Better Vision For Pharmaceuticals

Machine vision system is automated inspection systems based on an image technology, such as sensors, cameras or scanners

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Pharmaceuticals ranks higher in the minds of consumers owing to the constant need for medication for remaining fit or recovering from ailments. Thus, consumption of medicines is almost a never-ending saga for any age group. Quality, effectiveness, and safety of these medicines is of utmost importance so as not to compromise on consumer’s health. Pharmaceutical industry is a highly regulated industry with extremely high-quality requirements. Conventionally for inspections of quality, determination of package integrity, batch numbers, expiry dates, and other aspects factories had to rely on human inspection or invest heavily in separate solutions for inspection. Manual inspection certainly has limitations and in order to improve quality and to deliver safe and secure medicines, use of image processing system in pharmaceutical production lines is increasing. Such measures ensure high manufacturing quality thus meeting FDA compliance norms. Today, machine vision systems are widely used in nearly every stage of pharmaceutical manufacturing process.

Machine vision systems are automated inspection systems based on an image technology, such as sensors, cameras or scanners. Whether testing color of pills, filling level of syrup, identification of missing components in packaging or blisters, identification of codes on boxes or labelling, manufacturers are using machine vision to improve line productivity and quality and thus reduce wastage and risk. In addition, such vision and allied systems are in place for ensuring efficient track and trace mechanism where individual blisters can be tracked to the package, carton, and exact batch based on a barcode or serial number.