Syntegon validates AI-equipped visual inspection system in production line

Syntegon recently installed its first AI-equipped visual inspection system in a fully automatic and validated machine in a client'southward production line.

Syntegon Applied science recently installed the fully validated visual inspection organization utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) in an automated inspection motorcar. The installation constitutes a major pace in the company's sustained effort to introduce AI to pharmaceutical visual inspection, thereby exploring largely uncharted territory in the industry. "We are proud to announce this important motility, which is the joint result of long-standing visual inspection expertise, solid software and pharmaceutical validation competence, courage to cross boundaries, and an splendid partnership with our customer," says Dr José Zanardi, responsible for vision inspection development and applications at Syntegon.

The benefits of deep learning

As one of the virtually challenging stages in the pharmaceutical manufacturing process, inspection requires ever more sophisticated visual systems to process increasingly complex products. "Especially for high-cost pharmaceuticals, every single false refuse is ane too many," Zanardi says. AI applications have the potential of further increasing detection rates and decreasing the number of fake rejects in difficult products like highly gluey parenteral solutions with air bubbles, which are sometimes hard to differentiate from harmful particles. AI utilizes deep learning algorithms that are capable of accurately identifying recurring patterns and deviations.

Syntegon has more than 40 years of
experience in the evolution and
manufacture of automatic visual inspection
machines for all liquid pharmaceuticals and
container types.

"A growing number of deep learning vision applications are already on the market. Our task was to adapt those applications for pharmaceutical purposes, which essentially also includes validation," Zanardi explains. In fact, cheers to thorough in-house software and visual inspection expertise, Syntegon was able to develop a solution that only requires moderate modifications to the already existing vision systems. The company leads the field with over 40 years of experience in the development and manufacture of visual inspection machines, covering a wide array of transmission, semi-automated, and fully automated solutions for all liquid pharmaceuticals and container types.

Offset successful installation

After starting with the AI development in 2022 and performing a big number of tests, Syntegon recently installed its kickoff AI-equipped visual inspection organization in a fully automated and validated machine in a customer's production line. Amgen, one of the world'due south leading biotechnology companies, uses the system to reliably distinguish air bubbles at the syringe's condom stopper from foreign particles, where conventional vision engineering oft mistakenly identifies rubber products containing bubbles as lacking. "This challenging project required a lot of dedication and expertise. In cooperation with Syntegon, we take implemented the world-first syringe inspection machine with AI and underline our marketplace position, both in biotechnology production and in technology," says Manuel Soto, Principal Process Development engineer at Amgen.

In this client projection, Syntegon's AI-based vision system was able to increase the particle detection rate by seventy per centum while reducing the false detection rate by 60 percent (average values in a detail inspection station). "We are very happy that our new technology is able to contribute to higher safe and production efficiency of injectable drugs," Zanardi says. Backed past this success, Syntegon is ready to implement AI in farther inspection machines for different products and container types, thus contributing to the production of safe and reliable pharmaceutical products worldwide.

Syntegon Engineering is a global process and packaging technology provider. Formerly the packaging division of the Bosch Group, the company, headquartered in Waiblingen (Federal republic of germany), has been offering consummate solutions for the pharmaceutical and food industries for over 50 years. More than half dozen,100 employees at 30 locations in more 15 countries generated total revenue of EUR i.3 billion in 2019. The portfolio of intelligent and sustainable technologies includes stand-alone machines, as well equally complete systems and services. Fields of application in the pharmaceutical industry are the production, processing, filling, inspection, and packaging of liquid and solid pharmaceuticals (syringes and capsules). In the food industry, the portfolio includes process technology for confectionery as well as packaging solutions for dry out foods (bars, baker products, and coffee), frozen foods, and dairy products.

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