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| ENGINEERING EXCELLENCE |
| AUTOMATION |
| Case Studies |
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Automation improves safety and
productivity, provides consistency in
quality, results in shorter turnaround
times and reduces time to market,
so that our medicines are available
wherever and whenever needed. |
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Packing Efficiency
and Quality |
| CHALLENGE |
To maximise efficiency, product safety and
data integrity in the manual bottle and blister
packing lines. |
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| ACTION |
We automated the bottle and blister
packing lines to successfully eliminate
manual operations and successfully
completed mechanisation of the
secondary packing lines linked to
finished goods warehouse. The
automation also included an automatic
storage and retrieval system (ASRS),
a first of its kind in the pharma industry. |
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| OUTCOME |
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| Manual operations |
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Automated |
| Collation of bottles / blister bundles |
| Erection of inner carton box |
| Transfer of bottles / bundles involved picking up and placing into cartons |
| Closing, taping, labelling & weighing of inner cartons |
| Closing, taping, weighing and transfer of outer cartons to finished goods warehouse |
| Retrieval of finished goods and transfer to bay area for dispatch |
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| Manual operations minimised - 30 to 40% savings in man-hours as compared to past practice |
| Better compliance to cGMP standards |
| Improved product safety and quality |
| Error proof serialisation and aggregation for packing lines |
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