A major project has now been completed for one of our customers, a large pharmaceutical company with a long experience from inhaled drug delivery. Our most recent equipment offers automated high-throughput 24/7 delivered dose testing of dry powder inhalers.
A large number of inhalers is loaded into a magazine and the controller works down a list of operations such as delivered dose testing and waste dosing (between periods of the dosing regime). The technology builds on well-established process control equipment from, e.g., Siemens and Festo, why it sits well withing the customers existing support and maintenance organisation.
In this particular project, together with the customer we first developed bench top equipment which represented the core of the handling and testing of the inhalers to de-risk before designing the fully automated equipment. Besides paving the way for full automation, they came early into use as work horses for semi-automated handling in the customer’s regular work routine. The benchtop equipment has been customised for a number of different inhalers. You can see examples of the equipment here: Dose and Waste Collectors Archives – AB FIA Online Store
