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36 July 2019 Tablets & Capsules T he tablet is the most popular dosage form for prescribed and over-the-counter medications. Tablets are a simple and convenient way to accurately dose active pharmaceutical ingredients and are flexible enough in their design to address many of the patient-compliance challenges cur- rently facing the pharmaceutical industry. However, to help ensure the success and acceptance of a tablet product, it's vital to study each phase of the tablet development, design, and manufacturing process in great detail. This article describes how material deformation characteristics can influence tableting performance and explains how under- standing your excipients' deformation characteristics can help you plan for successful process scale-up. How understanding material deformation characteristics can improve tableting process scale-up Robert Sedlock Natoli Engineering tableting