Package Inspection Products & Services
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Seal Integrity Monitoring System (SIMS) 1915+ (Helium Leak Detection)
1/29/2021
The most current model, the Seal Integrity Monitoring System (SIMS) 1915+, is the ideal choice for your helium-based leak detection system. Compared to conventional vacuum bubble and dye penetration test methods, packages can be quantitatively tested using helium as the tracer gas that ensures higher levels of accuracy. Such an approach allows a comparison between multiple packaging materials and forms production line settings and stability storage conditions, supporting the entire lifecycle.
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Helium Leak Detection For Combination Drug Products
1/29/2021
There have been many advances over the past decade in terms of drug product delivery methods. As a result, key developments like unique cartridge based delivery systems have become common. It is well documented that Helium mass spectrometry is most suited for non-porous packaging such as vials and syringes. The same methodology can also be applicable to cartridge based delivery systems. In most cases the key to success is the development of a text fixture device designed and manufactured to the specific cartridge system being testing. These custom fixtures for helium leak detection can be designed to isolate specific areas of interest in the cartridge system.
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Helium Leak Testing System For Foil Pouches
1/29/2021
Integrity testing of foil pouches offers a unique set of challenges. In most packaging processes that involve foil as the product barrier there is a concern about the incidence of punctures in the foil. These defects (typically called micro-voids) can be created as the foil is being rolled in thin sheets and tiny particles are inadvertently rolled into the foil. The most common defect is caused from the handling of the packages during the assembly of the foil and insertion of the drug product.
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Helium Leak Detection For Blister Packaging
1/29/2021
A helium based test method for verifying the integrity of a blister card holding drug product has been proven to be the most effective approach due to the extreme sensitivity offered. The test method relies on detecting helium sealed in the package system as it escapes through micro-channels in the package. A test sequence begins by placing the package in the test fixture and a vacuum is quickly drawn. The resulting pressure differential causes helium to escape through potential holes or cracks in the package.
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Helium Leak Detection For Bottles
1/29/2021
Bottles come in a wide array of sizes and configurations, reflective of their diverse use in the health sciences industry. Typically, they exhibit a screw top closure threaded onto the bottle mouth, though sealing properties ranges from elastomeric liners, to o-rings, to induction seals and reliance on plastic-to-plastic contact and compression. One specific trend is the increase in need to test sterile bulk containers or sterile API containers. As the industry continues to move toward outsourcing or even insourcing through a network of suppliers or sites, transport of sterile drug product or API is becoming increasingly common. These types of containers are traditionally challenging to test, but can be qualified prior to use or as a proof of concept using helium leak detection.
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Helium Leak Testing Equipment For Pre-Filled Syringes
1/29/2021
With the advent of more advanced drug development for a wide variety of injectable compounds and an increasing preference for self-administration, prefilled syringes are the largest parenteral package growth sector. In many ways, the prefilled syringe is more complex and intricate in comparison to a traditional vial, a sealed ampoule, or bottles with screw top closures. They have multiple sealing sites that require integrity, but there is also a functionality piece associated: the syringe plunger must be able to deliver a dose, and thus, is movable.
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Helium Leak Testing Equipment For Parenterals
1/29/2021
Parenteral products, specifically vials, both glass and, increasingly, polymeric vials, represent one of the most common package systems historically tested by helium leak detection, largely due to their continued dominance as a package system for high-potency drugs requiring utmost protection. The primary sealing interface of a traditional vial system is between the elastomeric closure and land seal of a vial, physically compressed together by a crimped aluminum seal.
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Helium Leak Detection Systems For Life Sciences
1/29/2021
Helium leak detection (HeLD) is routinely used and widely accepted for applications that require the utmost leak sensitivity.
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New Integrated Product Data Check
1/12/2021
Optional Data Presence and Readability Inspection for Round and Oriented Products
Product mislabeling is an easily preventable error. When the cost of mislabeled products reaching the marketplace is a product recall, the decision to implement procedures to prevent the error becomes an easy one. This is best accomplished through the use of automated vision inspection to verify product information on the label in production. But limited production space can present a problem when it comes to implementing such a solution. That is where the Product Data Check option for our Product Inspection systems comes in. -
Cap & Fill Level Vision Inspection Systems
10/14/2020
A missing or cocked cap on a product package can result in unnecessary product waste and costly rework, which leads to lost profits. Our systems can quickly identify products with missing or improperly-applied caps, removing them from the production line and alerting operators to the issue.