Two major design directions for the future of medicine plate packaging machines: human-machine interface and control system

In the process of drug production, in order to minimize the pollution caused by manual operations and reduce labor costs, the drug plate packaging machine has played a significant role. The medicine plate packaging machine is a type of packaging machinery mainly suitable for the pharmaceutical industry, including medicine plates, oral liquids, ampoules, penicillin bottles, etc. In addition, the medicine plate packaging machine is also widely used in industries such as food, daily chemical, hardware, automotive parts, and plastics.

The author has learned that in general, the medicine board packaging function automatically completes the folding of instructions, opening of paper boxes, packaging of items, printing of batch numbers, and sealing of boxes. With the improvement of technology in the pharmaceutical machinery industry and the deepening of equipment automation, intelligence, and humanization concepts, the future development of drug plate packaging machines has attracted industry attention. The author will analyze the development direction of the drug plate packaging machine from two aspects: the design of the human-machine interface and the control system.

Human-computer interface design promotes the high-speed, automated, and user-friendly development of medicine plate packaging machines

A friendly human-machine interface is a necessary factor for every device. For the medicine plate packaging machine, the design of the human-machine interface should not only reflect automatic intelligence, but also consider humanization. Because human-machine interfaces are the intermediary between users and computers, achieving effective information exchange between humans is the main purpose. Therefore, designers need to conduct comprehensive and careful research on the user login interface, start interface, automatic operation interface, manual operation interface, parameter setting interface, alarm interface, and data report of the medicine plate packaging machine.

Taking the manual operation interface as an example, the human-machine interface of a high-quality medicine plate packaging machine generally involves three types of operations, including operation control, forced operation, and normal operation. The author understands that operation control operations mainly involve the selection of starting, stopping, and jogging of the medicine plate packaging machine; Compulsory operations such as strong suction medicine boxes, strong suction medicine boards, etc; However, operations such as medication boxes and instructions belong to the normal category. These operational situations are all the contents that designers need to cover in designing manual operation interfaces.

If the enterprise has a good design for the human-machine interface of the medicine plate packaging machine, it can actually achieve the requirements of high-speed packaging speed, automated operation, and user-friendly interface to a certain extent. It can also allow operators to monitor in real-time and conduct dynamic management. If more companies attach importance to this design, the automation, intelligence, and humanization level of the medicine plate packaging machine will be improved, and pharmaceutical companies will also gain considerable benefits.

The design of the control system makes the medicine board packaging machine more flexible and maintainable

The author understands that there are four main requirements for the control system of the medicine plate packaging machine. Firstly, the automatic detection function. Even if the equipment is more automated and intelligent, there may still be errors, and drugs are used to treat diseases and save people. Therefore, in terms of automatic detection function, the medicine plate packaging machine needs to achieve the effect of no medicine plate without instructions, no suction box without instructions, no paper box alarm or shutdown, and alarm or shutdown if the product is not in place.

Secondly, the human-machine interface. This aspect has been explained in detail above, and in summary, it is necessary to achieve effective information exchange between humans and computers, and to be able to conduct data collection