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Written by Svante Wold, Umetrics & Umea University   
The year 2003 has passed amazingly fast - I feel it was yesterday that I was struggling with last years New Year editorial. But actually the world has moved one year forward, and we now write January 2004. Chemometrics has had another good year with exciting and enjoyable conferences at, among others, Åland and Lisbon, displaying improved methodology, and interesting applications. Chemometrics is essential in many areas, and recently pharmaceutical production has become most interesting as an application area for both design of experiments and multivariate analysis. The Food and Drug administration of USA (FDA) has, through its PAT initiative (Process Analytical Technology), pointed to potential savings in production costs resulting from getting immediate analytical results from analytical instrumentation sitting on-line, in-line, or at-line in the manufacturing process. This can drastically reduce waiting time between process steps, and between the appearance of the final product and its shipping off to customers. Also, "on-line quality control" by means of on-line sensor arrays and spectrometers provides "early fault detection" to borrow a phrase from semiconductor manufacturing using similar analytical technology for the same purposes.
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