| PAT | Process Analytic Technology |
| FDA | U.S. Food and Drug Administration |
| ICH | International Conference on Harmonization |
| QbD | Quality by Design |
| QbC | Quality by Control |
| DoE | Design of Experiments |
| iDoE | intensified Design of Experiments |
| DoDE | Design of Dynamic Experiments |
| QTPP | Quality Target Product Profile |
| CQA | Critical Quality Attributes |
| CPP | Critical Process Parameters |
| CMA | Critical Material Attributes |
| ANOVA | Analysis of Variance |
| MPC | Model Predictive Control |
| ODEs | Ordinary Differential Equations |
| SA | Sensitivity Analysis |
| PCA | Principal Component Analysis |
| PLS | Partial Least Square |