Process Analytical Technology (PAT) provides opportunity to realize significant benefits to manufacturing companies and industries. It replaces the QC lab's historical role of raw materials testing, batch testing, and finished product testing. By performing testing of materials during the manufacturing process it becomes possible to:
- Understand and verify the quality of entire batches of material, rather than that of poorly "representative" batches or samples
- Characterize the behavior of a process such as blending, drying and reactions, improving yields and efficiency
- Control product quality to new levels
- Adjust manufacturing processes in real time
- Eliminate dependency upon lengthy laboratory testing.
Bridging the Analytical Gap
The NicoletTM Antaris FT-NIR analyzer from Thermo is designed and developed to bridge the analytical gap between laboratory and manufacturing environments. The industrial design of the Nicolet Antaris FT-NIR makes it the only NIR analyzer designed for method development in a lab and deployment into a manufacturing environment â all on a single analyzer platform.
Method Development Excellence
The MDS (Method Development Sampling) System provides a complete suite of sampling techniques without any instrument reconfiguration, to give the method developer pathways to the optimal method for the target environment. The leading method development tools for near-infrared are all compatible, including TQ Analyst, GRAMS, Pirouette, and Unscrambler. Method files are then simply transferred to the dedicated product analyzer without re-calibration or software customization.
Bringing the Instrument to the Data Points
The Nicolet Antaris analyzer works with the industry's leading suppliers of industrial fiber optic probes and cable for extending near-infrared analysis into all types of equipment and the most extreme environments. A wide range of standard and custom probes is available for NIR reflection and transmission sampling. Differences in optical fibers themselves are commonly a source of calibration variation in near-infrared spectroscopy. The exclusive ACLS algorithm, developed in conjunction with Sandia National Laboratory, provides a revolutionary way for PAT applications to remove fiber optic effects without adjusting original calibrations.
Information Systems Integration
Managing and making use of manufacturing process data often requires connection to or integration with data bases and control systems. Whether a system is simply monitoring for a completion or alarm condition or providing real-time feedback for process control, real-time system I/O and remote access might be essential. The RESULTTM software system includes OPC Server technology for the most advanced and future-compatible system integration.
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