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Materials
PCI Reveals Serialization Strategy
Contract packager PCI discusses its serialization systems hierarchy and how it yields benefits both internally and for its pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical companies around the globe.
January 15, 2016
PCI’s Justin Schroeder (right), Executive Director, Marketing, Business Development & Design, and from Ray Hook, Senior Manager, Global Serialization Services.
Packaging/Filling
New technology creates new business opportunities
Sharp Packaging Solutions standardizes on tablet counting/filling and labeling equipment on bottling lines at its Allentown, PA, plant.
September 24, 2015
The Cremer CFS-622 Tablet Counter modules can be easily removed or added based on production requirements.
Labeling/Printing
On the front lines of serialization
Successful implementation requires interconnecting packaging equipment, materials, and components so they are dependent upon each other.
July 24, 2015
Seen here is a Weiler RL-420 labeler with X-3 label head and Domino laser printer.
Packaging/Filling
Digital printer ‘XAPS’ would-be counterfeiters
Digital carton printing company OTC Group helps its customers thwart counterfeiting and theft with Xerox tracking system.
July 24, 2015
XAPS shows a serial number reversed out of the grey bar in front, with an enlargement of microtext on the top flap of the carton.
Inspection
Not your grandparents’ clinical trial
Everyone from the FDA to professional associations are investing time, money, and resources into upping the stakes when it comes to clinical trials.
July 15, 2015
Sharp Clinical Services is expanding its storage and packaging facilities in the U.S.
Materials
Medical device packaging takes center stage at HealthPack
HealthPack 2015 focused on exclusive survey and package design. Meanwhile HealthPack 2016 venue is established.
May 5, 2015
HealthPack 2016 will be held March 15-17 at the Astor Crowne Plaza in New Orleans.
Labeling/Printing
Comparing UDI and DSCSA coding
Although there are differences between the medical device Unique Device Identification (UDI) regulation and the Pharmaceutical Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA), Videojet Technologies’ Tim Kearns finds many common aspects across both.
January 6, 2015
VIAL STOPPER. This image shows a continuous ink-jet code on a vial stopper.
Materials
Digital printing benefits pharmaceutical ampule labels
German pharmaceutical manufacturer discovers that digital printing of pressure-sensitive labels that go on ampules is a vast improvement over hot-foil printing.
August 7, 2014
CRISP PRINTING. The fully digital printer runs at speeds to 800/min and delivers clean, crisp printing.
Packaging/Filling
Apace Packaging sets the pace in pharmaceutical serialization implementation
Contract packager sees investment in serialization on its bottling and blister thermoform/fill/seal lines as an opportunity to gain business and a competitive edge.
July 3, 2014
BOTTLE TRACKER. As bottles travel up to the BottleTracker by conveyor, an outsert machine applies a topsert on top of the bottles. This is a folded leaflet applied to the top of each bottle that contains information related to the product.
Packaging/Filling
Machinery to take center stage at Pharma Expo in Chicago
Co-located with Pack Expo Intl., the event will showcase next-generation production line advances in automation.
June 16, 2014
Machinery to take center stage at Pharma Expo in Chicago
Labeling/Printing
When it comes to serialization, start now
A seminar held during interpack by Optel and Domino emphasizes the urgency of developing a serialization strategy now, and addresses the challenges of implementation.
May 27, 2014
A seminar held during interpack by Optel and Domino emphasizes the urgency of developing a serialization strategy now, and addresses the challenges of implementation.
Labeling/Printing
Print-and-apply labelers suit new repackaging operations
For its new repacking operations, Beiersdorf UK selects print-and-apply labelers able to print high-resolution barcodes, text, and graphics for Retail Ready Packaging.
March 26, 2014
Hp 23915 Domino M200 Print And Apply Labels At Beiersdorf Logistics
Labeling/Printing
Lessons learned: On the packaging line
Here are actual lessons learned about what actually happens in the plant and on the line, from those who have conducted live supply chain pilot tests.
January 20, 2014
Labeling/Printing
Preflighting your supply chain pilot
Once you start shipping live product as part of a pilot test, it is not easy to revert back into test mode.
January 18, 2014
Packaging/Filling
Robotic cartoning adds efficiency, subtracts labor costs
Robotic cartoning replaces manual operations, alleviating labor shortages, costs, and increasing line efficiency for contract manufacturer Pharmalab Inc.
January 3, 2014
TWO POUCHES. Two unoriented pouches are picked up by an AFA Delta 3 robot, which then places them into a loading funnel.
Labeling/Printing
How to avoid a big barcode gotcha
With mass-produced packaging, barcodes are preprinted as part of the package artwork. As such, no one has had to really worry about whether those codes will scan throughout the supply chain.
December 29, 2013
Labeling/Printing
Nine coding and markingconsiderations for serialization
While the long arm of serialization reaches deep across multiple silos in the organization, one could say it starts with the physical code applied to the package. There are several things to consider.
December 29, 2013
Packaging/Filling
Strategies for accurate aggregation
The actual electronic association of the serial numbers of individual unit packages to a case is done after an inspection system on the packaging line visually inspects individual packages (or they are manually scanned) upon going into the shipping case.
December 28, 2013
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