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PHARMA8™ for Grade A Aseptic Environments
SuperTrak CONVEYANCE™ offers SuperTrak PHARMA8™ as a hygienic stainless steel surfaced asynchronous magnetic conveyor assembly platform designed for Grade A aseptic environments.
Designed to meet FDA and EMA requirements, SuperTrak PHARMA8™ has stainless steel outer surfaces and hermetic seals suitable for Grade A spaces and is ideal for life science and pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Aseptic assembly challenges
The SuperTrak PHARMA8™ conveyance platform addresses several critical challenges in aseptic assembly within pharmaceutical manufacturing:
- Maintaining Stringent Aseptic Conditions: Ensuring compliance with Grade A aseptic standards that is essential to prevent contamination during pharmaceutical production.
- Handling High Payloads with Precision: Traditional conveyors may struggle with transporting heavier components while maintaining precise positioning, leading to inefficiencies and potential errors.
- Minimizing Space Demands: Equipment with large footprint can limit cleanroom space and increase operational costs.
- Enhancing System Flexibility and Scalability: Rigid conveyance systems can make it harder to adapt or vary production to meet rapidly changing needs, as well as more difficult to scale up operations to meet increased demand.
PHARMA8™ Solution
PHARMA8™ is a variant of the established SuperTrak HORIZON10™ magnetic shuttle assembly platform with its distinctive ‘racetrack’ design and independent asynchronous shuttle motion that is optimized to provide solutions to the specific aseptic pharma challenges.
- Aseptic Format: The SuperTrak PHARMA8™ features a stainless steel, hermetically sealed design with easily cleanable surfaces, supporting rigorous cleaning protocols and vaporized hydrogen peroxide (VHP) decontamination. This design aligns with FDA and EMA requirements for aseptic environments.
- Advanced Handling: Each shuttle on the SuperTrak PHARMA8™ can carry up to 8.5 kg, with independent control, acceleration up to 30 m/s2, and repeatability of +0.01 mm. This ensures accurate and efficient handling of heavy components in assembly processes.
- Compact Footprint: The SuperTrak PHARMA8™ allows for optimizing stations and tooling quantity vs station cycle time using independent shuttle control, potentially reducing the overall footprint by 50%. End-over-end configurations can further minimize the size of isolators or restricted-access barrier systems.
- Flexible Design: The modular nature of the SuperTrak PHARMA8™ provides design flexibility, enabling customization and scalability to meet diverse production requirements.
By addressing these issues, the SuperTrak PHARMA8™ enhances efficiency, compliance, and adaptability in aseptic pharmaceutical assembly processes.
Potential applications include:
- Fill and finish – precise batch control with easily cleanable surfaces for wipe down and vaporized hydrogen peroxide that will meet FDA isolator requirements.
- Rapid testing and development, such as perfecting processes for double barrel-injector assembly where recirculation of parts is needed, or various batches are being run.
Integrated Functionality
The SuperTrak PHARMA8™ platform is a Smart Conveyance technology that provides value through Integrated Functionality that incorporates multiple features into one platform. This means less complexity and less automation tooling, cutting costs and time to market.
These integrated functionalities include collision avoidance, target routing, pre-stops and defined regions for specific motion dynamics.
Specific benefits include:
- Higher performance from a more compact installation increasing OEE overall equipment effectiveness.
- Rapid indexed shuttle motion radically reduces number of tooling stations and parts required.
- Increased throughput using the system’s repeatability to remove stopper cylinders and locate tooling.
PHARMA8™ Product Specifications
SuperTrak PHARMA8™ sets a new standard for aseptic processing, making it possible for machine builders and manufacturers to design, develop, and deploy a complete fill/finish automation solution while reducing engineering complexities and risks without sacrificing performance.
This magnetic conveyor owes its proven reliability to its unique design, including limited moving parts and a shuttle that can be removed or replaced within 60s. Automation in aseptic environments can now be much leaner and more adaptable.
Resources
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With its ultra-compact footprint and easily cleaned stainless steel surfaces, PHARMA8™ is ideal for aseptic cleanroom assembly operations where space is at a premium.
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