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A strong trend ­toward integration With its full focus on tablet counting and bottle filling, Modular Packaging Systems has emerged as the authority in turnkey line integration. From engineering development and layout, mechanical assembly and testing, and installation and training, they provide extensive customer support over the entire life cycle of their machines. The company's products range from small clinical lines to high-speed automated filling and packaging systems.

As engineering resources become more constrained, particularly among pharmaceutical producers, Modular Packaging Systems' integration capability has risen to center stage. Its ability to tie each of the machine controls into a productivity-enhancing central monitoring system has become popular. Due to the ease with which all B&R components could be integrated into their existing systems, Modular Packaging Systems selected B&R as its partner for automation products.

Well sorted and selected The EC-12 uses Modular Packaging Systems' newest technology to achieve up to 55 100-count bottles of Âź" tablets per minute. The EC-12 is capable of discriminating oversized and undersized product from good product. This makes it possible to track unwanted product and reject it from the line. A reject station will take any bottle off line that contains a product that does not fall within a specified tablet "size" range. Customized visualization devices such as the B&R Power Panel, compact X20 I/O modules and high-performance drive components such as variable frequency drives, stepper motors and servo drives ensure maximum reliability and processing speed for the electronic EC-12 counting controller. Another machine from Modular Packaging Systems is the MC-2, a semi-automatic dual lane vibratory counting machine for small production runs or check counter applications. It provides accurate counts into hand-fed bottles and can handle a large range of product sizes and shapes. The machine can also be fitted to an automated base, with a conveying system delivering bottles to the machine automatically. This compact bench-top machine can run at speeds of up to 8 bottles per minute for 100 count bottles of Âź" tablets. Critical to its systems integration business, Modular Packaging Systems offers a wide variety of container handling options designed to customize conveying and optimize efficiency and speed throughout the line. All conveyor and container handling equipment is constructed with high-grade stainless steel and designed to integrate easily and seamlessly together. Designing or redesigning a packaging line with conveyor systems from Modular Packaging Systems is very straightforward. The adjustable components require no tools to adjust, making changeover fast and simple.

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