What are the problems with the cartoning machine in the pharmaceutical industry?

The contradiction between the cost of the drug packaging material and the requirements of the cartoning machine on the carton. In recent years, the country has repeatedly reduced the price of drugs and the competition in the pharmaceutical market, so that the pharmaceutical companies pay more attention to the production cost and reduce the various links of the finished drug products. In the middle, the cost of the carton as the middle package has attracted much attention. Even if a carton can save 0.5 points, it is also a considerable cost for mass production. If the manual boxing operation is used, the quality of the carton is lower and the size is relatively compact. These two features can save at least 0.01-0.02 yuan for one carton. However, once the cartoner is used, higher requirements are imposed on the carton and the manual, and the carton size is larger than the manual carton.

When using the cartoning machine, the carton and the manual are required to be in the "Multi-Function Cartoning Machine" standard (JB/T10640-2006) 4.2.2.1. The paper requirements for the carton and manual used in the cartoning machine should meet the requirements of Table 2. Provisions:

Carton Size Requirements When Produced with a Cartoning Machine Generally speaking, carton size is considered to be cost effective, that is, the smaller the size, the more compact the better. In the manual packaging process, people's smart hands can put almost any product into the box, and the size of the carton is small. However, when using the cartoner, consider the tolerances of the carton and the product. In order to smoothly insert the inner bag into the box, the inner size of the carton and the inner bag should have a large interference fit, especially a plurality of inner wraps (blister plate plus instructions, oral liquid plus straw, etc.) are simultaneously inserted into the box. The instructions are usually "topped" into the carton together with the contents, so that the U-shape in the box may not be equal in length at both ends, so a large margin is considered in the length of the carton. For the same reason, the thickness of the manual takes up space and the height of the carton also leaves room. The usual experience can be to refer to the dimensions of Table 3 to design the size of the carton.

The contradiction between the reduction of the cost of the carton and the reduction of the production cost after the cartoning machine is solved. The contradiction between the reduction of the cost of the carton and the reduction of the production cost after the cartoning machine is to rely on the coordination and consideration of both the manufacturer and the user. . First of all, the users of the pharmaceutical factory often only see the increase in the cost of each carton in front of the eyes, and do not comprehensively consider the cost of reducing the labor after using the cartoning machine; secondly, the cartoning machine is produced due to the manufacturing precision of the device or Some technical difficulties have not been fundamentally solved, so that the quality and size of the carton have special requirements, which also requires the manufacturer to dig potential to improve, even if the carton quality drops 10g / m2 makes sense.

The actual productivity and qualification rate of the cartoning machine hinder the actual productivity of the domestic carton application cartoning machine. Now it is analyzed by an old brand cartoning machine factory in Shanghai. The model is the mapping and imitation of the Swedish Nordon company. The speed is 120 boxes / min (max), but the normal operating rate can only be 80 boxes / min; then analyze a Shanghai company a speed of 180 boxes / min (max) of the cartoning machine, the actual operating capacity is only 130 Box / min. The data surveys listed indirectly reflect poor production stability, both for the machine itself and for the quality of the mechanism carton.

The pass rate of the medicinal cartoning machine is based on (JB/T10640-2006) standard 6.4, and the packing yield rate is sub-sampling, and 100 pieces are continuously extracted each time.笫 Once is to visually check the appearance of the package, the package is damaged as a non-conforming product; 笫 three times is to check the qualified products, the inner packaging materials are damaged, less loaded and missing are non-conforming products. The packing yield rate is calculated by the sum of the second non-conforming products, and the packing yield rate is not less than 98%.

For the pass rate of 98%, this indicator is not what the pharmaceutical company hopes, and its index is slightly lower. For a cartoning machine with an actual production speed of 150 boxes/min, the number of unqualified boxes per class is 1,440. For these unqualified boxes, one person/class is also required to be processed. The box is reloaded and the cartons are wasted. Compared with the manual box, 98% of the boxing machine qualification rate is slightly inferior.

