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Global Control Preferences Color New Serialization/Aggregation Lines

OEM APPLICATION NOTE: MGS focuses on small-footprint machinery that interconnects to other equipment on pharmaceutical lines and allows a single point of functionality.

MGS’s PV-600 carton inspection machine was unveiled in the U.S. at last March’s PACK EXPO East event.
MGS’s PV-600 carton inspection machine was unveiled in the U.S. at last March’s PACK EXPO East event.

Earlier this year, MGS Machine, via its European partnership with INEL, introduced a line of pharmaceutical line-level serialization and aggregation equipment to the U.S. market designed to enable product manufacturers and contract packagers to comply with fast-approaching regulatory requirements pertaining to track-and-trace initiatives.

The MGS line includes carton inspection machines, aggregation units and software. All carton inspection units incorporate either inkjet or laser printing, as well as vision systems. Some units can be equipped with tamper-evident labeling and/or checkweighing equipment.

Customers requiring equipment that can function within a small footprint continue to influence MGS machinery development and design. MGS President and CEO Richard A. Bahr says, “One of the hallmarks for MGS is getting a lot done in a little space, especially in the lifescience market where space is at a premium.”

Controls and automation systems play a role in MGS’s space-economical approach. Bahr explains, “Our HMI is the single point of contact for both machine control and for the serialization software. There’s no need for two or three monitors, which can be confusing, waste time and take up unneeded space. We have all functions consolidated into our touchscreen, including recipe setup for new products requiring print, vision, labeling, checkweighing, or all of the above.”

He says by using PC-based HMIs, MGS machinery can connect to other OEM equipment on the packaging line, such as printers and cameras. That permits control of all functions from a single touchscreen. “Many printer and vision camera manufacturers now provide OEM interfaces so that the control panel for their hardware can be emulated on a PC,” he says. “As such, now that PCs are readily available as HMIs, we bring the two together seamlessly.”

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