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Tablet Coating
Course Description:

This Training Course is designed to provide a basic knowledge of a pharmaceutical coating operation, equipment type & function, and advanced application training with hands on experience for each participant.

This one or two day in house program will provide the participant with the basic knowledge needed to understand the fundamentals of film coating, equipment, application and trouble shooting. We will detail step by step machine inspection, loading, preheating the product bed, initial spray rates, process parameters and trouble shooting techniques.

Who Should Attend:
For the new employee the course provides machine identification, nomenclature and general operational parameters. For the experienced employee the course reassures them of proper procedure, machine operation and dispels many myths. This course is ideal for Managers, Quality Teams, R&D, Technical Services, Supervisors, Leads and Operators.

Certificates:

Each participant will receive a "Certificate of Completion".


Some of our Pharmaceutical Customers: (References are available)
  • AAI
  • Aventis
  • Basf
  • Catalytica
  • Ciba Consumer
  • Eon
  • Glaxo
  • Lilly
  • Novopharm
  • Novartis
  • Roxane
  • Watson
  • Wyeth - Ayerst
  • Yamanuchi

Example Agenda:

DAY ONE (8:30am - 4:00pm)

  • What one sees in the coating area
  • Different coating pans
  • Pan capacities, when is pan to empty or too full?
  • The coating equation and what goes wrong with the equation shifts
  • Coating defects and the link to the root causes
  • Solution Preparation
  • Gun Geometry
  • Pan Pressure
  • Total Air Volume
  • Inlet and Outlet air Temperatures
  • Gun Placement, Calibration
  • Problem Solving
  • On the job training - coating a batch

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