views
25 Pages

12 October 2020

Building information modeling (BIM) technology has been utilized increasingly in quantitative ways in the architecture, engineering, and construction disciplines. However, owing to increasing requirements for improvement in qualitative factors in BIM...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,518 Views
21 Pages

25 April 2025

Oral solid drug delivery continues to be the gold standard in pharmaceutical formulations, owing to its cost-effectiveness, ease of administration, and high patient compliance. Tablets, the most widely used dosage form, are favored for their precise...

  • Article
  • Open Access
84 Citations
13,337 Views
17 Pages

Design and Development of a Nearable Wireless System to Control Indoor Air Quality and Indoor Lighting Quality

  • Francesco Salamone,
  • Lorenzo Belussi,
  • Ludovico Danza,
  • Theodore Galanos,
  • Matteo Ghellere and
  • Italo Meroni

4 May 2017

The article describes the results of the project “open source smart lamp” aimed at designing and developing a smart object able to manage and control the indoor environmental quality (IEQ) of the built environment. A first version of this smart objec...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,101 Views
6 Pages

14 November 2016

The article describes the results of the project “open source Smart lamp” aimed at designing and developing a smart object able to manage and control the Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) of the built environment. A first version of this smart objec...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,808 Views
23 Pages

Quality as Driver for Sustainable Construction—Holistic Quality Model and Assessment

  • Li Zhang,
  • Laura Balangé,
  • Kathrin Braun,
  • Roberta Di Bari,
  • Rafael Horn,
  • Deniz Hos,
  • Cordula Kropp,
  • Philip Leistner and
  • Volker Schwieger

23 September 2020

Facing rising building demands due to a fast-growing world population and significant environmental challenges at the same time, the building sector urgently requires innovation. The Cluster of Excellence Integrative Computational Design and Construc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
6,320 Views
28 Pages

New Trends in the Quality Control of Enantiomeric Drugs: Quality by Design-Compliant Development of Chiral Capillary Electrophoresis Methods

  • Serena Orlandini,
  • Gabriel Hancu,
  • Zoltán-István Szabó,
  • Adriana Modroiu,
  • Lajos-Attila Papp,
  • Roberto Gotti and
  • Sandra Furlanetto

19 October 2022

Capillary electrophoresis (CE) is a potent method for analyzing chiral substances and is commonly used in the enantioseparation and chiral purity control of pharmaceuticals from different matrices. The adoption of Quality by Design (QbD) concepts in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
9,492 Views
24 Pages

Process Automation and Control Strategy by Quality-by-Design in Total Continuous mRNA Manufacturing Platforms

  • Axel Schmidt,
  • Heribert Helgers,
  • Florian Lukas Vetter,
  • Steffen Zobel-Roos,
  • Alina Hengelbrock and
  • Jochen Strube

5 September 2022

Vaccine supply has a bottleneck in manufacturing capacity due to operation personnel and chemicals needed. Assessment of existing mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid) vaccine processing show needs for continuous manufacturing processes. This is enabled...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,678 Views
17 Pages

Wet media milling is a fully industrialized technology for the manufacturing of drug nanocrystal suspensions. This work describes the development of an advanced control strategy and an associated design space for a manufacturing process at a commerci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,803 Views
22 Pages

15 September 2024

Built environment and infrastructure designs are produced in complex information systems. Managing this complexity poses a significant challenge; data scarcity and bias are substantial obstacles. This paper addresses the gap in data availability by m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,709 Views
12 Pages

18 April 2023

The rapid development of information and communication technology has fostered a natural integration of technology and design. As a result, there is increasing interest in Augmented Reality (AR) business card systems that leverage digital media. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,043 Views
21 Pages

24 September 2022

Albumin nanocarrier research and development is a challenging area in the field of personalized medicine and in providing advanced therapeutic solutions. Albumin as a biocompatible, nonimmunogenic, and non-toxic protein carrier that can be exploited...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,422 Views
20 Pages

24 November 2021

For aircraft employing the fly-by-wire technique, the closed-loop dynamic characteristics are determined by both the configuration design and the flight control system. As the capacity of the control system has certain limitations, the configuration...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,038 Views
13 Pages

Machine Learning Model for Quality Parameters Prediction and Control System Design in the Kecombrang Flower (Etlingera elatior) Extraction Process

  • Ardiansyah Ardiansyah,
  • Rifda Naufalin,
  • Poppy Arsil,
  • Nurul Latifasari,
  • Rumpoko Wicaksono,
  • Muhammad Syaiful Aliim,
  • Condro Kartiko and
  • Sugeng Waluyo

