New capsule filling machine FEC20

Fette Com­pact­ing is pre­sent­ing its new FEC20 cap­sule fill­ing machine at Achema in Frank­furt. As the small­er ver­sion of the FEC40, it now makes its inno­v­a­tive tech­nol­o­gy avail­able for medi­um-sized out­put vol­umes of up to 200,000 cap­sules per hour.
The FEC20 is direct­ly derived from the FEC40 whose inno­v­a­tive ideas Fette Com­pact­ing is nowl­aunch­ing for the first time in the form of a sin­gle rotary press sin­gle dis­charge cap­sule filler. Tech­no­log­i­cal­ly, the FEC20 and FEC40 com­ple­ment each oth­er per­fect­ly: both use the same for­mat parts there­by facil­i­tat­ing exchanges between machines.
Anoth­er rev­o­lu­tion­ary fea­ture is rep­re­sent­ed by the patent­ed tamp­ing pin sta­tion assem­bly sys­tem enabling users to change dos­ing meth­ods, prod­ucts and batch­es in no time. When addi­tion­al pre-fit­ted tamp­ing pin sta­tions are used, the machine is ready for pro­duc­tion with­in an extreme­ly short times­pan. Fur­ther­more, up to three pel­let sta­tions can be installed in the machine. “The fact that we can dis­man­tle and clean the fill­ing sta­tions out­side the machine has enabled us to sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduce con­ver­sion and clean­ing times. This ensures that the FEC20 is ful­ly oper­a­tional again quick­ly”, empha­sizes Kruse.

Intuitive operation

One par­tic­u­lar fea­ture of the FEC20 is its 19” touch­screen HMI. The user inter­face offers a per­ma­nent overview of all process and qual­i­ty para­me­ters and is based on the same log­ic which has already been tried and test­ed in the FE series tablet press­es offered by Fette Com­pact­ing. The data­base con­tains all for­mu­la­tions and user process para­me­ters while the sys­tem auto­mat­i­cal­ly and imme­di­ate­ly exam­ines each entry for consistency.
The sys­tem also con­tin­u­ous­ly mea­sures the fill­ing lev­els of all cap­sule and prod­uct con­tain­ers dur­ing ongo­ing pro­duc­tion, as well as visu­al­iz­ing the cor­re­spond­ing infor­ma­tion for the user. All batch­es are mon­i­tored, logged and saved in full. Exten­sive rights man­age­ment enables users to assign cer­tain func­tions to var­i­ous users. Upon con­clu­sion of the pro­duc­tion process, each indi­vid­ual pro­duc­tion step can be eval­u­at­ed via an event log.