Mark Hilhorst, CEO of Jekson Vision (a global provider of vision inspection and track & trace solutions), provides insight into the stringent quality checks needed that are crucial to improve patient safety in the pharma market, and how automation solutions can help with this, while meeting growing market demand.
Key insights:
- Tablets can get damaged in handling and transit and so require stringent quality checks prior to packaging - most imperfections are not picked up by the human eye.
- Replacing manual labour methods, automated vision machines can absorb the tiniest details of a product’s make up, which they can then select and reject anything out of the standard.
- Depending on the speed of the operation and throughput, it is possible to build a vision system into a production line to feed into the packaging station, or into a hopper.
Keeping up with drug development for an ageing UK population and new diseases, particularly zoonotics, is challenging for the pharma industry. Companies need high quality, reliable sorting solutions to avoid bottlenecks in the manufacturing process. Tablets can get damaged in handling and transit and so they require stringent quality checks prior to packaging.