Case Study: Optimizing Capsule Counting Accuracy

In addition to their expertise in hard gelatin capsules, our customer offers a new range of soft gel capsules available in a wide variety of shapes, sizes and colors, suitable for oral, topical or ophthalmic administration.

Manufacturing such products requires cutting-edge production facilities. Hence our customer's engineering department called upon METTLER TOLEDO to design a pilot capsule bag filling solution.

METTLER TOLEDO has already supplied this production site with several weighing solutions. As seen in the picture opposite the site has weigh booths containing weigh scales connected to an IND690 terminal. These are for the weighing of active ingredients and excipients in the formulation of the capsules. Each booth contains three different sized scales to allow for the dispensing of small, medium or large volumes. Each IND690 terminal is in turn connected to a bar code reader to ensure the correct ingredients are used and a label maker to print labels for the finished weighed material.