Best Practice High Precision, hygienic design weighing solution impresses the pharmaceutical industry Various installation heights, compliance with hygienic design directives, total weighing reliability, and reproducible weighing solution results presented a difficult task for the plant manufacturer Pharmatec. The pharmaceutical manufacturer Pharmatec GmbH tasked Minebea Intec with the installation of six vessel scales in its production process for liquid medicines. The application was carried out based on the premise of observing a hygienically clean production environment while achieving precise measurement results. Liquid medicines are produced in the customer's plant in Bahrain, which means special standards in terms of measurement accuracy, hygiene and above all, reproducibility are required. ■ Weighing module Novego ■ Weight indicator X3 with ProfiNet interface ■ High process reliability and precision ■ High insensitivity to transverse forces ■ Hygienic design ensures efficient cleaning processes ■ High resistance against cleaning agents and corrosion Pharmatec GmbH is part of Robert Bosch Packaging Technology GmbH and is the competence centre for pharmaceutical process systems in the group. The company is a technology leader in the sector of plant manufacturing for the production of liquid substances and medicines.

Project goal and implementation The plan was to build a plant for the production of a medicine in the Kingdom of Bahrain. The plant manufacturer Pharmatec won the tender, but faced a challenging task: the smallest possible quantities had to be accurately dosed from tanks, which had a capacity of several tonnes, to the millilitre. Not only highprecision dosing measurements, but also reliable reproducibility of the measurement results had to be guaranteed. Further criteria included the special insensitivity to transverse forces and the hygienic design of the weighing module. In a production plant...