How do you package medication sets with four components each, at a rate of 200 per minute, in compliance with pharmaceutical manufacturing requirements? Uhlmann Pac-Systeme has the answer: with a UPS 5 blister machine. Their system concept, which uses hygienic Stäubli SCARA robots for cycle time-critical handling processes, can be scaled on a modular basis. The longest UPS 5 system to date, featuring four robot stations and high-speed feeding systems, recently went into operation.

Parenteral is better: This is the guiding principle of physicians for numerous medications. It means avoiding the “detour” through the digestive tract and delivering active ingredients directly to the bloodstream or tissue, for example, with syringes, pens, and other drug delivery devices.

Uhlmann Pac-Systeme develops and manufactures the perfect secondary packaging systems for parenteral products. The injection devices used to administer the medications are typically packaged in single-dose blister packs containing several different components. To accommodate this format, Uhlmann developed the modular UPS 5 blister machine, which can be expanded to adapt to different user requirements.