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Inspection
Packaging line modifications for serialization
Line serialization, while a significant investment in time and money, is less strategically taxing than sharing the data internally from each line and plant up through the enterprise, and with your trading partners.
December 27, 2013
Packaging/Filling
Automated packaging upgrades e-commerce efficiencies
Pet care products marketer/shipper reduces labor, packaging materials, and delivery costs, while increasing output speeds.
November 15, 2013
The finished, easy-open cases are aesthetically pleasing and include precisely positioned die-cut holes to view/scan internal product barcodes.
Materials
Cancer diagnostics firm automates bottle filling, capping, labeling
Dako’s compact robotic bottling system frees up vital production floor space, increases speed, and reduces labor costs, filling different bottle shapes and sizes with no mechanical setup between production runs.
September 10, 2013
The front of the AFTCATS robotic bottling system shows the main touchscreen display, with the pick-and-place loading robot shown in the window.
Materials
Cook Medical meeting global identification challenges
A nearly five-year effort helps Cook and its worldwide customers identify, track, and trace some 16,000 medical device products.
August 14, 2013
This photo shows five packs of Cook Medical products.
Materials
Printing technology helps Chinese firm meet that country's product identification requirements
Hailong Machinery Group uses thermal ink-jet technology to print high-density, high-resolution bar codes and text on primary and secondary packaging.
April 30, 2013
A preprinted pharmaceutical carton showing the GS1-128 bar code (on right, with 20 digits) required by China’s PIATS program is printed by RSI printheads using HP’s TIJ (thermal ink-jet) 2.5 cartridge technology. HP’s TIJ 2.5 can print at resolutions up to 600 dpi. RSI optimizes bar-code resolution and print-cartridge life using patent-pending Variable DPI and nozzle-flipping features. Hailong incorporated RSI’s HP-based printers into its track-and-trace system for PIATS.
Packaging/Filling
Hoffmann-La Roche AG’s line automates personalized kit packaging
Seven sub-machines package clinical trial patient kits with efficiency and inspection security, minimizing labor costs.
January 17, 2013
Top loading machine places blisters online.
Labeling/Printing
Nutritional supplement company saves money, reduces waste
NutraBio meets ever-changing labeling demands with digital label printing systems that reduce the need for label inventory and cut costs.
January 2, 2013
NutraBio bottles HCP
Labeling/Printing
FDA tracking proposal could require packaging line changes
Medical device makers would need to use automatic identification and data capture technology for marking implantable and all devices and their packaging.
December 31, 2012
Boston Scientific S-ICD
Labeling/Printing
R.I.P. for RFID?
The global market for RFID technologies is more than $6 billion a year—but healthcare comprises only a small percentage of that number. Here’s a look at RFID’s role in the healthcare packaging sector.
November 8, 2012
RFID refrigerator
Packaging/Filling
Anatomy of a high-speed pharmaceutical line installation
Contract packager Praxis Packaging Solutions’ new tablet-filling and packaging line includes an unscrambler, counter-filler, checkweigher, capper, induction sealer, retorquer, and labeler.
November 1, 2012
Praxis line
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