9 July 2022

Kecombrang flowers have bioactive components that can be used as food additives. The development of the kecombrang functional food industry for the production of food additives requires information on production parameters. The extraction process for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,735 Views
25 Pages

A robust manufacturing process and the relationship between intermediate quality attributes (IQAs), critical quality attributes (CQAs), and critical process parameters (CPPs) for high-shear wet granulation was determined in this study. Based on quali...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,370 Views
17 Pages

An Experimental Design Approach to Quantitative Expression for Quality Control of a Multicomponent Antidiabetic Formulation by the HILIC Method

  • Mahesh Attimarad,
  • Katharigatta Narayanaswamy Venugopala,
  • Muhammad S. Chohan,
  • Marysheela David,
  • Efren II Plaza Molina,
  • Nagaraja Sreeharsha,
  • Anroop Balachandran Nair,
  • Christophe Tratrat,
  • Abdulrahman Ibrahim Altaysan and
  • Abdulmalek Ahmed Balgoname

A rapid and reproducible hydrophilic liquid chromatography (HILIC) process was established for concomitant determination of remogliflozin etabonate (RE), vildagliptin (VD), and metformin (MF) in a formulation. A face-centered central composite experi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,000 Views
19 Pages

Novel Design and Lateral Stability Tracking Control of a Four-Wheeled Rollator

  • Xin Zhang,
  • Jiehao Li,
  • Zhenhuan Hu,
  • Wen Qi,
  • Longbin Zhang,
  • Yingbai Hu,
  • Hang Su,
  • Giancarlo Ferrigno and
  • Elena De Momi

6 June 2019

Design and control of smart rollators have attracted increasing research interests in the past decades. To meet the requirements of the elderly or disabled users, this paper proposes a novel design and tracking control scheme for empowering and assis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,915 Views
19 Pages

Advanced QbD-Based Process Optimization of Clopidogrel Tablets with Insights into Industrial Manufacturing Design

  • Young Woo Bak,
  • Mi Ran Woo,
  • Hyuk Jun Cho,
  • Taek Kwan Kwon,
  • Ho Teak Im,
  • Jung Hyun Cho and
  • Han-Gon Choi

Background/Objectives: Traditional Quality by Testing (QbT) strategies rely heavily on end-product testing and offer limited insight into how critical process parameters (CPPs) influence product quality. This increases the risk of variability and inc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
130 Citations
19,380 Views
45 Pages

Various frameworks and methods, such as quality by design (QbD), real time release test (RTRT), and continuous process verification (CPV), have been introduced to improve drug product quality in the pharmaceutical industry. The methods recognize that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
11,453 Views
27 Pages

5 May 2023

Lyophilization is a widely used preservation method for thermosensitive products. It consists of three process steps: freezing, primary and secondary drying. One of the major drawbacks is the long processing time. The main optimization effort was put...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,561 Views
18 Pages

Intelligent Framework Design for Quality Control in Industry 4.0

  • Yousaf Ali,
  • Syed Waqar Shah,
  • Arsalan Arif,
  • Mehdi Tlija and
  • Mudasir Raza Siddiqi

2 September 2024

This research aims to develop an intelligent framework for quality control and fault detection in pre-production and post-production systems in Industry 4.0. In the pre-production system, the health of the manufacturing machine is monitored. In this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,091 Views
26 Pages

Background: An infectious disease can affect human beings at an alarming speed in modern society, where Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to a worldwide pandemic, posing grave threats to public security and the social economies. However, as...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,460 Views
20 Pages

Robust H Design for Resonant Control in a CVCF Inverter Application over Load Uncertainties

  • Holman Bueno-Contreras,
  • Germán Andrés Ramos and
  • Ramon Costa-Castelló

CVCF (constant voltage, constant frequency) inverters are electronic devices used to supply AC loads from DC storage elements such as batteries or photovoltaic cells. These devices are used to feed different kinds of loads; this uncertainty requires...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,813 Views
30 Pages

10 November 2022

Climate change affects fruit crops’ growth and development by delaying fruit ripening, reducing color development, and lowering fruit quality and yield. The irregular date palm fruit ripening in the past few years is assumed to be related to cl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,193 Views
24 Pages

19 December 2024

As the aging population increases, elderly drivers face challenges due to physical and cognitive decline, in addition to the growing complexity of in-car technology and interaction features. This study aims to optimize the in-car control interface fo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,672 Views
15 Pages

