Product and components
- Tablet and capsule counting
- Missing-product detection
- Component presence and orientation
- Colour, shape and surface checks
- Leaflet and insert presence
- Closure and tamper-evidence checks
Pharmaceutical and healthcare production
Pharmaceutical Vision Inspection Systems
Coordinate component checks, printed data, serialised codes, dynamic weight control and secure rejection around one validated production-line process.
Inspection with evidence
Verify the product, pack and variable data—not only the presence of a mark
A pharmaceutical inspection station must make the right decision and provide evidence that the intended product was checked and any failure was controlled. We engineer imaging, product handling, recipes, audit records, reject security and machine interfaces as one system.
100% inspectionRecipe controlTraceable results
Inspection applications
What can a pharmaceutical inspection system check?
The appropriate method is selected after the acceptance criteria, line speed, presentation and required evidence have been defined.
Print and identity
- OCR and OCV verification
- Batch, lot and expiry codes
- GS1 and Data Matrix verification
- Serial-number comparison
- Product-to-label matching
- Aggregation support
Weight and rejection
- Pharmaceutical checkweighers
- Missing-content detection by weight
- Underweight and overweight rejection
- Lockable reject bins
- Reject confirmation and bin-full sensing
- Fail-safe fault monitoring
Code and print controlRead, verify, compare, record and reject.
Choosing the method
When should you use machine vision, AI or checkweighing?
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Rules-based vision is effective for stable geometry, presence, position, dimensions and print.
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AI vision can help classify variable surfaces or natural appearance where fixed rules are too brittle.
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Checkweighing can detect missing contents when the weight difference remains larger than normal process variation.
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Code readers and OCR/OCV verify identity and variable data against the current job or database.
Project assurance
Validation begins with an agreed requirement
We define acceptance criteria, challenge sets, user access, recipe handling, data retention, alarms and reject tests before final sign-off.
URS review
Map each requirement to inspection, control, record or mechanical design.
Feasibility
Prove the critical checks with representative pass, fail and borderline samples.
Build and test
Document recipes, faults, access, reject challenges and interfaces.
Commission
Complete production trials, training and agreed acceptance evidence.
Direct answers
Pharmaceutical inspection FAQs
We can review your URS, line data and samples before recommending hardware.
Ask an application question →What can pharmaceutical vision inspection verify?
Typical checks include component presence and orientation, print and artwork, OCR and OCV, Data Matrix and serial numbers, label identity, tamper-evident features and pack completeness.
Can pharmaceutical checkweighing detect missing components?
It can when the missing component creates a stable, measurable difference relative to process and environmental variation. Representative trials establish the realistic detection window.
How is failed-product rejection secured?
Projects can include reject confirmation, lockable reject bins, bin-full sensors, guarded access, air-pressure monitoring and fail-safe line-stop logic according to the agreed risk assessment.