Particle Coating Technology Solutions

PCTS diagnostic services provide the health of your tablet-coating processes, feasibility of planned changes, and improvements that save you time and money. Unlike other computationally intensive solutions, we create virtualization of your film-coating processes quickly and easily giving you insights and optimal solutions that meet or exceed your needs. Specialty Areas: Process modeling for • Tablet coating in pan coaters • Particulate and tablet coating in Wursters and fluid beds • Batch and continuous manufacturing • Coating efficiency • Coating uniformity • Process thermodynamics • Acceptance Value (USP<905>) Process diagnostic and optimization services • Process diagnostics • Troubleshooting • Process simulations • State of control (robustness) analysis • Scaleup and process bridging • Capacity optimization • Formulation optimization • Process Optimization Engineering design • Capital avoidance analysis • Technology selection (e.g., batch vs continuous) • Process, utilities and facility design specifications Formulation • Tablet design • Capsule design • Film coatings: • Aesthetic coating • Precision coating (drug layering) • Delayed release coating • Controlled release coating • Protective coating • Taste masking Qualifications • Process design • Process qualification • Continued process verification