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GLASS TUBING CONTAINERS PRODUCTION PROCESS WITH ADVANCED AUTOMATED PROCESS
CONTROL AND REGULATION (PR 615)
Enhanced
quality of small pharmaceutical vials
The aim is to increase the production and to improve the quality when
producing small glass containers (vials) for pharmaceutical use. To
achieve this the control system of the converter must be improved.
Project
partners
Except Glafo the following partners participate in this CRAFT project
financed by the EC:
· SPAMI: Italian manufacturer
of the machinery
· Bunder Glas: German user of the machines
· Freeman & Harding: English wholesaler of pharmaceutical
containers
· BONUS: Czech distributor of glass containers
· MONICO: Italian final user of pharmaceutical containers.
Optimised
manufacturing temperature
An improved checking and automated control system could optimise the
temperature for every single vial. To achieve this the temperature of
the melted glass must be measured and adjusted for every new vial that
is formed.
Measuring
of the material thickness
To manufacture the vials glass tubes are used as base material. The
problem is that the thickness of the glass in the tubes is varying.
That means that the amount of glass which has to be melted, is varying.
Therefore the thickness will be measured continuously in the new manufacturing
process, and the amount of glass will be optimised.
Quality
control
Glafo’s part in this is to control the quality of the products
before and after the project, respectively. The main task is to correlate
the quality and production parameters of the product.
Measuring
of the bottom temperature
One of the production parameters is the temperature that the glass gets
when the bottom is formed. This temperature will be registered for a
large number of vials and then correlated with experimentally determined
alkaline leaching, and correlated with the distribution of glass thickness
of the vial.
The project is running for
two years and is calculated to be finished in 2003.
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