360° Inspection Station

Print monitoring, label monitoring, verification and tracking in the pharmaceutical packaging process.

PCE 360° Inspection Station is a modular all-in-one solution for quality management of cylindrical objects in the pharmaceutical industry. Various characteristics relevant to quality can be verified: Verification of imprints - such as product, batch or serial number as plain text and/or 2D code. The prevention of mix-ups within the production process can be ensured. Checking for aluminium caps, the presence of sealing plugs and that seals are intact guaranteed integrity and free of contamination of the primary packaging.

Highlights

• Applicable to vials, bottles, tubes and stable, cylindrical containers on conveyors or star wheels
• A module of the PCE Track & Trace system for collecting serialized data
• The system is operated by Pilot Line Manager software
• Prevention of product and batch mix-ups in the field of primary packaging (Bright Stock concepts)
• Registration of primary packaging within the internal supply chain
• Verification and quality control of printing on the perimeter, on covers (from top, lateral), on the bottom (from below) – adequate product guidance required
• Barcode reading (linear code and 2D-code) and plain text reading (OCV/OCR)
• Product measurement and monitoring for the presence of features (e.g. plug, label)
• Contamination control on the perimeter (e.g. on label)
• Recognition of invisible code on the perimeter and from top/below
• Easy to integrate into existing lines through retrofitting to existing conveyor, or as stand-alone station

For additional vision inspection solutions please visit also Mettler Toledo CI-Vision