Pharmaceutical Finishing and Packaging Systems (PME/ME/CHE628)

Understand finishing and packaging systems in the pharmaceutical and health-related industries. Explore unit operations, such as blending, granulating, compressing, branding, and coating for capsules and tablets. Learn about packaging equipment for tablet and capsule counting, capping, security sealing, banding, labeling, cartoning, and blister packing. Master the use of design tools for selection, specification, line layout, and computer simulation. Become expert at project-based design for typical packaging of either solid-dose or liquid products. Practice CAD and computer simulation techniques for projects requiring analysis of material flow, space constraints, operator needs, and equipment selection. Learn how to document equipment specifications, capital expenditures, purchases, test plans, and validation requirements.