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