Sepha Article - BlisterScan is much less expensive than the Blue Dye Test

How to Generate Savings for your Company by Using BlisterScan!

Calculate how much Money your Company Loses with the Blue Dye Test:

The Blue Dye test is a huge waste of your company's money. You have to throw away every tested pack whether or not it fails.

Just imagine - if you use the Blue Dye test on about 20 packs every 15 minutes, you will produce approximately 150,000 blisters per year. If each pack costs more than $1 each to produce, this means your company must be throwing away an incredible $150,000 every year. And that is just on one blister line alone. Now multiply the $150,000 loss by the number of blisterpacking lines you company runs to calculate the total losses.

BUT - Imagine if you had a clean and dry test which was able to protect the blisterpacks from any damage during testing. You could save all of the blisterpacks which don't have leaks and put them back into the blisterpacking line rather than throwing them away.

You would even make savings on the packs which do have leaks. Even if the test discovers a fault in the packaging, the product inside will still be undamaged because it has not been contaminated by liquid. All this product can be deblistered and replaced into the hopper on the blister line for repacking.

Multiply these savings by the number of blister lines you run and you can quickly see how you could revolutionise blisterpacking in your company.

You can Save Costs on your Re-work by Testing every 2 minutes…

The Blue Dye Test is only carried out every 15-minutes because it produces so many waste blisters. Therefore, if a leak is discovered it is entirely possible that every blister that was packed during the 15 minute period since the last test could also be faulty. The entire 15-minute production lot has then to be re-worked (emptied from the blisters and re-packed). Very expensive, if you are not using a SEPHA automatic deblistering machine - the costs of manual deblistering just one lot per day can be as much as $300.

With BlisterScan you can test every 2 minutes. So, even if there is a reject, the rework quantity is much less.

Other Important Savings and Benefits:

Unlike the Blue Dye test, the BlisterScan test can be validated, so the results it produces are totally objective. This also means you don't need staff with special skills to carry out the test.
You can place the BlisterScan right beside the blisterpacker so the blister line operators can test their blisters without the need for extra staff.
You don't waste valuable time in transporting blisters away from the blisterpacking machine to be tested in the laboratory by another method (eg Blue Dye Test) which is unreliable in any case!

The case for having BlisterScan is overwhelming

This exciting development is already revolutionising
quality control for blisters in the pharmaceutical industry.
The largest international pharmaceutical manufacturers have been
quick to install BlisterScan in their plants.

There is no other system like it.