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China’s pharmaceutical packaging machinery, high-end level and that the difference was not significant, some equipment has been with the current progress of the world’s latest technology to achieve the synchronization, but the overall level or with foreign advanced level there is not a small gap.

At present, China’s pharmaceutical packaging machinery has been to fill the basic category and the basic skills gap, but in product R & D funding sources, test conditions, product stability, automatic control, with China still lags behind the international advanced level. In the automatic control technology, foreign pharmaceutical packaging machinery has been largely achieved intelligent, user-friendly design, while China’s pharmaceutical packaging machinery in the PLC control, interface control relatively backward. Apart from the use of PLC control technology, must also be in materials, design and all relevant supporting all aspects to make choices is possible to achieve intelligent control. At the same time, China’s pharmaceutical packaging machinery is still relatively lacking in stability, which may lead to product quality issues, and affect the entire packaging line.

Superior stability of pharmaceutical packaging machinery for the production large variety of medical products manufacturing enterprises, it is a very critical requirement, because the equipment may easily lead to instability and affect the production of cut-off break. Affect the stability of pharmaceutical packaging machinery main factors are materials, components and basic gear. First, the materials and components of the low-level configuration will seriously affect the stability of the device, but there are some companies out of our country to consider the procurement of low-cost and even low-quality materials and components. Second, the packaging machine on the basis of gear that affects the stability of packaging machinery one of the factors. At present, China’s pharmaceutical packaging equipment essential to chain, tugs, placed the main stalk and other basic gear, it will be brought to the mechanical stability of the hidden dangers, while the foreign pharmaceutical packaging machinery has basically adopted the servo drive systems. It should be said, companies choose a servo motor is not a very difficult thing, but businesses often will take into account the introduction of the potential cost pressure servo motor. Enterprises from the traditional application of servo motor drive mode switch, thus need to other agencies or equipment is also supporting servo motor, so that along with the improvement of control accuracy, the cost increases as a result, many pharmaceutical companies can not afford to bear.

As sub-installed, for example, the earliest sub-installed production capacity of 40 bottles per minute, followed by 60 bottles per minute, until grown to 120 bottles per minute. Abroad similar equipment in our pursuit of 60 bottles / min production speed, reached 300 bottles / min. China’s installed capacity to conduct independent research and development sub-Hafei Group’s products, every minute of production and equipment functions with foreign equipment, there was no difference, but not superior stability. If similar foreign sub-installed equipment on the 300 bottles / min production rate of production to achieve stability, then the domestic production of similar equipment is generally only stable at speed of 280 bottles / min.

Longer plastic packaging machine, for example, China-made plastic packaging machine, compared with foreign countries are lagging far behind, reflecting the work of each individual part. For example, China’s production of plastic packaging machines reticulate lines deep and uneven. For another example, feeding process at home and abroad on various types of packaging machine is a very critical and the relatively weak links, but in comparison with foreign countries, China’s pharmaceutical packaging machine loading process is even more weak. Our country still Rolling Brush-type plastic packaging machine, which incorporates a special feeding process dedicated machines. Material production processes on the last run of capsules, for example, domestic equipment production per minute of 600 tablets, 700 tablets per minute ~ 800, while the foreign plastic packing machine feeding process can be achieved in 2000 tablets / minute production rate.

The materials used, processing means and institutions supporting the coordination of other factors, directly affect the production of plastic packaging machine speed and operational status.

The current global pharmaceutical packaging machinery is moving more in line with the direction of GMP certification. For the pharmaceutical packaging machinery, the depth of the direction of development is faster, more stable, higher levels of automation and control, operation is more humane, more convenient and easier cleaning and so on. How do the depth direction along the GMP certification to develop, as well as the middle of the development strategy, needs China Pharmaceutical Packaging Machinery Industry in-depth thinking.