Crest Solutions has carried out a study to identify how vision technology can reduce downtime during pharmaceutical production line changeovers
Matthew Dale explores how machine vision integrators are responding to new demands in the pharmaceutical industry
Greg Blackman looks at where vision technology is used on pharma packaging lines, from blister pack inspection to track-and-trace
Nate Holmes, product manager for machine vision and motion control at National Instruments, finds that sophisticated imaging systems are required for high-content screening used in drug discovery. Here, he reports from the Vision Summit at this year's NIWeek, which took place in Austin, Texas at the beginning of August
Rachel Berkowitz discovers that, to comply with the EU Falsified Medicines Directive, pharmaceutical serialisation and authentication solutions have to be based on machine vision
Machine vision lies at the heart of pharma companies' efforts to comply with the 2011 EU Falsified Medicines Directive, says Ian Haynes, an associate of 3C Integrity, which provides serialisation solutions for the pharmaceutical industry. And, he says, time is short to build the manufacturing capabilities required and meet the 2017 deadline
With new directives proposed in Europe and the US to track pharmaceuticals and medical devices, Greg Blackman explores the surprisingly complex world of product traceability
Greg Blackman looks at some of the vision solutions employed on packaging lines
Rob Coppinger finds that vision systems are now required to track smaller and smaller markings that whizz past on ever-faster conveyors
Greg Blackman tracks the packaging lines for chemicals and pharmaceuticals and finds out where and how machine vision plays a role
Danny Reed, head of education and skills, PPMA Best, on the charity’s work to increase the number of female engineers
Dominique Bonnisseau and Corinne Tsamba from Tematys advise on the questions technology firms should ask in order to grow their business
AMRC's Integrated Manufacturing Group's work spans robotics and automation, integrated large volume metrology, digital assisted assembly and manufacturing informatics
Greg Blackman visits the University of Sheffield’s Factory 2050 where Rolls-Royce, McLaren and Siemens, among others, are investing in research on digital manufacturing
Greg Blackman asks machine vision firms what strategies they employ when hiring staff
GenDC modular model decoupling data encoding or decoding from its transmission
Stéphane Maurice, GenICam vice chair and director of software development at Matrox Imaging, describes the benefits of GenDC, the latest member of the GenICam standard family
Wolfgang Pomrehn, collaborative robotics product manager at Bosch Rexroth, says deep learning could reduce the engineering effort of introducing new products to a manufacturing line by three quarters
