Today’s tablet production operations are faced with two increasingly important – but at first sight
contradictory - demands: being able to handle more potent drugs, while the overall production
costs must be reduced. At the same time, batch sizes become smaller and production planning
must allow more flexibility.

There are technologies and procedures to tackle each of the above requirements individually, but
no solution existed to answer all of these requirements simultaneously – until now. The concept
of “Exchangeable Functional (Compression) Module” – as integrated in Courtoy’s new MODUL™ rotary tablet press brings the solution.

This article describes how the ECM concept has been applied to a novel tablet press, how it can
be applied to its peripheral equipment and explores the consequences.