Improving the actual productivity and yield of the cartoning machine is the premise of the pharmaceutical factory application. Through the above analysis of the actual productivity and yield of the cartoning machine, we see the responsibility of the cartoning machine manufacturer and the box making factory, although these years The quality of the two aspects is constantly improving, but it is still far from meeting the expectations of pharmaceutical users. One problem that has to be asked here is the quality of the box. If the quality of the domestic mechanism box is not good, even if it is a good imported cartoning machine, it will not help. Judging from the data currently available, foreign cartoning machines are eating “roughage”, while domestically produced machines have slightly better compatibility with carton.

The limitations of the cartoning machine on the contents of the carton hinder its popularity. According to the author's research on the cartoning machine for many years, the inside of the cartoning machine is small in size, soft (such as plaster patch), and several inner packaging materials. The technical difficulty of the box is high. However, the current status of most cartoning machines in China is only suitable for the single type and the limited shape of the inner packaging. The requirements for packaging in the standard (JB/T10640-2006) 4.2.2.2 are shown in Table 4.

(1) In the case of the ointment tube installed in the cartoning machine, the inner package tubular specification can only be in the range of Φ16mm~Φ32mm, and generally less than the Φ16mm specification, it cannot operate normally. For example, the production speed of a company's cartoning machine is 50-100 boxes/min. Although the applicable range of the inner packaging specification is Φ13mm~Φ35mm, when it is Φ13mm inner packaging specification, its use speed can only be 50 boxes/min. When it is lower than the Φ13mm specification, it is impossible to pack the box. This is because the too small specification is pushed into the paper tray together with the hose and it is difficult to center the box to cause a "broken box".

(2) The contents of the general cartoning machine can only be adapted to hard articles. When encountering soft materials such as granule soft bags and plaster patches, the cartoning machine cannot be packed, and it is gratifying that it has been produced in China. The factory can make a cartoning machine that is similar to the soft bag. At the same time, the special nature of the soft traits determines that the speed can not be too fast, which is also necessary to tackle the problem.

(3) In addition to the instructions, the cartoning machine is generally only suitable for the packing of single-packages, but this type of cartoning is far from meeting the needs of diversification of modern pharmaceutical production, although there are now a few manufacturers compounding different varieties. The packaging has a solution and has been successful. However, this type of cartoning machine is only 3-5 in China.

The quality problem of the domestic cartoning machine is the classic machine of the packaging machine. Many of its actuators are inseparable from the exquisite mechanical movement. If there are quality problems in the four aspects of manufacturing, design, assembly and configuration of the machine, Will cause the machine to run unstable.

(1) Manufacturing quality. In a sense, the cartoning machine zui is a complex machine that contains machine, electricity, gas, light and other technologies, and eats "fine grain" from the process of execution. The current overall processing level of the pharmaceutical equipment industry is still in the 1970s, and it is difficult to process high-precision parts. The usual manufacturing techniques will accumulate assembly errors, and there will be implementation errors, which will make such equipments at high speed. The instability and the rejection rate are too high.

(2) Design quality. In the past few years, the research and development of the cartoning machine has remained at the stage of mapping and imitation. It has not yet risen to the rational research of key institutions. The original error of mapping does not reflect the “stability” tendency of the movement at low speed. There is an inconsistency between operating agencies and "stability". These reflect the difference between the domestic cartoning machine and the imported products. The key to solving the problem is the theoretical secondary design.

(3) Assembly quality. There are often many adjustable structures in the cartoning machine, and the reasonable positioning of the manual manual debugging is another key to the success of the cartoning machine. At present, the level of commissioning technicians in the pharmaceutical equipment industry is difficult to compare with other industries, and there are few people who have the qualifications of technicians. From a certain point of view, no matter how good the design, if there is no good assembly and debugging, the cartoning machine can only succeed half.

(4) Configuration quality, the operation synchronization and detection control of modern cartoning machines are all dependent on control components such as electricity, gas and light. The quality of control components determines the accuracy of control, and different configurations will present a different kind of difference. "The situation." In the configuration, high-quality, stable operation, high positioning accuracy of servo motor or stepper motor drive, and the use of advanced, reliable sensor, encoder, motor three-in-one servo drive, it is different from the general configuration.

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