The Tableting Specification Manual, 6th edition
covers every facet of tablet manufacturing:
tooling design, tablet design, tooling steels,
maximum compression forces, and tooling
maintenance. This book can help readers increase
the quality and production rate of tablets,
extend tooling life, prevent damage to presses,
and avoid costly work stoppages.
Why are tooling specifications important to the
tablet manufacturing industry? Mergers and
acquisitions in the last two decades have
increased the number of mulitnational
pharmaceutical companies. Standardized tooling
specifications allow a company´s various
manufacturing sites to reduce tooling inventory
by sharing tooling - even if tablet presses were
purchased from different press manufacturers.
Standardized tooling simplifies every
pharmaceutical company´s procedures for purchase,
inspection, and maintenance of tooling. Tooling
manufacturers benefit from reduced manufacturing
costs and faster order fulfillment. And tablet
press manufacturers benefit from more efficient
press performance.
New features:
- Announcement of impending specification change
of barrel diameter of B and D lower punches to
match diameter of upper punch barrels. Revised
specification will be implemented January 2005
- Reference configuration for dust cup relief
- Comprehensive listing of new press models (in
appropriate tooling interchangeability table)
- Expanded discussion of tool steels, including a
comparison of their thoughness and wear
resistance characteristics
- Revised punch tip compression forces that are
based on finite element analyses of S7 and S1
steels
- Method for calculating punch tip compression
forces for flat-faced radius-edged (F.F.R.E.)
tooling