7 exhibitors showed their equipment on camera, followed by moderated live Q&A with the engineers who built it.
In this presentation, we will introduce our latest solutions, in equipment and services, to demonstrate how we help medicines reach markets faster by improving efficiency, flexibility, and reliability, from lab to production.
Direct filling of pure active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) into capsules can significantly shorten capsule development, and manufacturing processes as well, by avoiding complex formulation and blending steps. As a result, pharmaceutical companies can accelerate product development and achieve earlier market entry.
Pharmaceutical labeling is more than simply applying a label. It is a critical control point for product quality, patient safety, and production reliability. This presentation explores common labeling risks, technologies used to control them, and how selecting the right labeling platform and engaging labeling experts early can reduce project and validation risk.
Discover how single-use containment solutions are transforming high-potency OSD manufacturing by improving containment performance, accelerating scale-up, and lowering total cost of ownership. This session highlights the advantages of DoverPac® and Flexible Enclosures in supporting safe, efficient, and flexible pharmaceutical production.
Having a unique tablet for your product is a critical component of consumer health to prevent medication errors. This presentation addresses optimization techniques in relation to font, scale, color, shadow definition, engraving details, pre-picking, and film coating.
Discover QUALIS-Pro, an innovative solution that combines tablet visual inspection and UV laser printing in a single system. Deliver added value through anti-counterfeiting measures, enhanced brand recognition, and improved product visibility.
Every manufacturing operation is unique and dynamic, and off-the-shelf and one-time digitalization efforts fall short in GxP environments. Learn how built-in GxP capabilities (electronic signatures, audit trails, automatic attributability, review by exception) and a composable platform support eBR, logbooks, line clearance, and lab operations.
20 questions put to the presenters during the live session, answered on air or in writing afterwards.
As a slug. Everything is mixed on the screw, then tightly packed and transported directly to the tablet press, which avoids powder segregation on the way.
In Germany, at the company's headquarters, where all parts are manufactured.
Powder flow, because every ingredient is fed individually. Most excipients are now designed with continuous manufacturing in mind, which leaves the API as the variable to solve. Once that is characterized, the process gives both higher productivity and tighter control than batch.
The platform is designed primarily for pharmaceutical applications, but suitability always comes down to the product. If the powder can be handled by the chosen dosing technology, botanical products can be evaluated too. The starting point is always characterization rather than machine selection: customers send placebo material, trials run in the clean rooms, and the discussion follows from the results.
The machine monitors capsule closing and checks that the cap is present. Defective capsules are rejected individually, under full containment.
Yes. Vacuum inside the drum helps fill the cavities with powder.
Thermal transfer is the most common, and more pharmaceutical customers are moving to laser. HERMA works with the major manufacturers of both, including Videojet, Domino, Keyence, and Markem-Imaje. An existing site standard can be integrated.
Cognex and Keyence for straightforward applications. For serialization, partners include Optel and SEA Vision.
A dedicated phone line with direct access to a technician, escalating to a video call and then to an on-site visit if needed. Spare parts are stocked in New Jersey for fast delivery.
Most of it is configured rather than off the shelf, because customers want something that fits their specific line. The three-isolator chain is the far end of that range. Plenty of customers want a standard unit in a couple of weeks instead. Adjusting sizes and adding ports is routine.
Both, depending on which side you are on. The punch face carries a raised logo, so tooling designers say embossing. On the finished tablet the logo is recessed, so for a pharma company it is debossing.
Between one-third and one-half of the tablet's width or diameter. On a 10 mm round tablet the logo should be around 5 mm. Smaller tablets need a proportionally larger logo to stay legible. Bigger performs better for both legibility and defect prevention, up to the point where the depth starts causing picking problems.
Four, in practice. It complicates film coating, it reduces the punch tip's force rating, it introduces the risk of picking during manufacturing, and it makes tooling more sensitive to wear, which shortens effective tool life.
Yes. It handles a range of shapes and is not limited to round tablets.
Yes. It can be purchased as a standalone UV laser printer or as a standalone inspection system, and upgraded to the combined machine later.
400,000 tablets per hour on a 7 mm tablet.
Engineers are based in North America and provide service and support as needed.
Get out of your own way. The industry is risk-averse for good reasons, and the reflex that any change means full revalidation is what keeps projects stuck. That assumption no longer holds.
The platform is validated once, with the documentation supplied, and the FDA's current position lets a company accept that work rather than repeat it. Deploying an individual solution then becomes a confirmation that it is fit for purpose, handled through SOP approval, not a fresh validation effort.
Ask your operators what the most frustrating part of their day is. Logbooks are usually the right first target: the process is simple and repeatable, the QA review burden disappears immediately, and operators stop signing their name dozens of times a shift.
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