Today’s tablet production operations are faced with two increasingly
important – but at first sight
contradictory - demands: being able to
handle more potent drugs, while the overall production
costs must be
reduced. At the same time, batch sizes become smaller and production planning
must allow more flexibility.
There are technologies and procedures to tackle each of the above
requirements individually, but
no solution existed to answer all of these
requirements simultaneously – until now. The concept
of “Exchangeable
Functional (Compression) Module” – as integrated in Courtoy’s new MODUL™ rotary
tablet press brings the solution.
This article describes how the ECM concept has been applied to a novel
tablet press, how it can
be applied to its peripheral equipment and
explores the consequences.