Pharmaceutical Technology in Pharma Industry : COATING

A pharmaceutical dosage form development typically includes preformulation studies, analytical method development and validation, design, development, scale-up and optimization of formulation and manufacturing process, invivo bioavailability and stability studies.

Especially, designing, developing and optimizing of manufacturing process at a high quality play an essential role in pharmaceutical dosage form development process. To understand this manufacturing processes provides us rational and scientific view to solve manufacturing problems, increase our productivity and support our commercial aims.           

Design, development and optimization of pharmaceutical process and manufacturing strategies are very important for the development of a pharmaceutical dosage forms in the pharmaceutical industry. Coating is one of the oldest and important pharmaceutical process that is still practiced today.                         

This course will help you to understand film coating process with basic concepts of technical and practical applications of pharmaceutical manufacturing in the research and development phase and commercial manufacturing period.

This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

COURSE CONTENT

         FILM COATING & GENERAL INFORMATION 

• What  is film coating?

• Why do we prefer to apply film coating?

• What is the main components of film coating operations?

• What is the theory of film coating?

• How is the film coating process performed in pharmaceutical industry?

         FILM COATING & FILM COATING SOLUTION

• How is the film coating suspension prepared in pharmaceutical industry?

• What is the effective equipments for preparation of film coating solution?

• What is the important points of preparation of film coating solution?

• What is the ideal film coating concentration for film coating suspensions?

  
  

  FILM COATING & FORMULATION OF FILM COATING MATERIAL

• What is glass transition temperature? 

• What is the theory of film coating? 

• What is the importance of glass transition temperature for film coating operation?

• What is the main components of film coating material?

• Polymers and their role in formulation of film coating material 

• Plasticizers and their role in formulation of film coating material

• Colorants and their role in formulation of film coating material

• Solvents and their role in preperation of film coating suspension

  
  

  FILM COATING &  FILM COATING PROCESS

• Which equipment I have to prefer for film coating process?

• How can we decide film coating amount?

• What are the main principles of film coating process?

• What is the process steps of film coating process?

  FILM COATING & FILM COATING EQUIPMENT

• General Design of Film Coating Equipment

• Process Air Unit

• Pan Units

• Pan Units-Solid Pan / Partially Perforated Pan / Fully Perforated Pan

• Spray Gun (Spray Nozzle)

  FILM COATING & SUBSTRATE REQUIREMENTS FOR FILM COATING

• Chemical Stability

• Compatibility

• Hardness

• Friability

• Weight Variation

• Shape

• Logo design

  FILM COATING & TROUBLESHOOTING IN FILM COATING APPLICATIONS

• Troubleshooting

• Overwetting / Picking

• Spray Drying

• Tablet Attrition / Erosion

• Poor Coating Uniformity

• Loss of Logo Definition