8 Questions To Answer Before Requesting A Tablet Counting Machine

The tablet counting machine facilitates the accurate counting of tablets. It gives you 100% outcomes unless a fault develops due to dust or accumulation of unwanted material in the sensor tray. Investing in procuring the tablet counting machine is certainly a big decision. Let us help you to provide 8- questions to answer before requesting a tablet counting machine.

By reading this informative blog you’ll be able to understand your options to assess before contacting a vendor. Indeed, in this way, you can save your and the vendor’s time. So, let’s get started!

Ⅰ.What is your counting material?

Ⅱ.What is your required production capacity?

Ⅲ.What is the material of your bottle and its size?

Ⅳ.After filling, do you require the desiccant or cotton inserting?

Ⅴ.How do you want the bottle to be capped?

VI.What is your budget?

Ⅶ.Are you purchase the tablet counting line for yourself or for trade?

Ⅷ.When do you require to put it into production?

Conclusion

Ⅰ.What is your counting material?

First, define your counting material. Is it a pill, capsule, gummy candies, or any food item? It is very important to specify the filling product. Because some products are very sensitive and prone to stick or require dedusting before counting. Hence manufacturer is required to keep certain information in mind before recommending a solution.

PILLS

PILLS

The tablet counting machine generates a fast, precise, and accurate pill counting job in a short time. Some machines have the capacity to count pills in bulk quantity. This machine can count tablet pills, and capsule pills of different sizes, shapes, and better option than manual counting.

GUMMY CANDIES

Are you belonging to the gummy manufacturing sector? Or are you facing difficulty in counting sticky gummy candies? Each packet or bottle of gummies contains a specific number of products. Indeed, they are sensitive, and prone to stick and moisture. The tablet counting machine is designed to handle soft gummies and is capable to sort defective ones ultimately enhancing your business. The tablet counting machine counts an unlimited number of gummy bears when produced.

OTHER ITEMS

High precision tablet counting machine is a flexible device that works either standalone or integrated with another production line for counting chemical content, agricultural products, or food goods such as coffee beans, Choco beans, sugar-free tablets, bottles, and bagging, or pouches.

II.What is your required production capacity?

Knowing your production capacity or required tablets per container/bottle allows you to better plan and production schedule. This ensures to obtain production accuracy, correct machine, timely production, and forecasting cash flow.
Many manufacturers are not aware of calculating production capacity. Therefore, a decision based on proper estimation is always good instead rough assessments.
By looking into production capacity, you will be offered by following machine list:

TYPES OF MACHINES

Tabletop Tablet Counting Machine

If you have a small facility or began with a small business then tabletop is the ideal solution. This machine is capable to fit into a small or compact environment. You can apply this device for counting various kinds of products with switching parts or components. This machine has no limited features but can be adjusted and used to fill various sizes, and types of bottles, cans, or bags.

Semi-Automatic Tablet Counting Machine

This type of tablet counting machine is designed for small to medium production output. This machine is ideal for counting and filling pills, caplets, and other oral solid dosage form format and tabletted content. Except introducing the product into a hopper and discharging of filled, rest of the task machine will be performed by the machine itself.

Automatic Tablet Counting Machine

High production in the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and food industries usually requires a complete solution with ultimate accuracy, flexibility, and consistency in their processing. If you get a recommendation to choose a high-speed automatic tablet counting machine it means you will be capable to get high counting accuracy of bulk tablets, and capsules while reducing the chances of breakage of product during the procedure. Side by side, the machine is easy to clean and ensures fast changeover that might contribute to a highly efficient production line.

MODEL	PRODUCTION CAPACITY
APC-12	Capsule: 00-5# Soft gels, φ5.5-22 Tablets, φ3-20 pills special shape tablets, coating tablets, and some other solid granules. Counting Capacity 20- 40 Bottle Per Minute- Depending upon quantity and size of tablet.
APC- 16	Capsule: 00-5# Soft gels, φ5.5-22 Tablets, φ3-20 pills Normal Tablets Counting Capacity 40- 150 Bottle per Minute
APC-24	Capsule: 00-5# Soft gels, φ5.5-22 Tablets, φ3-20 pills Counting Capacity 20-80 Bottle Per Minute
APC-32	Capsule: 00-5# Soft gels, φ5.5-22 Tablets, φ3-20 pills special shape tablets, coating tablets, and solid granules. Counting Capacity 40-120 Bottle per Minute
APC-48	Capsule: 00-5# Soft gels, φ5.5-22 Tablets, φ3-20 pills special shape tablets, coating tablets, and some other solid granules Counting Capacity 40-150 Bottle Per Minute

III.What is the material of your bottle and its size?

