Introducing PACE from Sewtec Automation – a disruptive and progressive multi-product modular automation line set to carry big developments to the pharmaceutical business.
Leveraging the facility of robotic course of automation, PACE is growing the availability chain of the long run, with the capability to drastically cut back present timescales of months to simply days.
This digitally enabled automated line delivers the manufacturing, packaging, and labelling of a number of medicine in the identical facility with full traceability and with out the chance of cross-contamination. All of it takes place on a single line in a GMP atmosphere with real-time high quality checks, leading to much less waste, threat, and value whereas maximising velocity to sufferers.
By combining modular automation with robotic course of automation, PACE permits for elevated productiveness, lowered prices and lead instances, better flexibility and complexity inside medical trials, and in the end, sooner supply of medication to sufferers. All that is achieved whereas prioritising sustainability, minimising waste, and decreasing CO2 emissions.
The system handles and processes two totally different sizes of capsule containers marked with 2D matrix codes for monitoring—60cc and 150cc, equipped in bulk type and fed in from bulk hoppers. Every hopper has a capability for 1,000 or 2,000 bottles relying on the bottle dimension. The bottles cross by bowl feeding, orientation, and singulation techniques, prepared for loading to the road individually.
Key Options Powered by Robotic Course of Automation:
- Bulk Feeding & Singulation: PACE’s bulk storage and singulation system handles and presents two sizes of pill bottles, marked with 2D matrix codes for monitoring.
- Pill/Desiccant Filling: The patented filling station design permits unbiased operation inside a single cleanroom, enabling fast drug sort changeovers, exact pill shelling out, and environment friendly packaging with bottle verification.
- Weighing: Precision weighing happens at three phases—tare weight, desiccant addition, and pill filling—whereas every bottle’s distinctive 2D code is scanned to make sure correct processing.
- Sealing & Capping: Induction sealing ensures every bottle is individually sealed, checked, and capped with exact torque from a bulk feeding system whereas sealing parameters and cap torque values are digitally recorded for every bottle.
- Labelling: Bottles enter the module for 2D code verification and label retrieval, the place labels are printed, scanned for accuracy, and utilized provided that appropriate, supporting single-panel and wrap-around labels whereas stopping waste.
- Storage & Dispatch: Labeled bottles are positioned into trays for dispatch or storage, with verified course of information enabling fast QP evaluate and sooner distribution.
“We’re really excited about PACE here at Sewtec and the innovation and advancements it’s set to bring to the pharmaceutical industry in terms of clinical trials,” says Sewtec’s Enterprise Supervisor Lee Manning. “Clinical trials need to be carefully controlled at every stage. This inevitably makes them expensive and time-consuming to run. One of the biggest issues facing pharmaceutical manufacturers is maintaining a cleanroom environment during packing—and this is exactly what our patented PACE technology does.”
