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Tablets & Capsules September 2018 23 T ing is unlikely to provide the best results for companies that manufacture a range of pharmaceutical or nutraceuti- cal tablets. By optimizing your tooling to suit the product being manufactured, you can minimize tableting problems such as picking, sticking, fracture, and excessive wear. The main factors to consider when optimizing your tooling are the tablet and tool design; the steel used to make the tooling; and the coating, if any, applied to the tooling. Once you have a good understanding of how these factors influence tableting performance, you can evaluate your existing tooling and your tableting processes to identify where optimization may have the most impact. Optimizing your tablet press tooling can help increase production and tool life while reducing costs and downtime. This article dis- cusses several aspects of tooling optimization and explains how to start small by optimizing the tooling for one product at a time. ablets come in many shapes and sizes, and tablet for- mulations have a range of physical characteristics and tableting properties, such as abrasiveness, corrosiveness, lubricity, and compressibility. With this in mind, it makes sense that a one-size-fits-all approach to tablet press tool- Optimizing your tablet press tooling Mike Beyl Wilson Tool International tableting