On this article you will find how pharmaceutical companies can improve the efficiency of their entire product development and drug commercialisation process with the ever-rising costs of bringing a drug to market. A well-known source of bottlenecks, delays, and technical setbacks is process scale-up, where production moves from the laboratory to full-scale GMP manufacturing

Tablets are by far the most widely used pharmaceutical dosage form, followed by capsules. Tablets are cost-effective, stable, and easy-to-administer. The main advantage is that compression allows for high speed manufacturing with a very high level of quality control. As such, tablets have been popular among pharmacists since the emergence of the tablet compression industry in the mid-20^th century. Despite this long history, the industry is continually improving this dosage form to advance pat...