Collaboration develops AI-powered line clearance for pharma
A ‘breakthrough approach’ for AI-powered automated line clearance in pharmaceutical manufacturing has been developed by product design and technology innovation consultancy 42 Technology and partners Balluff, Synaptics and Arcturus Networks.
Together, they have developed a lower cost, flexible, and scalable alternative to existing AI-powered automated technologies.
According to 42 Technology (42T), most dedicated systems designed to automate line clearance processes are too expensive for widespread use because of their high hardware costs, complex integration, and the need for extensive training on production lines.
The new approach is said to address these challenges by using a fully autonomous, deep-learning AI platform. Unlike conventional systems, the inspection system is designed to enable in-process learning without the need for lengthy setup and training routines on live production lines.
Line clearance checks are critical in pharmaceutical manufacturing to ensure that all materials, products, labels and records from a previous batch have been completely removed before starting the next one. The process involves manual inspections, often taking up to one hour between batches.
The new AI-powered approach combines Balluff’s high-performance image acquisition system with Arcturus’s deep-learning models and the Synaptics Astra SL1680 edge AI processor.
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