I. Semi-Automatic Capsule Filling Machine
Key Features: Requires human intervention in key stages (such as filling and locking), with mechanical assistance for separation and sorting.
Advantages:
- Low initial investment cost: The price is significantly lower than fully automatic models, making it an ideal choice for startups, small laboratories, clinics, or manufacturers with limited budgets.
- Simple and flexible operation: The structure is relatively simple, requiring minimal technical skills from operators, and training is easy. Changing capsule sizes (e.g., from #00 to #0) and materials is quick and easy.
- Small footprint: Compact size, does not require complex supporting facilities (such as large dust removal or centralized vacuum systems), and has low requirements for production space.
- Advantages for small-batch production/prototyping: Very suitable for R&D, small-batch trial production, customized production, or clinical batch manufacturing. The filling amount per capsule can be flexibly adjusted, and even special materials can be filled manually.
- Easy maintenance and low failure rate: The mechanical structure is simple, making it easy to diagnose and repair malfunctions, resulting in lower maintenance costs.
II. Fully Automatic Capsule Filling Machine
Key Features: From empty capsule arrangement to filling, locking, and finished product discharge, everything is completed automatically. Human intervention is only required for monitoring and loading/unloading materials.
Advantages:
- Extremely high production efficiency: Fast operating speed, with mainstream models producing 15,000 to 150,000 capsules per hour or even higher, meeting the needs of large-scale industrial continuous production.
- High filling accuracy and stable product quality: Uses mechanical plungers or metering pumps for precise measurement, resulting in minimal weight variation and high product uniformity, meeting strict pharmacopoeia standards and GMP regulations.
- High degree of automation and low labor costs: Typically, only one person is needed to monitor multiple machines, responsible for replenishing materials and capsule shells, significantly reducing labor costs per unit product and dependence on operator skills.
- Good integration and compliance: Can be equipped with automatic weight checking machines (automatic rejection of defective products), dust removal systems, metal detection, batch number printing, and other functions, making it easy to integrate into production lines. Production data can be recorded and traced, better meeting modern drug regulatory requirements.
- Well-controlled production environment: Closed production reduces human intervention, lowering the risk of microbial and cross-contamination, and is more conducive to maintaining a clean room environment.
