AEA package `can save $1million/day'
15 Jan 2000
A system that helps chemical and pharmaceutical companies advance their products to market can save them up to $1million per day, according to its developers at AEA Technology.
The Batch Design Kit (BDK) package works by identifying the best chemical synthesis route for manufacturing, allowing engineers to streamline their process development efforts, allowing them to `develop robust processes which scale up reliably, minimise costs and reduce commercial risk,' says AEA. The system fulfills an urgent need for batch process users. `Companies need to dramatically increase the number of new products they bring to market, while reducing overall development costs,' says sales manager Chris Price. BDK does this by giving the development chemists and engineers the power to make decisions that reduce `concept-to-market timescales', he explains.
Users of BDK include Rohm and Haas, which selected the system because of its enhancement of communications. `Due to its focus on process development, BDK is ideally suited to the needs of the process chemist and engineers during all stages of process development,' comments senior scientist John Berrier.
