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Brecon betters blister packing
Nowhere in packaging are flexibility and fast changeover more necessary than in the contract-packaging arena, where multiple customers and their many SKUs are a fact of life. That’s why ease of changeover was a key machine characteristic sought by Brecon Pharmaceuticals recently when it came time to install a new line for blister packing and cartoning of tablets. This fast-growing contract packager, acquired last year by Amerisource Bergen, is located in the UK near the town of Brecon, Wales. Both thermoforming and cold-forming of foil are routinely done on this new and highly versatile blister-pack line.
October 29, 2007
Robotics/Automation
Six Sigma and pharmaceutical packaging
In pharmaceutical firms and consumer-packaged goods companies in general, packaging may be the last place in the corporation that has not been Six-Sigma'd to death. Companies have been looking for ways to squeeze time and cost out of the manufacturing process and they've finally arrived at packaging's door. In this article, Kent St. Vrain of Paxonix reports on Six Sigma benefits, economic justification, and streamlining the process of getting product more quickly to market.
April 24, 2007
Packaging/Filling
Striving for 'end-of-line' packaging solutions
San Juan's Convention Center hosted the Feb. 1-2, 2007 Interphex Puerto Rico conference, with a keynote presentation delivered by Maridalia Torres, director of the San Juan district Food and Drug Administration office. One of the event's highlights was a session focusing on Packaging End-of-Line Solutions, or PELS. It involves OEMs and controls suppliers working together to assist manufacturers of life science products.
March 13, 2007
Robotics/Automation
Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) software
* Pas-X Pharma V2.3 and Pas-X Biotech V2.2 updated software suites are designed for user-friendly operation and enhanced functionality for pharmaceutical and biotech applications
February 23, 2007
Robotics/Automation
Validation software
* Transfer Operational Qualification (TOQ) is for life-sciences firms looking to reduce the cost and challenge of software validation
January 5, 2007
Robotics/Automation
AstraZeneca boosts OEE with accumulation, buffering, and line-balancing system
AstraZeneca's post-installation line analysis showed that by adding a Hartness Dynac 6400 system to Line 4 of its Newark, DE, plant, it has significantly improved its Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).
November 17, 2006
Robotics/Automation
Intelligent servo module
Elau's PacDrive SCL-055 integral servo motor/drive for sterile environments uses an aseptic, acid- and leach-resistant stainless-steel housing with an easy-to-clean, smooth surface to prevent contamination, bacteria, and germ formation.
August 10, 2006
Robotics/Automation
Wyeth engineer offers controls technologies insights
Build machines that can share data with machines built by other OEMs and find better ways to streamline fault reporting.
August 10, 2006
Robotics/Automation
Improving pharmaceutical packaging machinery automation
Eli Lilly's Aubrey Hawkins delivered insights into using pre-validated software modules on equipment during the Packaging Automation Forum.
August 10, 2006
Robotics/Automation
Validation: Drug makers take an enlightened view
Conversations we've had lately with packaged goods manufacturers suggest that some of them are beginning to soften their insistence on a preferred packaging machinery controls architecture that they have established for themselves. Why? Because when a builder of packaging equipment settles on a controls package, it can build machinery faster and deliver it at a more attractive price. If the machine builder has to replace the controls components with what its customer wants, it can't build, deliver, or maintain equipment as efficiently.
February 10, 2006
Labeling/Printing
OEM interface for thermal-transfer coders
Research funded by the Office of Naval Research evaluates thermal insulated packaging used for temperature-sensitive goods.
December 10, 2005
Robotics/Automation
Certified controls
October 10, 2005
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