Fig. 5.

Importance of the knowledge sources for achievement of QbD goals rated by professionals vs. the number of tools in the literature. Comparison of the importance rating given by the industrial respondents to each of the knowledge sources in the achievement of the main QbD goals to literature, represented in bar plots ranking from 0 to 4.5. Aside each set of bars, a segmented plot shows the frequency found in the literature for specific KM tools used in the same four main QbD goals; the color key corresponds to the same classification of sources applied in the bar plots.