A growing containment portfolio and strong partnerships are the basis for solutions and innovations that Bosch can provide to their customers.
Bosch and the contract packager Excella in Germany have formed a strategic partnership in which both will benefit from each other’s years of expertise. Bosch provides systems design expertise while Excella provides real world capsule filling experience. Together they will help each other improve their business.
Track and trace your inventory with this coding and verification system from Bosch. This system uses 2-D matrix bar codes and alpha numeric printing to provide a traceable system for inventory management.
This is a tip for GKF 1200 / 1500 & DMW 1500 / 2000 capsule fillers.
The springs on the upper segment carriers can easily be installed incorrectly, resulting in premature failure. An illustration of the correct and incorrect orientation of these springs is below. Or, click this link to an informational flyer.
Here is a technical tip for properly aligning the segment turret and the dosing turret with respect to each other, resulting in proper transfer station alignment.
Whenever you need to re-align the segment turret because of removal for maintenance or because of a crash, the most accurate method involves using special transfer station alignment pins available from Bosch (see info below). The importance of proper transfer station alignment, is that all other alignments use this as a reference point. Aligning the segment turret by “eye balling” the closing or ejection pins in the center of the segments will get you close, but not perfect. …more
A Preventive Maintenance Agreement ensures that appropriate periodic maintenance activities are carried out at the right time. This does not replace the ongoing maintenance by your own staff, but complements it with expert insight and ongoing knowledge transfer to plant mechanics and operators. …more
By Dave Bethel,
Bosch Packaging Services
Alignment of the upper to lower segments is critical for proper capsule separation. Poor capsule separation results in lower yields, which influence your bottom line.
One aspect of alignment that is commonly overlooked is the parallelism of the upper and lower segments on all of the GKF’s, and the center to center of the lower segment carriers on the newer GKF’s.
At Bosch Packaging Services we understand the importance of a good preventative maintenance program. Such a program requires the routine replacement of certain wear parts. We have identified select bearings, seals and parts which we recommend be replaced in a preventative maintenance program for the GKF 400/700, DMW 700 encapsulation machines. …more
Bosch Packaging Services offers an empty capsule conveyor that will automatically keep your GKF capsule hopper full during production. The conveyor is constructed of 304 stainless steel and is fully GMP compliant.
The conveyor is shown this PDF file.
Please feel free to contact us at 763-424-4700 with inquiries.
Bosch Packaging Services has developed two different GKF cleaning station kits. One kit is an upgrade for the GKF 2000 & GKF 2500 models that improves the effectiveness of the factory installed cleaning station. The other kit is a low cost simple cleaning station that can be easily added to older GKF 1200 & GKF 1500 models that do not currently have a factory installed cleaning station. …more
Bosch Packaging Services has developed a kit to upgrade older GKF 1200 & GKF 1500 models from the fixed bronze guide ring to the new modern aluminum guide ring design.
Please click on this link for an informational flyer on this substantial upgrade.
