DEM to
Provide Discrete Modeling to C-SOPS
 LEBANON,
NH, and EDINBURGH, Scotland, UK, Jan 11, 2008 - DEM Solutions, a world
leader of discrete element modeling (DEM) software, announces its
collaboration with Rutgers University and its partner institutions, Purdue
University, the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the University of
Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, in their research and technology program aimed at
improving manufacturing processes in pharmaceutical, food and agrochemical
industries.
The Center for Structured Organic Particulate Systems (C-SOPS) is
a National Science Foundation-sponsored Engineering Research Center
(ERC) that brings together a cross-disciplinary team of academic and
industry engineers, scientists and innovative technology firms. DEM
Solutions innovative particle mechanics simulation software, EDEM,
enables detailed analysis and visualization of particulate flow. As
a new member of the C-SOPS, DEM Solutions will contribute its DEM
software technology and experience in industrial application of DEM.
Dr Fernando Muzzio, Director of the C-SOPS and Professor of
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Rutgers stated, “We are
pleased to welcome DEM Solutions as a new member of the C-SOPS. EDEM
will provide us with enhanced capabilities to simulate complex
particulate systems giving us valuable information for use in the
research and development of key particulate manufacturing
processes.”
A large portion of ongoing research at C-SOPS focuses on design
and process improvement for the pharmaceutical industry. Industrial
members of the C-SOPS include Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers
Squibb, Eli Lilly, Johnson and Johnson, PepsiCo, Pfizer and
Schering-Plough. A number of these companies are already using DEM
Solutions EDEM technology in the design and optimization of their
particle handling and processing operations.
A recent US FDA initiative, the Quality by Design initiative (QbD),
encourages the pharmaceutical industry to adopt innovative
technologies including computer simulation to enhance fundamental
understanding and control of pharmaceutical manufacturing processes.
The use of particle mechanics simulation software, such as EDEM, can
also lower experimental and prototyping costs because experimental
design and process changes can be “virtually” modeled, tested, and
evaluated.
Dr. Gintara Reklaitis, Deputy Director of the C-SOPS and
Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue, further comments that,
“Advanced modeling tools such as those provided by DEM Solutions are
of critical importance to the realization of the C-SOPS vision that
the rational design of multi-component particulate products and
their associated manufacturing processes will occur via predictive
models supported by a minimum of key experiments.”
About DEM Solutions
DEM Solutions partners with their customers to improve their
products and processes by simulating and analyzing operations at the
particle scale. First released in 2005 EDEM software is now used in
the design and analysis of particulate handling, processing, and
manufacturing operations in almost every industry sector and
engineering discipline. EDEM provides companies with a tool to
substantially reduce the number of physical prototypes and tests
required to get a product to market or a process on-stream. It is
used to help trouble-shoot difficult particulate processes and,
because it is physics-based, it can greatly improve understanding of
system fundamentals leading to better product and process design and
innovation.
DEM Solutions’ corporate headquarters are located in Edinburgh,
Scotland with a subsidiary in Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA and sales
offices and distributor representation worldwide.
For more information, visit
www.dem-solutions.com.
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