Base Handling Products Limited
Unit 20
Barleyfield Industrial Estate
Brynmawr
Gwent
NP23 4YF

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Pharmaceutical Handling System

Pharmaceutical Handling System

Pharmaceutical Handling System Description

This Pharmaceutical Handling System was manufactured from Grade 304 stainless steel with a minimum 240 Grit finish except for product contact parts which were 316 Grade stainless steel. The Pharmaceutical Handling System was designed to lift and tip approximately 5 Kgs of rubber stoppers into a feed chute at a discharge height of approximately 2150mm. The Pharmaceutical Handling System is used in an Aseptic Environment and conforms to a very high Pharmaceutical Specification for a multi national Pharmaceutical Manufacturer.

Pharmaceutical Handling System

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The Pharmaceutical Handling System lifting mechanism and moving parts were contained within a guarded and interlocked enclosure which was also sealed to ensure no cross contamination from the outside. The rubber stoppers were delivered into this enclosure via a special purpose delivery hatch and once inside the enclosure, the stoppers were removed from their protective packing via glove ports. Once the stoppers were loaded into the lifting hopper, the gloves could be retracted through the glove port and the Pharmaceutical Handling System operated via dual pneumatic push button control from the outside.

The lifting hopper is raised by the extension of a pneumatic cylinder which lifts the hopper until is engages with a tipping cam and is rotated through an angle of 150 degrees to discharge into the filling line feed chute. The lifting hopper is clamped into place with a quick release clamp mechanism and can easily be removed for auto-claving.

The whole Pharmaceutical Handling System was mobile on castors so that it could be easily manoeuvred into position for operation and removed for cleaning. The base frame was a fabricated structure from stainless steel box section with two 100mm diameter nylon fixed castors and two 100mm diameter nylon swivel braked castors suitable for an Aseptic Environment.

Safety Guarding

The Pharmaceutical Handling System was enclosed in a guard constructed from stainless steel box section with a 12mm thick clear Polycarbonate sheet. Each access hatch or door was independently interlocked with a pneumatic interlock switch to maintain a very high level of safety and product integrity. The whole Safety Guard and the main column of the lift were split at an appropriate position to allow the machine to be moved around through doorways during installation.

Pharmaceutical Handling System Specification

Factory Acceptance Testing & Documentation

The Factory Acceptance Test and Documentation for this Pharmaceutical Handling System was an integral part of the whole contract and was completed to a high standard based on the customers own FAT Documentation which also specified the documentation that should accompany the system. Factory Acceptance Testing was undertaken at our factory and also at the customers premises before the Pharmaceutical Handling System was put into production. The Documentation included the following:-

• OEM Manual
• Material Certificates
• Component Certificates
• Pneumatic Control Circuit Drawings
• General Arrangement Drawings
• Independent Stress Calculations using FMEA Software
• Load Test Certificate
• CE Certificate

Pharmaceutical Handling System Application Story

This Pharmaceutical Handling System was very much a bespoke piece of equipment conceived by the customer as an outline proposal and then designed, manufactured, tested and installed by Base to very high and stringent Pharmaceutical Standard for use in an Aseptic Environment.

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