The document discusses various defects that can occur during the pharmaceutical tablet coating process, including picking and sticking, bridging, twinning, peeling, erosion, mottled color, and shade variation. It provides pictures and describes the nature and potential reasons for each defect, such as over wetting, under drying, improper atomization pressure, low pan RPM, tooling design issues, inadequate drying, uneven spray rates, and improper solution preparation. Common causes include coating solution application errors, tablet and core quality issues, process parameter control problems, and equipment design flaws.