Articles in this Issue

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  Describing the Elephant in the Room

  March 01, 2022
  As I prepared to relaunch Tablets & Capsules with my CompareNetworks colleagues, I was reminded of the ancient Indian parable of the blind men and the elephant. Each touched a different part. The man ... read more
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  Outsourcing Outlook: Oral solid dosage (OSD) forms make up a very large portion of the world’s...

  March 01, 2022
  Oral solid dosage (OSD) forms make up a very large portion of the world’s drug delivery formats, and solid dose manufacturing increasingly takes the lion’s share of global outsourcing capacity, in the... read more
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  Troubleshooting Capsule Separation: Following Five Steps to Reduce Waste and Downtime

  March 01, 2022
  Have you ever heard that less is more? While often used to describe art or architecture, the saying also works in the world of capsule filling. read more
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  Raman Spectroscopy: Multiple Techniques Can Analyze Pharmaceutical Tablets and Capsules

  March 01, 2022
  Raman spectroscopy is emerging as a powerful analytical tool for the pharmaceutical industry. Like the more common FTIR spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy is part of the vibrational spectroscopy family ... read more
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  You’ve Got Options: Choices Among Punch Heads, Barrels, and Tips—as well as in Die Shapes and...

  March 01, 2022
  The basics of rotary tablet compression tooling have stood the test of time. However, the specifications of tooling design have become more sophisticated. read more
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  Preparing for the Unpredictable: Prescriptive Maintenance Can Improve Production by Tapping...

  March 01, 2022
  Predicting operational performance is a complex task in any industry. For pharmaceutical manufacturers, the ability to keep critical assets online and provide uninterrupted operations can mean the ... read more
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  Getting into the Mix: A Q&A on Nutraceuticals

  March 01, 2022
  Nutraceuticals production straddles the interface of food and pharmaceuticals manufacturing—two markets which themselves share plenty of overlap. Pharmaceutical customers often specify higher polish ... read more
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  Co-Processed Excipients

  March 01, 2022
  In some sections of the pharmaceutical industry, there appears to be a conflict between the advantages co-processed excipients can bring and the perceived increased regulatory burden they could cause. read more
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  Packing It In: Communicating Standards and Guidelines with Suppliers Can Prevent Problems

  March 01, 2022
  Package quality disputes between suppliers and customers often start with someone in the filling plant stating “these packages aren’t as good as the ones we ran last week” without any data to support ... read more