Knowledgebench

KnowledgeBench is proprietary software, in the form of an integrated new product development application suite. It has modules to support Formulation/Recipe/New Product Development Management & Reporting, Expert systems, Knowledge management, and Product Data Management/Product Lifecycle Management.

KnowledgeBench Ltd was founded in August 2003 by Jason Smith, the Chief Executive and Denis Howlett, the Chief Technical Officer and product architect.

KnowledgeBench is designed for scientists and managers involved in developing new products in markets including pharmaceuticals, food and drink, speciality chemicals, paint and oil, plastics etc. It is built using methods from the field of artificial intelligence that include rule based systems and case based reasoning.

A KnowledgeBench application consists of three parts:
• an underlying knowledgebase containing background information about ingredients, their properties, past formulations, and anything else required by the application
• a collection of rulesets to provide the functionality and decision processing
• a set of web pages to solicit input from the user and display the results and reports

KnowledgeBench is compatible with industry standard Java application server platforms, including Apache Tomcat, IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic Server, Jetty and other J2EE platforms. The web front end can be hosted by the application server or fronted by an Apache web server or Microsoft's IIS web server.

KnowledgeBench is used by companies including AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline and Wrigley.

In 2005 KnowledgeBench acquired the rights to the Formulogic Expert Systems Product from Logica. This is an expert system suite originally known as PFES (Product Formulation Expert System) which was developed by Logica under the Government sponsored Alvey Programme in 1989.

References

http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=22702&hilite

Toward intelligent decision support for pharmaceutical product developmentJournal of Pharmaceutical Innovation, Volume 1, Number 1 / September, 2006, Chunhua Zhao, Ankur Jain, Leaelaf Hailemariam, Pradeep Suresh,Pavankumar Akkisetty, Girish Joglekar, Venkat Venkatasubramanian, Gintaras V. Reklaitis, Ken Morris and Prabir Basu.

Expert Systems In The Development Of Pharmaceutical FormulationsPharmainfo.net, Tejas Thakkar

Expert Systems in Pharmaceutical Product DevelopmentEncyclopedia of Pharmaceutical Technology, Volume 19, James Swarbrick

Artificial intelligence in pharmaceutical product formulation: knowledge-based and expert systemRaymond Rowe and Ronald Roberts

An expert system for the formulation of pharmaceutical tabletsJournal of Manufacturing intelligence 1993; 55: 1040-1045 Raymond Rowe

Product formulation expert system. Intelligent software for product formulationPaul Bentley, Raymond Rowe, Ronald Roberts

Film coating formulation using an expert systemPharmaceutical Technology Europe 1998;10: 72-82. Raymond Rowe.

External links

* http://www.knowledgebench.com/index.php