Flexible manufacturing: opening the "key" to the bottleneck of pharmaceutical equipment development

Pharmaceutical Network Market Analysis" "Smart Manufacturing" has become a new global growth point, Germany in the development of industry 4.0, China launched "smart manufacturing 2025." One of the characteristics of intelligent manufacturing is the ability to penetrate the concept of manufacturing automation into the flexible, intelligent level, so as to achieve on-demand production and flexible productionAt present, with the product customization, "multi-variety, small-volume" production demand continues to expand, the value of flexible manufacturing more and more prominentMike Newman, global CEO of Fastems, has said that "personalized customization based on flexible manufacturing provides a competitive production model for modern manufacturing companies"to the pharmaceutical equipment industry, China's pharmaceutical industry in recent years, the rapid development of the market competition is very fierce, pharmaceutical companies procurement equipment on the progress of equipment production is more urgent, pharmaceutical equipment enterprises are faced with shorter delivery times and shorter planning period, and some pharmaceutical companies customized equipment needs to meet the production needs of a variety of product models, customized projects time is also a problemflexible manufacturing will become the "key" to solve the above bottlenecksPharmaceutical equipment from a single, information island-type equipment, development to accompany the automation, intelligent system use of the wire, continuous equipment, flexible production will be the pharmaceutical industry more flexible production enablingAt present, there are pharmaceutical equipment enterprises in the exploration of "robot production robot" mode, such as Chutian intelligent manufacturing project completed, will have detection robots, filling robots, aseptic transport robots and other pharmaceutical robots equipped with flexible manufacturing lines, personalized pharmaceutical equipment intelligent factoryIt is forecast that the plant will achieve a 66.7% reduction in labor costs, a 37.9% increase in production efficiency, a 27.3% reduction in the rate of non-performing products, and a 13.3% increase in energy efficiencyindustry, flexible manufacturing is characterized by "modular design concept", "easy-to-expand production" and "good results that can be replicated"The system not only has practical functions and high automation efficiency, but also flexible response to product updates and steering, with strong compatibilityfor example, the high value and low-yield product characteristics of sterile preparations require high requirements for flexible manufacturing of equipment, traditional equipment covers a large space, and the area that needs to be disinfected before production is largeHow to make use of the equipment smaller footprint, to complete a variety of drug reagents and production is the pursuit of aseptic preparation enterprisesThis problem was solved after the birth of the hybrid pre-potted syringe filling lineIt is reported that this filling line fusion nest plate pre-filled syringe, nest plate card bottle syringe and Xilin bottle three filling and plug function, through the replacement of mold can be achieved transferAt the same time, the equipment is equipped with a fully enclosed isolator, the equipment can be used directly in C-class environmentshybrid pre-potted syringe filling line is only part of the flexible manufacturing product, more product value is being highlighted The guide catalogue for industrial structure adjustment (2019, draft for comments) mentions that the pharmaceutical sector includes eight categories of encouragement, including the development and production of pharmaceutical equipment such as continuous flexible production equipment for Chinese medicine tablets This also means that the continuous flexible production equipment of Chinese medicine tablets will usher in the opportunity pharmaceutical equipment enterprises in order to seize market opportunities, with greater competitiveness to participate in the market competition, many enterprises actively cooperate with institutions, high-tech enterprises to explore, research and development of higher value and production capacity of equipment In the background of intelligent manufacturing and the development of 5G technology, flexible manufacturing has become the trend, and enterprises with advance layout are expected to occupy the pharmaceutical equipment market highlands overall, manufacturers have had to think about how to improve equipment productivity as costs continue to rise and equipment demand increases However, if you simply increase the density of personnel and machine deployment, the effect is not ideal, and labor costs are not low With the arrival of the fourth industrial revolution, the concept of flexible automation and equipment production integration, through sensor technology to collect data in the production process, to achieve seamless connection between the equipment, the process of the production line, and can optimize the production process, help decision-making, greatly shorten the production efficiency of enterprises.