%0 Journal Article %T Aspectos generales de la automatizaci¨®n industrial del sector farmac¨¦utico %A Vallejo %A Bibiana M %A Vallejo %A Sandra B %J Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Qu¨ªmico - Farmac¨¦uticas %D 2006 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X in this article, information about general world trends in pharmaceutical manufacturing automation intended for material processing are reviewed. nowadays, different levels in automation have been developed, which would be interesting and useful in the local pharmaceutical industry. for this reason, a general analysis about their possible development and implementation in the colombian pharmaceutical industry was done. finally, some successful automation£¿s cases proposed by several local universities are showed. %K automation %K manufacturing systems %K materials processing %K pharmaceutical product. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0034-74182006000100003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en