Application prospect and cost analysis of medicine cartoning machine

With the continuous improvement of people's living standards, people pay more and more attention to life and health. The packaging of medicines is also getting more and more attention. Therefore, each country will also attach great importance to the use of a set of GMP standards for the raw materials, personnel, equipment, production process, packaging and transportation and quality control of medicines.

GMP is a set of mandatory standards applicable to the pharmaceutical, food and other industries. It requires enterprises to meet hygienic quality requirements in accordance with relevant national regulations in terms of raw materials, personnel, facilities and equipment, production process, packaging and transportation, quality control, etc., and form a set of operable The operating specifications help enterprises to improve the sanitary environment of the enterprise, find out the problems existing in the production process in time, and make improvements. Briefly, GMP requires that pharmaceutical, food and other production enterprises should have good production equipment, reasonable production process, perfect quality management and strict testing system to ensure that the quality of final products (including food safety and hygiene) meets regulatory requirements.

Today we focus on discussing the cartoning link in the packaging process of medicines. As the name implies, there are two main ways of boxing in the boxing process, manual cartoning and machine cartoning.

1. Comparative analysis of cartoning

Comparison of manual cartoning 

Features of manual cartoning

There is no need to provide packaging equipment, only a work site and a simple workbench need to be provided. The operation is simple and can be operated by ordinary workers.

Disadvantages of manual cartoning 

1) The efficiency of manual cartoning is low, about 10-15 boxes per minute. Actual speed may be less than 10 boxes/min.

2) Due to the inefficiency of manual cartoning, a large number of ordinary workers are required. At this time, the management difficulty increases, and the management cost increases at the same time. In addition to cartoning, a large number of ordinary workers also need to print the production date and production batch number on the carton. At the same time, some cartons also require a large number of workers to label.

3) In order to stimulate the enthusiasm of workers, each enterprise usually calculates the daily remuneration in the way of piece rate in calculating wages. Therefore, workers also want to get more compensation, and the quality and appearance of the boxes are often discounted. For example, there is one more strip and one missing. Or there are no issues such as adding instructions manual.

4) There are still difficulties in recruiting workers in some areas.

Comparison of using a medicine cartoning machine

Disadvantages of using a medicine cartoning machine

1) Equipment costs require a one-time investment. For the input cost probably includes the cost of the medicine cartoning machine, shipping costs, and customs clearance fees in each country. The cost of this is different for different countries due to sea freight and customs clearance.

2) Each pharmaceutical company needs to be equipped with one or two engineers to maintain and maintain the equipment and guide the operators.

Features of using medicine cartoning machine

1) The production efficiency and degree of automation are significantly improved. Continuous automatic production can be achieved, the front end can be linked with the blister packaging machine (also manual feeding) to achieve balanced production, and the back end can be linked with automatic inkjet printers, labeling machines, sorting scales, and case packing machines to achieve linkage and balanced production.

2) Due to the reduction of operating workers, the labor cost and corresponding management cost are greatly reduced.

3) Use a cartoning machine for packaging, the carton has a beautiful appearance and high grade, which is conducive to the image of the product.

4) The equipment has no pollution to the working place and occupies a small area.

5) The packaging of medicines reduces human contact, eliminates secondary pollution, and ensures safety and health.

6) The medicines are packed by cartoning machine, which meets the requirements of GMP certification.

To sum up, as people pay more and more attention to health, the demand for packaging with medicine cartoning machines continues to increase. Blisters, oral liquids, vaccines, reagents, ampoules and other medicines are all boxed by equipment. Therefore, the medicine cartoning machine is a very popular packaging equipment in the pharmaceutical industry.

2. Economic analysis of cartoning

I take the PZH-120D automatic cartoning machine of Wenzhou Liner Machinery Co., Ltd. as an example. According to the customer's packaging, 10 strips and instructions are packaged into the carton.

1) At present, according to the consumption level of Wenzhou, China, the minimum wage in Wenzhou is US$300 per month. The wages of every worker cannot be lower than this wage. Of course, in other cities, the minimum wage is higher than this standard, but also lower than this standard.

In fact, the average worker's monthly salary is about 700-900 US dollars, and there is a monthly insurance of 200 US dollars (including medical insurance, pension insurance, etc.), so the monthly labor cost is about 1,000 US dollars. So for 12 months a year, the cost per worker is about $12,000.

According to the price we give you, the cost of 2 workers is equivalent to a cartoning machine in our company.

The packing speed of each worker is about 10 boxes/minute, and it is calculated according to 8 hours a day.

10x60x8=4800 boxes/day.

The speed of each cartoning machine is about 60 boxes per minute, mainly considering manual feeding.

60x60x8=28800 boxes/day.

28800/4800=6 peoples.

Therefore, in the same working hours, each machine is equivalent to the packing speed of 6 peoples.

Each machine only needs 2 workers, all one machine can reduce 4 workers.

Or in your country, worker salaries and social benefits vary, but 4 workers and overhead can be reduced.

Therefore, no matter from the comparative analysis of cartoning or the economic analysis, we can see the advantages and prospects of using cartoning machines for medicines.