Articles written exclusively for our web site:

• The Manufacturing Process
  This program provides the basic knowledge needed to understand manufacturing practices, common equipment used, and provides a thorough explanation of what it takes to make a quality product. (Article is in Adobe PDF Format)

• Tablet Pro
  Improving manufacturing skills within a company is critical to the success and key to continuous quality improvement. The methodology, documentation and mindset required to meet the needs of our changing industry. (Article is in Adobe PDF Format)

• Manufacturing Nutritional Supplements
  This program was created to help companies understand the manufacturing environment needed to make tablets and capsules and to properly meet the new requirements of a rapidly changing industry. (Article is in Adobe PDF Format)

Articles written by Michael D. Tousey

• Prevention is the best cure for Tablet Defects
  Prevention is the best cure for Tablet Defects.  A hands-on tabletting consultant offers advice to tablet press operators and their supervisors. (Article is in Adobe PDF Format)
  

• Relying on Tablet Press Technicians
  Many Companies limit the adjustments that technicians can make to the tablet press during a production run, even though such adjustments are a normal part of tabletting.  This article discusses what adjustments may be necessary and encourages manufacturing managers to support their tablet technicians. (Article is in Adobe PDF Format)
  
  
• Tablet Coating Basics
  After making a good tablet, you must often coat it. The coating can have several functions. It can strengthen the tablet, control its release, improve its taste, color it, make it easier to handle and package, and protect it from moisture. This article reviews the basics of tablet coating and describes common tablet coating defects. (Article is in Adobe PDF Format)
  
  
• Preventing and Fixing Weight and Hardness Defects: Strategies for production personnel
  This article focuses on the possible causes of variations in tablet weight and tablet hardness and offers advice on preventing and fixing the source of the problems. It also discusses the problems of formulations with too many fines. (Article is in Adobe PDF Format)
  
  
• Tablet Press Operation: Sticking and picking: Some causes and remedies
  Sticking occurs when granules attach themselves to the faces of tablet press punches. Picking is a more specific term that describes product sticking only within the letters, logos, or designs on the punch faces. This article explains the causes of sticking and picking and describes the steps you can take to resolve both problems. (Article is in Adobe PDF Format)
  
  
• Optimal Tablet Press Operation: Machine Versus Granulation
  To achieve the maximum performance from a tablet press run, operators must learn to distinguish between machine-related issues and granulation-related issues. (Article is in Adobe PDF Format)
  
  
• The Granulation Process 101: Basic Technologies for Tablet Making
  The author offers a primer for choosing the correct granulation process to improve yields, reduce tablet defects, and enhance productivity. (Article is in Adobe PDF Format)
  
  
• Tablet design, quality affect coating quality
  The near-total replacement of organic solvents with water in tablet coating solutions is one of the biggest changes to the tablet coating process in the last two decades. While the switch lowered costs and improved safety, it made the process less forgiving and thus increased the need to tightly control solution delivery and process temperature... (Article is in Adobe PDF Format)
  
  
• Managing Downtime
  How long does it take to clean a tablet press and ready it for the next production run? It’s a question tablet
  press manufacturers get all the time... (Article is in Adobe PDF Format)

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