Production engineering R&D of a novel rotary configuration form fill sealing packaging system

填充式封口是医疗器械/食品行业的一种重要包装方法。现有的填表机器是线性配置，通常占用40平方米的工作楼面空间，每月需要生产超过200,000份表格，以确保资本投资得到充分利用。申请人认为，他们的新型旋转格式机有市场，其工作占地面积小于6平方米。这一解决方案将为医疗器械生产商提供一种比外包医疗包装服务更便宜、自营的替代方案。预测的市场机会是至少70台旋转填表机，3年内销售额约为520万GB。申请人(Riverside Medical)是一名成熟的医疗包装专家，并根据他们对市场的工作知识创建了旋转表格填写系统的新概念。Riverside已经进行了早期原型旋转系统的初步开发工作。然而，Riverside现在面临许多技术障碍(高速胶片处理、传动系统、软件、包装验证、系统可靠性和设计健壮性)，需要全面的研究和开发来解决。所附项目旨在促进河滨公司与关键部件专家的合作，开发先进的生产前表格填写系统。该项目将以旋转系统的包装试验结束，以确定可靠性并生产足够的包装样品以确定其质量和完整性。

Form fill sealing is an important packaging method in the medical device/food sector. Existing form fill machines are in a linear configuration, typically take up 40 m2 of working floorspace and require the production of over 200,000 items per month to ensure the capital investment is fully utilised. The applicants believe that there is a market for their novel rotary format machine which possesses a working footprint of less than 6 m2. This solution will provide medical device producers with a cheaper, self-operated alternative to outsourced medical packaging services. The forecasted market opportunity is for at least 70 rotary form fill machines with a sales value in the order of £5.2m over a 3 year timeframe. The applicant (Riverside Medical) is an established specialist in medical packaging and has created the novel concept for the rotary form fill system based on their working knowledge of the market. Riverside has conducted initial development work on an early stage prototype rotary system. However, Riverside now face a number of technical hurdles (high speed film handling, drivetrain, software, packaging validation, system reliability & design robustness) that require comprehensive research & development to resolve. The enclosed project proposes to facilitate the collaboration of Riverside with key component specialists to develop an advanced pre-production form fill system. The project will conclude with packing trials of the rotary system to determine reliability and produce sufficient package samples to determine its quality and integrity.