About

Rainer Bauer is an Automation Engineer at Boehringer Ingelheim. He has 15 years of engineering experience in the pharmaceutical industry in several positions. With a keen interest in gravimetric 100% control for micro-dosed dry powder inhalers, calibration robots, vision and control systems (VCSs) for programmable logic controllers (PLCs), and wireless temperature monitoring, Mr Bauer’s experience spans instrumentation, measurement analysis, process analysis, software development, IT in automation, agile dev tools, networks and automation business systems. He is trained as an electrical engineer.

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INDUSTRIALISATION

MANUFACTURING DPIS: CASE STUDY OF IMA ADAPTA^® WITH BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM SPIRIVA^®

Pietro Piera and Rainer Bauer investigate the optimal process parameters for low-dose dry powder inhalers achieved by dosator technology, presenting a case study in which IMA’s capsule filler, Adapta^®, is used to fill Boehringer Ingelheim’s Spiriva^® (tiotropium) dry powder inhaler.