{"title":"The transformative power of artificial intelligence in pharmaceutical manufacturing: Enhancing efficiency, product quality, and safety","authors":"Mukesh Vijayarangam Rajesh, Karthikeyan Elumalai","doi":"10.1016/j.jhip.2025.03.007","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The pharmaceutical manufacturing industry transforms through artificial intelligence (AI) by implementing process improvements along with productivity enhancements and product quality improvements. The combination of big data and AI applications through machine learning algorithms analyzes manufacturing inefficiencies and recommends improvements for both medicine formulation and packaging as well as quality control measures. The combination of temperature adjustment, pressure adjustment, and ingredient proportion control enables AI to enhance the production efficiency of tablets, capsules, and injections, and decrease both time requirements and cost expenses. AI also enhances blister pack and vial packing methods and automates quality control inspections to ensure consistency of products by detecting defects. Consistent, reliable, and effective production processes rely on real-time monitoring and AI-driven adjustments, which directly contribute to manufacturing pharmaceutical products of improved quality. The continuous observation of the production process by AI helps to detect safety-related risks, including equipment failures and contamination risks, while addressing them promptly to preserve production security. The utilization of AI helps businesses identify necessary equipment maintenance demands which enables companies to organize maintenance before equipment breakdowns occur. AI-driven data insights enable companies to make strategic choices based on real-time data, automate operational processes for efficiency, and respond to emerging industry patterns positively. Through enhanced operational efficiency, waste minimization, and improvement of profit margins, AI integration in pharmaceutical production can transform the sector.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100787,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Holistic Integrative Pharmacy","volume":"6 2","pages":"Pages 125-135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Holistic Integrative Pharmacy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2707368825000135","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The pharmaceutical manufacturing industry transforms through artificial intelligence (AI) by implementing process improvements along with productivity enhancements and product quality improvements. The combination of big data and AI applications through machine learning algorithms analyzes manufacturing inefficiencies and recommends improvements for both medicine formulation and packaging as well as quality control measures. The combination of temperature adjustment, pressure adjustment, and ingredient proportion control enables AI to enhance the production efficiency of tablets, capsules, and injections, and decrease both time requirements and cost expenses. AI also enhances blister pack and vial packing methods and automates quality control inspections to ensure consistency of products by detecting defects. Consistent, reliable, and effective production processes rely on real-time monitoring and AI-driven adjustments, which directly contribute to manufacturing pharmaceutical products of improved quality. The continuous observation of the production process by AI helps to detect safety-related risks, including equipment failures and contamination risks, while addressing them promptly to preserve production security. The utilization of AI helps businesses identify necessary equipment maintenance demands which enables companies to organize maintenance before equipment breakdowns occur. AI-driven data insights enable companies to make strategic choices based on real-time data, automate operational processes for efficiency, and respond to emerging industry patterns positively. Through enhanced operational efficiency, waste minimization, and improvement of profit margins, AI integration in pharmaceutical production can transform the sector.