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Softgel capsules are widely used dosage forms in the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and cosmetic industries due to their ability to encapsulate liquids, for better absorption of the active ingredient. However, despite all the quality control measures,
Automated inspection of pharmaceutical products is performed with inspection machines. Because these machines and technologies are rapidly changing and evolving, there are many fundamentally different approaches
The concept of Industry 4.0 is not new to the modern manufacturing environment and literature. It has been around since its introduction by the German government in 2006 as its high-tech strategy vision of the
Visual inspection is about finding defective products and removing them from the production process. We can perform visual inspection manually or automatically with camera systems. Many companies
Capsules are the second most frequently used drug delivery dosage form, right after the tablets. Due to their high flexibility in terms of usability and filling material, they are popular in pharmaceutical as well
Artificial intelligence (AI) has brought many advances in different fields, such as speech recognition, image understanding, robotics, and autonomous vehicles, tackling problems problems for which the general belief was
Buying equipment does not also give you permission to use it in a pharmaceutical environment; qualification and validation are still in your way. Their primary goal is not to prevent you from using your equipment
I was still in research and development when a customer came to us with this special pharmaceutical capsule. Very special. I will not go into detail why the capsule was so special and difficult, but
The risk of person-to-person viral transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic is especially relevant in manual, labour intensive and invasive processes such as packaging, labelling
Even today, we still often compare machines to humans. The greatest contribution of machine vision compared to human vision is undoubtedly the reliability, repeatability and quality of the inspection. What does that really mean? Let’s
When a label on a bottle says “100 tablets”, we assume there are 100 tablets inside, don’t we? Not 99 or 101, but exactly 100. To be more precise, it is expected that the bottle
Tablets are the most widespread form of oral medication. Despite the fact that in recent years we have seen important improvements in both tablet production machinery and quality control systems, the modern tablet production process
Sensum d.o.o. transforms what used to be a manual, mundane job with efficient, precise innovation. Headquartered in Slovenia’s capital, Sensum, now entering its 20th year, is one of the premiere developers and manufacturers of automatic
The pharmaceutical companies are pushing their manufacturing capabilities and throughput to the limits, however are not allowed to sacrifice quality, because the
SPINE FIBO is the first machine in the world that combines 100% visual inspection and sorting with counting and bottle filling. In short, it is the first machine to visually inspect all surfaces of each
This article provides a brief and objective overview on how to choose the optimal inspection equipment by first, carefully considering all of the costs, risks and performances, which define your return on investment, second, having
Optimisation of processes is one of the key activities in pharmaceutical R&D. The goal of process optimisation is to reduce the cost of production by saving time and material and to increase the quality of
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Tablets are the most widespread form of oral medication. Despite the fact that in recent years we have
Even today, we still often compare machines to humans. The greatest contribution of machine vision compared to human
Optimisation of processes is one of the key activities in pharmaceutical R&D. The goal of process optimisation is
