Pharmaceutical production equipment is very much, the big classification can be divided into APIs and preparations.
Acquisition, in a certain sense like fine chemicals, chemical equipment used on most of them:
What reactor, towers, filtration, centrifugation, tanks, pipelines, etc., are there, so be sure to learn the principles of chemical engineering and equipment.
Preparation aspects, most of which are unique to pharmaceuticals, a dosage form has a production process, there is a class of equipment.
For example: tablets, capsules, injections, ointments, dispersions, tinctures, aerosols and so on. There are also traditional Chinese medicine, not to mention. These dosage forms with the equipment has a general, there are also specialized. Learn these only in school to learn an overview, to the actual work and then continue to learn.
I am here is a brief description, but I think, not only to learn the principles of chemical engineering, mechanical (pharmaceutical machinery) also have to learn, mastery of the fundamentals is more important than anything else.