Quality by Design: A Suitable Methodology in Industrial Pharmacy for Costa Rican Universities

  • Luis Castillo-Henríquez,
  • Brayan Murillo-Castillo,
  • Lexi Chaves-Siles,
  • Juan José Mora-Román,
  • Nils Ramírez-Arguedas,
  • Édgar Hernández-Mora and
  • José Vega-Baudrit

This review aims to present the Quality by Design (QbD) model as a suitable methodology to perform research in the academic Costa Rican institutions that teach Pharmacy. Pubmed, Science Direct, and Google Scholar databases were screened for original...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,232 Views
15 Pages

An Experimental Approach for Secondary Consensus Control Tuning for Inverter-Based Islanded Microgrids

  • Gabriel Nasser Doyle de Doile,
  • Pedro Paulo Balestrassi,
  • Miguel Castilla,
  • Antonio Carlos Zambroni de Souza and
  • Jaume Miret

3 January 2023

A microgrid is a group of interconnected loads and distributed energy resources that can fill the gap between the dependence on a bulk power grid and the transition to renewable energies. The islanded mode presents itself as the most interesting scen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,140 Views
23 Pages

Emerging PAT for Freeze-Drying Processes for Advanced Process Control

  • Alex Juckers,
  • Petra Knerr,
  • Frank Harms and
  • Jochen Strube

12 October 2022

Lyophilization is a widely used drying operation, but long processing times are a major drawback. Most lyophilization processes are conducted by a recipe that is not changed or optimized after implementation. With the regulatory demanded quality by d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,971 Views
23 Pages

18 January 2024

Digital twins have emerged as a powerful concept for real-time monitoring and analysis, facilitating Quality by Design integration into biopharmaceutical manufacturing. Traditionally, lyophilization processes are developed through trial-and-error, in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,061 Views
18 Pages

Quality by design (QbD) serves as a systematic approach to pharmaceutical development, beginning with predefined objectives and emphasizing an understanding of the product based on sound science and risk management. The purpose of this study is to ut...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,308 Views
29 Pages

Crowdsourcing as a Tool for Urban Emergency Management: Lessons from the Literature and Typology

  • Ramon Chaves,
  • Daniel Schneider,
  • António Correia,
  • Claudia L. R. Motta and
  • Marcos R. S. Borges

28 November 2019

Recently, citizen involvement has been increasingly used in urban disaster prevention and management, taking advantage of new ubiquitous and collaborative technologies. This scenario has created a unique opportunity to leverage the work of crowds of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,353 Views
19 Pages

Digital Twins for scFv Production in Escherichia coli

  • Heribert Helgers,
  • Alina Hengelbrock,
  • Axel Schmidt,
  • Florian Lukas Vetter,
  • Alex Juckers and
  • Jochen Strube

20 April 2022

Quality-by-Design (QbD) is demanded by regulatory authorities in biopharmaceutical production. Within the QbD frame advanced process control (APC), facilitated through process analytical technology (PAT) and digital twins (DT), plays an increasingly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,086 Views
20 Pages

QbD Design, Formulation, Optimization and Evaluation of Trans-Tympanic Reverse Gelatination Gel of Norfloxacin: Investigating Gene-Gene Interactions to Enhance Therapeutic Efficacy

  • Amit Budhori,
  • Abhishek Tiwari,
  • Varsha Tiwari,
  • Ajay Sharma,
  • Manish Kumar,
  • Girendra Gautam,
  • Tarun Virmani,
  • Girish Kumar,
  • Abdulsalam Alhalmi and
  • Ramzi A. Mothana
  • + 2 authors

15 August 2023

Traditional otic drug delivery methods lack controlled release capabilities, making reverse gelatination gels a promising alternative. Reverse gelatination gels are colloidal systems that transition from a sol to a gel phase at the target site, provi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,836 Views
33 Pages

13 January 2021

High-fidelity characterization and effective monitoring of spatial and spatiotemporal processes are crucial for high-performance quality control of many manufacturing processes and systems in the era of smart manufacturing. Although the recent develo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,243 Views
11 Pages

14 December 2016

Informative data collection is important in the identification and conservation of rare plant species. Data sets generated by many small-scale studies may be integrated into large, distributed databases, and statistical tools are being developed to e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,719 Views
21 Pages

Toward Autonomous Production of mRNA-Therapeutics in the Light of Advanced Process Control and Traditional Control Strategies for Chromatography

