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Section: Machinery > Robotics/Automation
Robotics/Automation
Pharmaceutical industry confronts data, change, culture
The pharmaceutical culture faces growing pains of gaining maturity. For example, one company representative remarks, "We're awash in data, but have no information."
August 14, 2009
Hp 18985 Liz
Robotics/Automation
A change of course for pharmaceutical manufacturing
The FDA's Quality-by-Design initiative holds potential to transform the pharmaceutical industry's approach to drug development and manufacturing.
July 1, 2009
Hp 18963 Aw Pharma Ship
Robotics/Automation
Upgraded operating system
A serialization system helps a laboratory meet DSCSA requirements in a small footprint, handling cartons or flat blanks.
February 15, 2009
Robotics/Automation
Pack Expo online pre-show planner is ready to use
The latest developments in packaging equipment, materials, containers, and services will be on display at Pack Expo International 2008, Nov. 9 – 13 at Chicago's McCormick Place. Packaging World's online pre-show planner can help you view the event from your laptop or PC. Pharmaceutical and medical device machinery and materials will be an important part of the key packaging event. In fact, there will be a Pharmaceutical Pavilion in McCormick Place's new West Hall.
November 6, 2008
Robotics/Automation
The robots are coming
We may be OnTheEdge of a major growth spurt for robotics on North American packaging lines. That is what some, including Ben Miyares of Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI), reported at a robotics conference held over the weekend leading up to Pack Expo in Las Vegas last autumn. I think that this is great news for packagers! Robots can provide highly flexible automation options and mitigate capital risk on new lines that may be installed to support the launch of finicky new products. I'm not as confident that the news is as good for the robot manufacturers. While I would expect them to experience a portion of this growth, packaging machinery manufacturers have several options for bringing robotic functionality to end-users.
February 15, 2008
Packaging/Filling
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
Robotics/Automation
Micro variable-speed drives
Attendees of the "Medical Device Distribution Package Testing" conference at MD&M West seemed to appreciate Jan Gates' description of what medical device management wants from new packages. Those attributes include the following:
September 10, 2005
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