Tablet Design Software Eliminates Common Manufacturing Issues

I Holland is offering tablet manufacturers a tablet design software that aids the design and calculation of key tablet parameters whilst also performing stress analysis for round and shape tool tips in three easy steps.

Custom designed by experts in the I Holland design team, iTAB incorporates decades of tablet tooling design experience and knowledge to give users an extensive piece of software that can calculate basic tablet parameters and stress analysis when designing tablets.

iTAB results in 2D drawings ready for production and automatically generated design reports. The software is easy to use and requires no formal training.

Steve Osborn, Design Manager, said: “iTAB was specifically designed to be user- friendly, so anyone within tablet manufacture can use it. It features a simple three-step process. Step one involves the selection of a specific tablet profile and modification of key parameters. There is a safety zone that ensures any unfeasible designs would be flagged up so only quality tablets are produced.

“Step two runs a real-time, integrated finite element analysis (FEA) simulation against the design, giving a punch tip maximum force calculation, and finally, step three produces a report summarising the key design data that can be emailed directly to us for further analysis, design work and tooling production.

“At the click of a button, iTAB can quickly and simply help in tablet design and reduce the amount of time and money usually spent on this  process.”

By using iTAB, tablet manufacturing problems such as punch tip breakage can be eliminated from the beginning. Accurate punch tip loads calculations and 3D rotation of punch tip stress allow for instant decision making on design issues.

iTAB is Microsoft Windows-based, compatible with modern, commonplace PC specifications and operating systems and features a calculation of tablet design parameters in real time (volume, mass, density and surface area) as the user modifies key tablet dimensions (diameter, cup depth and radii, etc.). Key statistics, including volume, mass, density and surface area, are also automatically included in the final report.

I Holland Ltd, +44 115 972 6153, info@iholland.co.uk, www.iholland.co.uk.