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Automating With MES

Merck Serono is among pharma firms deploying MES for process visibility and control.
As manufacturers seek to better understand processes toward the goal of operational excellence, manufacturing execution systems (MES) have emerged as a critical tool for increasing production efficiency and compliance.
An interface between machines and people on the shop floor and enterprise resource planning systems (ERP), MES integrates plant functions as processes and results are documented electronically.
 
“Customers have less and less time to do more and more work on the shop floor, while product quality is still paramount.
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Intelsius, ATI Team with Data Logger Solution

The companies foresee growing pressure for monitored shipments.
Intelsius (www.intelsius.com) in a partnership with American Thermal Instruments (ATI; www.americanthermal.com) will include a complementary ATI LOG-IC electronic temperature data logger in every refrigerated and controlled-room-temperature shipper.
 
Customers can specify any of ATI’s range of data loggers, with the opportunity to compare their performance with alternate loggers they may have already qualified. The loggers will be integrated in Intelsius’ Orcatherm, BioTherm, and
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India Plans For Bar Codes

The country looks to protect its brands with a requirement for serialized coding on exported packaging.
Although Indian government deadlines were recently deferred for meeting a bar coding mandate, drug manufacturers in the country still have only months to implement serialization solutions.
“Because the regulation just came out in June, companies have been in a mad rush to evaluate technology and make a decision.
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Feeders and Inspection Systems Enable Enhanced Carton Design At Proteus Packaging

With it’s PacXtra program, Proteus Packaging (www.proteuspackaging.com) has built out capabilities in carton assembly and inspection.
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Finding the Right Equipment

Flexibly configured cartoners address small batch production.
As SKUs multiply and batch sizes dwindle, packaging line productivity is challenged.
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More Than Machinery

A major generic drug maker had been relying on contract support for numerous products across a wide range of therapeutic areas, including niche, high-barrier-to-entry products that have limited competition and long life cycles. Given the number of different product lines, the company decided about five years ago that it was time to bring packaging in-house. 
 
In addition to efficient machinery, the company needed U.S.-based support providing OEM tooling capabilities, services, technicians, training personnel, and more.
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Bottom Line on Compliance Packaging

As innovative patient care models are tested and put into practice, new studies show the value of compliance-prompting designs.
Packaging that promotes compliance will receive increased attention as governments and private insurers seek to ensure patient safety and reduce healthcare costs.
Studies have shown, for example, that achieving high adherence levels in typically low-compliance therapies such as diabetes, cholesterol, and high blood pressure can reduce healthcare costs by 40 to 50%.
 
Packaging can be an important part of a solution that includes caregiver support and intervention, but adherence and persistence with medications requires patient buy-in, presenters sa
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Enabling Compliant Seals

Validation should ensure consistent seal strength and package integrity.
Process controls and user-friendly features on heat sealers go a long way in supporting effective bag sealing for terminally sterilized medical devices. Yet ensuring consistent seals can be fraught with challenges. Defective and cosmetically marred seals may put product at risk for contamination and increase manufacturers’ costs.
ISO 11607 requires the heat seal process to be under total control and validated.
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Enabling Compliant Seals

Validation should ensure consistent seal strength and package integrity.
Process controls and user-friendly features on heat sealers go a long way in supporting effective bag sealing for terminally sterilized medical devices. Yet ensuring consistent seals can be fraught with challenges. Defective and cosmetically marred seals may put product at risk for contamination and increase manufacturers’ costs.
ISO 11607 requires the heat seal process to be under total control and validated.
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Striving for Production Quality

As newer inspection technology and applications are tested, serialization is driving upgrades in vision solutions.
As companies upgrade inspection and vision technology for a range of tasks, they are implementing or planning for serialization and track and trace requirements.
Providers such as Cognex, Optel Vision, and Laetus have leveraged inspection technology in offering track and trace solutions.
Cognex’s In-Sight Track and
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