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Apr 2025

How Seal-Sensor PQX Ensures 100% Automated Pouch Seal Integrity

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In the world of packaging, especially in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, maintaining a high level of seal integrity is crucial. A compromised seal can lead to contamination, product spoilage, or even failure to comply with regulatory standards. With increasing demands for efficiency and accuracy, automated pouch seal inspection has become a game-changer. One of the standout solutions in this field is Seal-Sensor PQX, an advanced technology that guarantees 100% automated pouch seal integrity. In this blog, we’ll dive into how Seal-Sensor PQX ensures flawless pouch seal inspection, offering robust seal quality control, and why it’s a vital tool in today’s manufacturing landscape.

Overview of Automated Pouch Seal Inspection

Automated pouch seal inspection systems are designed to monitor the quality of seals on packaging, particularly for flexible pouches. The primary goal is to detect any potential defects in the seal that could jeopardize the integrity of the product inside. Whether it’s nutrition, pharmaceuticals, or medical devices, the seal plays an essential role in preserving freshness, sterility, and product quality.

Manual visual seal inspection is time-consuming and prone to human error, making automated sensory technologies a preferred choice. Automated systems use advanced sensors such as airborne ultrasound to perform a comprehensive assessment of each pouch’s seal. This ensures high consistency, faster throughput, and, most importantly, zero tolerance for compromised seals.

Automated Pouch Seal Inspection Using Seal-Sensor PQX

The Seal-Sensor PQX is an advanced automated pouch seal inspection system by PTI, utilizing airborne ultrasound technology, recognized by the FDA under ASTM Test Method F3004 for seal quality inspection.

Key features include high-speed, inline scanning with rapid linear scans, providing test results in seconds. This ensures real-time seal integrity verification, ideal for industries like food packaging and pharmaceuticals. With its plug-and-play design and compact footprint, the Seal-Sensor PQX integrates seamlessly into existing production lines. The HMI (Human-Machine Interface) offers real-time feedback on seal quality.

Operating at speeds of up to 350 mm/sec, it maintains high throughput without compromising inspection accuracy. A built-in reject chute swiftly removes defective pouches, while a stack light system clearly indicates pass/fail results for efficient quality control.

In the fast-paced world of manufacturing, ensuring the integrity of pouch seals is more critical than ever. Seal-Sensor PQX provides a powerful, automated seal integrity testing solution that guarantees 100% seal integrity inspection. By incorporating advanced sensor technology, real-time analysis, and customizable configurations, it offers a robust method to ensure the highest seal quality, reduce costs, and maintain regulatory compliance. For industries where safety and quality are non-negotiable, Seal-Sensor PQX is an invaluable tool that ensures the best possible packaging outcomes, safeguarding both the product and the consumer.

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10
Nov 2022

An Outline of PTI's Automated Pouch Seal Inspection Solutions

An Outline of PTI's Automated Pouch Seal Inspection Solutions

Seal integrity of pouches is examined to ensure that the packaging provides the necessary product protection. Seal integrity tests are commonly used to evaluate user-friendly sustainable packaging choices. With an increased interest in sustainable packaging, novel structures such as monolayer recyclable flexible packaging are being developed, making it vital to guarantee that the seals for these structures stay strong. Poorly sealed pouches can cause significant issues for pharmaceutical manufacturers. Incorrect seals may cause contamination or product spoilage in addition to product waste. Pouch seal integrity testing is also used to lower the possibility of product recalls. Product recalls can draw the attention of drug safety regulators, leading to fines and penalties. As a result, seal integrity testing is critical to ensuring that such scenarios do not occur. Thus, PTI have developed two effective testing methods for evaluating the integrity of pouch seals.

Automated Pouch Seal Inspection Techniques Offered by PTI:

1. VerPac LPX Technology

The VeriPac LPX series is PTI’s line of fully automated package quality inspection systems for 100% inline testing. VeriPac LPX systems utilize PTI's Vacuum Decay technology, an ASTM Test Method F2338, developed using the VeriPac platform. The Food and Drud Administration (FDA) recognizes the test technique as a consensus standard for package integrity testing, and it is listed in ISO 11607 and USP Chapter 1207> guidelines. The LPX provides a practical and dependable solution to the concerns associated with infrequent testing, allowing process-related quality issues to be identified and remedied sooner rather than later. The VeriPac LPX for flexible packaging allows for continuous testing of pouches, stick packs, sachets, and other flexible packaging types.

The VeriPac LPX has a dynamic robotic design tailored to fit your production requirements. The LPX series are scalable, modular systems designed to satisfy the needs of manufacturing lines.

VeriPac LPX Benefits

  • Automated testing enables the highest level of container quality assurance.
  • Deterministic, quantitative test method.
  • ASTM Test Method F2338 and FDA standard, ISO 11607.
  • Distinct PASS/FAIL results.
  • Highly accurate test results - low false positives and false negatives.
  • High Signal Noise Ratio (SNR) for peak sensitivity and reliability.
  • Non-destructive, non-subjective, no sample preparation.
  • Pick-and-Place option back into the production line.
  • Auto reject option of defects removed from the production line.
  • USP <1207> compliant.

2. Seal-Sensor Technology

Seal-Sensor is an Airborne Ultrasonic technology that inspects the final pouch seal 100% online and non-destructively. Seal-Sensor is a deterministic, quantitative, quick, and dependable approach for inspecting pouch seals for defects. Seal-Sensor detects incomplete seals, partial or weak areas in seals, and a variety of frequent defects in seals that appear visually acceptable but contain problems that impact product quality, value, and shelf-life. A single linear scan (L-Scan) of the pouch seal delivers a pass/fail result as well as quantitative, traceable data in less than one second.

Seal-sensor Benefits

  • Deterministic inspection method producing quantitative results.
  • Non-destructive, non-invasive, no sample preparation.
  • Works for any material and combinations, regardless of color, transparency, print, surface finish and porosity.
  • Can be integrated for 100% online defect detection of the final pouch seal.
  • Repeatable and reliable results.
  • Eliminates subjective, manual vision inspection methods.
  • Economical, cost-effective solution for seal integrity testing the final pouch seal.
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