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10 April 2019 Tablets & Capsules T o succeed in today's demanding pharmaceutical manu- facturing environment, a tablet coating process must be as efficient as possible. This means that each step or aspect of the coating process must be optimized to suit the requirements of the specific product being coated, including how the tablets are fed into and discharged from the coater and how the coater is cleaned between batches or products. Optimizing each of these steps will minimize process time and ensure high-quality coated tablets despite variations in batch size or the depth of the tablet bed in the coating drum. Pharmaceutical manufacturers face high demands for both cost efficiency and flexibility. This article discusses ways modern production coating equipment addresses these demands without sacrificing coating quality, including speeding up tablet dis- charge, easily adapting to process changes, and providing automated, effective cleaning. Improving cost efficiency and flexibility in tablet coating processes Torsten Meinel-Dirumdam Lödige tablet coating