720 Bottles/minute - 100 tablets/capsules/gels per bottle
The FilleRx® system is a packaging machine developed to inspect 100% of all products, accurately count, and pack tablets, capsules, caplets, and gels in bottles at a rate of 720 bottles per minute with 100 counts per bottle. It delivers the product to two highly synchronized parallel lanes of bottles, and ensures that the unwanted bottles are diverted to either a quarantined or a rejected location.
The entire FilleRx® machine is uniquely equipped with highly accurate servo-motors and reliable sensors tracking every move of the machine mechanisms and products.
The FilleRx® system houses 72 slats. Each slat may accommodate single or double cavity arrangements and contains 80 cavities, divided into 20 sections. Each section handles only 4 cavities.
A single bottle is precisely held beneath each section.
A special compartment carrying the proprietary InspectRx® system is fitted above the slat domain. Also, the InspectRx® vision compartment is equipped with very high speed multiple color camera systems. Each InspectRx® camera possesses the ability to obtain product metrological measurements in microns, and identify products in every color and configurations. Each InspectRx® camera is configured so that there is a 100% inspection of all products and each product is accurately counted, and there is assurance that no foreign product or object ever enters the bottle. Similarly, no bottle will ever contain less than 100% of the predetermined count and is free from debris, broken product, and any unwanted objects.
The InspectRx® Vision System is Located above the Slats
The cluster of InspectRx® cameras continuously inspects The FilleRx® slats. Each camera is dedicated to a specific number of cavities. The proprietary algorithms are highly synchronized to correlate between the inspected products in cavities and their corresponding dedicated bottle receiving the falling products. All product errors, as detected by each InspectRx® camera within the inspected cavities , are carefully documented, classified, recorded, and then tracked to the bottle, which will receive the product with the unwanted object. Then each bottle containing an unwanted object is rejected and directed to a quarantined location for further discrimination. However, if a foreign object is detected at the slat level, the entire machine will shut down instantly. An intensive auditing will begin, until the foreign object is removed, and the reasons for the mix up will be carefully examined to determine the root cause of the fatal-error.
Each InspectRx® camera will display its data to the operator on the monitor screen. It will display the exact slat, the exact section of the slat, and the exact cavity within each section of the slat, with the rejected product resting in the cavity. The images are stored in designated peripheral equipment.
A money back guarantee ..!
The technologies of the FilleRx® system make it easy to provide a 100% money back guarantee to purchasers. This insures the end users safety, as well as providing complete compliance with federal regulators. The user interface is based on simple but highly robust touch screen applications, which control the entire operation.
Once the appropriate password is entered, the interactive dialogue will lead an unfamiliar operator to select the correct choice from a drop down menu that contains an unlimited number of correlated programs and routines for an unlimited number of products.
The self taught tools of “Neural Network Analysis,” and “Fast Fourier Transformations” along with several other mathematical tools coupled with several servomotors driving the host of cameras, Figure , and their carrying mechanisms will automatically select the optimum positions and angles to view each single product while exiting the corresponding slat cavities.
This procedure will internally program any new and unfamiliar product that has not been stored earlier during the development. Therefore, the high cost of programming a new product, and the lead time to debug the routines have shrunk to a mere several seconds. The programming of a new product is totally unmanned as it employs the InspectRx® proprietary software routines.
The FilleRx® system requests the operator, supervisor, or administrator to enter the appropriate tolerance of various dimensions, colors, type of flaws, the size of flaws, and any other conditions vital to cause the product to be accepted or rejected, as in the case of the Pfizer’s Celebrex™ product. In this instance, a check is necessary to determine the presence of a single strip or a double strip that is printed on each capsule, as well as the color of the strip signifying the difference between the 100mg from the 200mg capsules. Once, the responses are completed the FilleRx® system automatically stores the data, and then incorporates the new routine using the existing drop down menu.
One of FilleRx® Servo Motors Automatically Diverts Products to Fall into either Front or Back Row of Bottles During the filling Operation Enabling the System to Continuously Run at the Same Speed and without Slowing Down to Sopping the Operation
FilleRx® packaging - InspectRx® vision
The FilleRx® and the InspectRx® systems can work independently as stand alone separate systems or they can work in tandem and be dependent on each other. Both systems are agile and enjoy substantial flexibilities. The routines provided by the FilleRx® system are equipped with a simple method of activating or deactivating the InspectRx® system - by the press of a button.
Depending on customer requirements and market demands, the FilleRx® - InspectRx® systems can be easily reconfigured. The FilleRx® system can be equipped with various slat arrangements depending on the product size and the production volume needed. It will take less than 20 minutes to change from the single cavity to double cavity slat arrangements. The required speed of any production can be changed at any instant by the touch of a button on the monitor touch-screen.
FilleRx® ease of operation
A new program can be programmed by simply drawing a rectangle around the field of interest and then click "Set-up." The FilleRx® is automatically programmed.
It is anticipated that an inexperienced worker can change or install 72 slats within 20 minutes on the FilleRx® system. It is further anticipated that same inexperienced individual would be guided by the FilleRx® system to select the appropriate product inspection settings from a drop down list, if the operator possesses a valid password.
The FilleRx® system is equipped with highly sophisticated algorithms, and software routines to self-learn a new product. The operator is required to select certain settings to advance the product to a designated location within the FilleRx® system to automatically acquire sufficient product data. The FilleRx® system will ask the operator to enter the required tolerances. The self-teaching operation will take less than 120 seconds. However, an additional 5 to 10 minutes is required to run a pilot run, after which the machine is validated to run a batch production run.
Cost Advantage
The FilleRx® system is capable of operating at a rate which is at least 2.5 times the production speed of today’s current filling machines, yet the selling price is the same as or in some instances even less (“Aylward Packaging Machine”).
100% Accuracy in rejected foreign unwanted product
In addition, the performance of the FilleRx® system is guaranteed to be 100% accurate in rejecting foreign or unwanted inferior product.
