Troubleshooting Guide
Your troubleshooting guide to increasing process efficiency and improving product quality.
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Peeling
The coating peels away from the tablet surface.
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Breakage
Tablets are broken during the coating run.
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Logo Bridging
Coating spans across the tablet logo or breakline, making the logo unreadable or breakline not clearly visible.
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Edge Erosion
The edges of the tablets are worn away or damaged during the coating run.
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Spray Drying (logo filling)
Dried coating material creates a rough, uneven surface on the tablet and/or fills the logo or breakline, making the logo unreadable.
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Surface Erosion
The tablet surfaces are worn away or damaged during the coating run.
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Tablet-To-Tablet Color Variation
The color of coated tablets is uneven
within the batch.
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Twinning
Two or more tablets are stuck together.
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Orange Peel Roughness
The entire surface of the coated tablets appears rough, like the surface of an orange.
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Film Cracking
The coating is cracked, fractured or broken.
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Color Variation
The color of individual tablets is uneven or non-uniform.
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Picking and Sticking
The tablets show coating material pulled from the tablet surface and/or coating material deposited on the surface.
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