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#SuccessStory #Tablet Blisters Wallet-style Pharma Packaging for Enhanced Safety

  • Despite integrated product buffer, compact footprint: 2 × 9 meters
  • Product buffer allows up to 10 minutes of production
  • Proof-of-concept study conducted for buffer functionality
  • High storage capacity
  • Fast format changes

240

Blisters per minute

 

20

Minute Changeover

 

Requirement

Economic and consumer-friendly: Packaging tablets in a wallet (folding card made of cardboard with an integrated blister) saves packaging material and is convenient for consumers.

Another advantage: The tablet blister remains attached to the packaging at all times, ensuring that important information stays accessible throughout the product’s use. Schubert-Pharma was commissioned by a pharmaceutical company to implement a fully automated solution for wallet packaging.

Solution

Schubert-Pharma delivered a flexible TLM wallet packaging machine to the customer. The first section of the machine includes a product buffer that temporarily stores products coming from the blister machine. The buffer can hold products from the production line for up to ten minutes, ensuring a continuous and efficient operation of the upstream machine. This pacing guarantees the customer a smooth and uninterrupted packaging process. Additionally, Schubert-Pharma conducted a line-efficiency study together with the customer during the project planning phase to ensure maximum performance.

Another advantage of the paced machine is the simple format change and, above all, the easy restart of the machine after a format change. Moreover, the paced version allows different wallet designs to be run on the same packaging machine.

 

Easy format changes and, above all, the effortless restart of the machine after a format change are advantages of this system.

 

Synchronized packaging process

The implemented packaging solution, capable of processing up to 240 blisters per minute, essentially includes the following steps/functions:

  • Grouping and positioning the blisters for packaging in wallets
  • Integrated dynamic buffer
  • Positioning and gluing of the wallet sleeves
  • Inserting the blisters into the wallet card
  • Folding processes to close the wallets
  • Labelling each wallet with laser printers
  • Adding the package insert
  • Grouping the sales units
  • Wrapping the consumer units in foil
  • Vignetting the shrink-wrapped pack with data read-back and management
  • Delivery to the subsequent shipping packaging stage