When manufacturing pharmaceuticals, a company is only as good as its machinery and workforce; Natoli showcases its top-of-the-line tablet and capsule compression tooling machines (page 12), while CARBOGEN AMCIS discusses the importance of managing talent in a contract development and manufacturing organisation (page 14).

The world is becoming more and more digitalised as time goes on, and this is no different in the pharma sector. Hot topic tools such as generative artificial intelligence (genAI) (Iktos, page 26) and cloud computing (SciY, page 32) are increasingly being used in drug development, with AI usage now being commonplace in life sciences data programming, safety and pharmacovigilance, and medical monitoring, among other elements (Hexaware, page 34).

Bringing this edition of IPT Winter to a close, Labforward talks about AI’s use in connecting labs and creating digital lab assistants to aid pharma research (page 46) – a futuristic concept already in place and showing that anything is possible as we look into the new year.

Don’t forget to look back at this year’s magazines to recap on some of the most interesting topics in pharmaceutical technology; we’ll see you in 2025 with more insights from the sector’s leading voices.