The Hapa on-line printing solution as a continuous improvement and LEAN tool
Production trends in the Pharmaceuticals industry.
“More complexity and less time to produce”.
This phenomenon may not be new but it is in ever accelerating momentum. You will find below a non-exhaustive list of the challenges facing the Pharmaceutical manufacturing supply chain:
- • Increased number of packaging variants
- • Smaller batch sizes with frequent changeovers
- • Lengthy changeover procedures and line clearance
- • Packaging reconciliation
- • Warehouse stock value reduction
- • Minimum order sizes from packaging suppliers
- • Fast time to the market with new and existing products
- • Marking of unit dose blisters
- • Implementation of anti-counterfeiting measures, like serialised codes or printed covert security
- • Implementation of Lean principles
- • Focus on OEE improvement
- • Reduction of costs
- • EU directive on packaging waste
- • Security and integrity of packaging
You will find here-after a split of Pharma production time. Often, the Effective Run Time (ERT) is not above 30%.
• Glossary: Planned Down Time (PDT), Effective Run Time (ERT), Unplanned down time (UDT), Change Over Time (COT).
Late stage customisation of Pharmaceutical primary packaging is a growing trend and it is only the beginning. Hapa’s on demand printing solutions are recognized worldwide as the most appropriate and successful for the supply chain.
You will find below some of the benefits of Late Stage Customisation with Hapa and aluminium blister foil:
- • Reduce your printed blister aluminium foil spend
- • Reduce your stock value and improve your working capital
- • Reduce your admin and number of printed aluminium blister foil orders, receptions, incoming validations.
- • No more mixups
- • No more waste of obsolete references
- • No more late production because of missing or late printed blister foil deliveries
- • No machine stops related to wrong eye mark distance
- • No more printed foil reconciliation
- • No more batch or expiry date with poor embossing
- • No more make ready for variables date embossing
- • No more time loss related to printed foil from stock and back to stock