Pharmaceutical Industry

Sensing Systems serves the Pharmaceutical Industry with measurement products and services.  Our products and services fulfill a wide variety of measurement requirements for monitoring and control of research and production processes. 

Sensing Systems designs and manufactures force and torque sensors specifically designed for pharmaceutical applications.  The sensors are used to monitor and control Research and Development, Scale-up and Production activities in Tablet Presses, Mixers, and Roller Compactors.  We have developed relationships with most tablet press manufacturers to design and produce sensors that monitor and control tablet press operations.  The same is true of mixers and roller compactor manufacturers.

Our sensors are direct replacements of existing tablet press, mixer and roller compactor components with the ability to measure load and/or torque during normal operation.  We often participate in research projects where special sensors are developed to measure a variable of interest.  Sensors for very specific requirements such as punch displacement and radial wall pressure have evolved from these efforts.

We manufacture NIST traceable calibration kits to verify and periodically calibrate all tablet press and mixer sensors for compliance with cGMP requirements.  The following are the most common sensors used with tablet presses, mixers and roller compactors by the pharmaceutical industry.

  • Main Compression
  • Pre-compression
  • Ejection
  • Take Off (Knock Off)
  • Torque sensors
  • Calibration kits
  • Compression load cells
  • Electronics and Signal Conditioning for all sensors

For more detailed information please link to Pharmaceutical Sensors.

All of our sensors are identical in form and function to the part they replace with the added benefit of incorporating a load and/or torque measurement.  In addition, they can be interfaced to any data acquisition equipment available in the market. 

Tablet presses, mixers and roller compactors are manufactured by several companies.  Each model has its own geometry and set of parts requiring that sensors be custom made for each machine.  Sensing Systems maintains a large database of designs for the majority of manufacturers with new designs being continuously added.


Available Designs

We maintain a large pharmaceutical sensors database of designs for most commercially available tablet presses.  If your sensor is not in our database contact us and we will manufacture it for you.  We will incorporate existing and proven sensing elements into the geometry required by your tablet press.  All that we require is to borrow the part or a current drawing of the component the sensor will replace (i.e. compression pin, ejection cam, etc.). 

Delivery

Standard delivery is two to three weeks after receipt of order for sensors in our database.  For new sensors delivery is three to four weeks after receipt of order.  Faster delivery times are accommodated when delivery is critical to our customer’s production activities.

Services

Sensing Systems performs a wide variety of services in-house and at our customers’ facilities including all of the following:

All of these services find applications in the Pharmaceutical Industry.

Technical Assistance

Please contact our sales department to order sensors in our database or contact our engineers to discuss new designs.  Please contact our engineers to discuss our Services. 

Contact Us now to discuss your application.