Requirements checklist
What to ask for when choosing software for tablet manufacturers.
A checklist built from how tablet manufacturers work, to print or save as a PDF and bring to any supplier meeting.
What the software should cover
Tick each one that matters to your business.
- Batch cards and dispensing
- Granulation and compression records
- Tooling register
- Coating and packing records
- Yield reconciliation
- Contract client orders
Roles that need their own access
Who logs in, and what each person may see or change.
- For production managers
- For compression operators
- For packing supervisors
- For quality reviewers
Reports to ask for
Ask to see each one with your own sample data.
- Batches by stage and product
- Weight, thickness and hardness trends by run
- Tooling sets and tablets made
- Yield and variance by batch
- Rejects by cause and line
- Contract orders by client and status
- Dispatches by batch number
Systems it may need to connect to
Note which ones you already run.
- Weighing scales
- Barcode and label printers
- Batch coding printers
- Accounting export
Questions for any vendor
Put these to every supplier you are comparing.
- What does the operator enter at the press?
- How does it reconcile yield?
- Can we see which tooling set ran a batch?
- Can contract clients have separate documents?
- What about line clearance?
- Is it validated?
- How do we see it before deciding?
- Can the data be exported?
Where the work usually breaks today
Circle the ones you recognise. They set the order of the project.
- Yield is reconciled after the fact
- Tooling history is thin
- In-process checks are scattered
- Contract brands multiply the paperwork
- Line clearance is verbal
Prefer to talk it through? See the tablet manufacturers page.