Material Handling Featured Articles

  1. The Art And Science Of Pre-Picking Tablet Designs 7/30/2024

    Picking and sticking are the most common tablet defects that can reduce your product quality and performance. This makes perfecting the right pre-picking strategy essential to improving your processes.

  2. Round Tablet Compression Tooling — To Key Or Not To Key The Punches 7/30/2024

    What makes the keying in tablet compression tooling, specifically in tablet punches, so important to the tablet manufacturing processes?

  3. Head Pressure In Your Hopper: What Is It, And How Do You Mitigate It? 7/30/2024

    What is head pressure in your hopper and how does it relate to tablet press performance?

  4. Tablets And Capsules: Overcoming Similar Obstacles In Production 7/30/2024

    Explore how understanding specific USP chapters can address common tablet and capsule production challenges and ensure high-quality results in this essential pharmaceutical process.

  5. The Role Of Quality By Design In Pharmaceutical Tablet Development 7/30/2024

    Quality by Design (QbD) ensures efficiency and high standards in pharmaceutical tablet development. Explore how this proactive approach transforms manufacturing processes and enhances product quality.

  6. Bacterial Endotoxin Testing, Part 3: Calculating Endotoxin Limits & MVD 7/30/2024

    The author continues his article series on bacterial endotoxin testing by discussing depyrogenation and calculating endotoxin limits and maximum valid dilution (MVD), including those for active substances and excipients, combination products, and medical devices.

  7. Smart Softgels: Driving Innovation In Pharma 7/29/2024

    Learn about how softgels are poised to facilitate innovation in the pharmaceutical industry as well as ongoing advancements in optimizing drug bioavailability through nano formulations.

  8. Is Your Lab Ready For A LIMS Implementation? 7/25/2024

    Deploying a laboratory information management system (LIMS) can boost your quality control lab's productivity, but how are you going about it? This article shares key steps and considerations for setting up your physical lab, controlling inventory, and more.

  9. Bacterial Endotoxin Testing, Part 2: Prerequisites & Reagent Preparation 7/23/2024

    In this second article of a planned series about bacterial endotoxin testing, the author shares best practices about prerequisites and reagent preparation for a gel clot Limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL) test.

  10. The Evolution Of A CDMO 7/17/2024

    Transitioning from a product-based to a service-based organization helped a leading CDMO commit to client-centricity and operational excellence and meet the evolving needs of the pharmaceutical industry.