Selecting the right bottle or container for filling your material is an intimidating task. Your supply vendor plays an important role in not only choosing the right machine but choosing the right bottle size. With the help of a bottle filling chart, the vendor and customers to understand and pick the correct sized bottle.

BOTTLE FILLING GUIDE CHART

The table below will show how many pills will fit into the various sizes of bottles comparable to the bottle size.

S. No	Capsule Size	Max # of Pills	Bottle Size
1	1	30	60cc
2	1	60	100cc
3	1	90	120cc
4	1	120	150cc
5	0	30	100cc
6	0	60	120cc
7	0	90	180cc
8	0	120	200cc
9	0	180	300cc
10	0	30	100cc
11	0	60	180cc
12	0	90	300cc
13	0	120	400cc
14	0	180	500cc
15	0	30	120cc
16	0	60	200cc
17	0	90	300cc
18	0	120	400cc
19	0	180	500cc

Pill Filling Guidance Chart

DETERMINATION OF COMMON TABLET SIZES

There are various shapes and sizes of pills; for measurement, you can simply consider the following six indices of tablet and capsule size such as:

Length,
Length And Width,
Length + Width + Depth,
Length × Width,
Length × Width × Depth, And
Weight

COMMON TABLET SIZE

Mini Tablet: 2 mm, 4 mm
Conventional Tablet: 5 mm; 6 mm, 13 mm tablet(Paracetamol 500 mg).

COMMON CAPSULE SIZES

Size	0	0	0	1	2	3	4	5
Outer diameter (mm)	9.91	8.53	7.65	6.91	6.35	5.82	5.31	4.91
Outer diameter (inches)	0.39	0.34	0.3	0.27	0.25	0.23	0.21	0.19
Height or Locked Length (mm)	26.14	23.3	21.7	19.4	18	15.9	14.3	11.1
Height or Locked Length (In.)	1.03	0.92	0.85	0.76	0.71	0.63	0.56	0.44
Actual Volume (mL)	1.37	0.95	0.68	0.5	0.37	0.3	0.21	0.13

IV.After filling, do you require the desiccant or cotton inserting?

Nowadays, customers are curious to keep their products stable for a long time. Placing a desiccant or a small ball of cotton inside the bottle can efficiently do this job by preventing your product from moisture.
One thing to consider whether a new counting machine or an already existing system; you must know if they are supporting integration with additional equipment. This will help you to avoid getting stuck by outdated equipment. A semi-automatic or manual filling machine may not be featured with a desiccant inserter but most automatic tablet counting machines are designed to be equipped with desiccant or cotton inserter devices to allow efficient tasks.

Ⅴ.How do you want the bottle to be capped?

Apart from tablet counting, capping is another important task to keep in mind when buying for tablet counting machine. If your production facility is already equipped with a capping machine, then you need to inform your manufacturer. Because this will help the vendor to offer a counting machine that can support smooth integration with your capping machine.

Moreover, if you are looking for a tablet counting machine that is already featured with capping devices then you need to discuss this point. Thanks to modern science and technology, that have improved your production line by offering versatile types of machinery. Recently, you can avail all these jobs by using a one-stop- solution in the form of automatic counting and capping machine (The cap type could be either screw-in or press-on).

capped

ⅤI.What is your budget?

When you’re starting to add a tablet counting machine into your production line; you must consider your production capacity concerning the budget. Definitely, this will help the manufacturer to offer you various kinds of tablet counting machines to meet your production requirement on a limited budget. For instance, if you have a low budget with optimum production requirements, you may get various options to use the semi-automatic machine. Moreover, for a high production line or managing products in a bulk; you’ll be suggested to go for automatic machines. This tablet counting machine may cost you higher but on the other side, you’ll be capable enough to reduce labor and time cost.

budget

Ⅶ.Are you purchase the tablet counting line for yourself or for trade?

No one understands your business requirement or counting capacity like you do.
Before investing in buying a tablet counting machine; inform your manufacturer of whether you require it for yourself or trade purposes. Some vendors may hold extra promotions and sale points to value their customers. How many machines you’ll be required? How often you’ll be using the machine? Do you need a tablet counting machine for a short-term or long-term project? The answer to the above question will help the vendor to offer the best solution for your situation.

Ⅷ.When do you require to put it into production?

If you require a tablet counting machine- whether for an ongoing production line or just starting up the project; your vendor will consider this factor.
Because manufacturers need to offer equipment to enhance production capacity and fulfill your demand. Whatever the background for procuring a new counting machine, the vendor activities must be cleared before initiating the production line, such as:

Sourcing
Required documents such as IQ, OQ, PQ
Facility measurement
Installation, commissioning
Training
Support

Conclusion

8 questions to answer before requesting a tablet counting machine hold all important aspects that help you to learn before purchasing a new one. What else should you look for?

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