  • Florian Lukas Vetter,
  • Steffen Zobel-Roos,
  • José Paulo Barbosa Mota,
  • Bernt Nilsson,
  • Axel Schmidt and
  • Jochen Strube

15 September 2022

mRNA-based therapeutics are predicted to have a bright future. Recently, a B2C study was published highlighting the critical bottlenecks of mRNA manufacturing. The study focused on supply bottlenecks of various chemicals as well as shortages of skill...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,481 Views
21 Pages

21 October 2023

During the construction of a diversion tunnel, geological problems often include faults, fragile strata, hard rock formations, karst landforms, etc., which may have adverse effects on the excavation and construction of the diversion tunnel. Based on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,256 Views
29 Pages

Optimal Design and Control of MMC STATCOM for Improving Power Quality Indicators

  • Ahmed A. Zaki Diab,
  • Terad Ebraheem,
  • Raseel Aljendy,
  • Hamdy M. Sultan and
  • Ziad M. Ali

4 April 2020

In recent years, modular multilevel converters (MMC) are becoming popular in the distribution and transmission of electrical systems. The multilevel converter suffers from circulating current within the converter that increases the conduction loss of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,615 Views
22 Pages

Digital Twin for HIV-Gag VLP Production in HEK293 Cells

  • Alina Hengelbrock,
  • Heribert Helgers,
  • Axel Schmidt,
  • Florian Lukas Vetter,
  • Alex Juckers,
  • Jamila Franca Rosengarten,
  • Jörn Stitz and
  • Jochen Strube

27 April 2022

The development and adoption of digital twins (DT) for Quality-by-Design (QbD)-based processes with flexible operating points within a proven acceptable range (PAR) and automation through Advanced Process Control (APC) with Process Analytical Technol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,520 Views
31 Pages

19 March 2020

This study focuses on the design of a measuring system for monitoring the power quality within the SMART street lighting test polygon at university campuses with relation to testing an adaptive current control strategy for three-phase shunt active po...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,038 Views
20 Pages

Design and Improvement of an Automated Tool for Quality Control and Performance Assessment of Photovoltaic Modules

  • Alain Foutche Tchouli,
  • Stephane Ndiya Ngasop,
  • Jean Hilaire Tchami,
  • Claude Bertin Nzoundja Fapi and
  • Hyacinthe Tchakounté

16 April 2025

Photovoltaic (PV) systems are at the heart of the energy transition, providing an essential source of clean, renewable energy for applications such as solar pumping, which is essential for irrigation and rural water supply. However, their efficiency...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
9,901 Views
22 Pages

22 April 2014

Electric power systems are among the greatest achievements of the last century. Today, important issues, such as an ever-increasing demand, the flexible and reliable integration of distributed generation or a growth in disturbing loads, must be borne...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
14,879 Views
46 Pages

26 September 2023

This paper aims to review the engineering controls for indoor air quality (IAQ) from a systems design perspective. As a result of the review, we classify the literature content into three categories: (1) indoor air treatments, (2) dissemination contr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,072 Views
21 Pages

26 September 2022

The Unified Power Quality Conditioner (UPQC) is one of the Custom Power devices (CP), and it mitigates both load current and supply voltage problems (voltage swells, sags, harmonics, etc.) simultaneously. By using CP, we are getting more familiar wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,350 Views
25 Pages

Although various quality by design (QbD) approaches have been used to establish a design space to obtain robust drug formulation and process parameters, the effect of excipient variability on the design space and drug product quality is unclear. In t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,942 Views
21 Pages

Nowadays, the proliferation of distributed renewable energy sources is a fact. A microgrid is a good solution to self-manage the energy generation and consumption of electrical loads and sources from the point of view of the consumer as well as the p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,009 Views
16 Pages

4 April 2021

Though many scholars and practitioners are paying more attention to the health and life of the public after the COVID-19 outbreak, extant literature has so far failed to explore the variation of ambient air quality during this pandemic. The current s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,123 Views
22 Pages

14 December 2018

This note presents an optimal design method to enhance image quality in optical image stabilization (OIS) systems. First of all, performance limitations of conventional methods are shown and secondly, a new design framework based on convex optimizati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,833 Views
16 Pages

Inspired by the United States Pharmacopoeia (USP) “monograph modernization” initiative, we developed and validated an assay for foscarnet sodium injection solution (“foscavir”), following quality by design (QbD) principles, incorporating design of ex...

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