Lilly: academic about manufacturing

As Eli Lilly and Co. moves toward continuous manufacturing, the pharma is deepening ties with two academic centers to meet an array of engineering challenges. Through partnerships with Carnegie Mellon University, and the U.K.’s Imperial College and University College London, Lilly hopes to bring computer modeling to improve both operations and decision-making.

Continuous manufacturing offers the promise of greater efficiency and lower cost than traditional batch manufacturing, but on the whole pharmas have been slow to embrace the technology. ...