The food and pharmaceutical industries strives to improve the monitoring of their production processes. The Innovation Consortium "QbD - Quality by Design in the Food and Pharmaceutical Industries" is a collaboration between 9 partners working together for each to improve their competitiveness through the use of sensors and statistical tools to develop new approaches to monitor the production processes.

Quality by Design has been of increasing importance for both the Food and the Pharmaceutical industries for some years, but the technological development is far behind the philosophy and concepts formulated. The industries have been hesitant despite a pull from regulatory bodies to implement the concepts to enable them to utilize the Process Analytical Technologies relevant to achieve Quality by Design. Only few very early adaptors have had some initial experience with Process Analytical Technologies and the major part of industry and the supporting instrumentation sector are sitting on the fence. The QbD seeks to contribute to the progress and actively take a lead on this development to:

• Enable the processing industries to test and demonstrate novel sensor technologies and data analysis methods and get documented experience with QbD solutions.
• Demonstrate the market potential and accelerate the development of new sensor systems and associated data integration in the instrumentation and process consultancy industries.

The project is funded by the partners and in part by the Forsknings- og Innovationsstyrelsen.

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