The Company philosophy/mission consists in guaranteeing quality drug treatment at affordable prices to people all over the world in full respect of sustainability.

Mr. Skourlas, what is the purpose of the new PLANETA machine?

The selection of the PLANETA model is a balance among output, performance, and set-up. The competition within the pharmaceutical sector is high especially for the generic companies like us, where we are having a lot of products with medium batch sizes. PLANETA model is offering this combination.

What are the key factors that brought you to select an MG2 machine?

First, Medochemie has been an MG2 customer for 25 years with two G37/N machines, which are still showing good performance. The continuous motion of encapsulation against the intermittent motion provides the necessary sustainability on the weight variation and better control on the synchronisation of the different modules.

You appreciated particularly the new HMI – can you explain why?

B&R HMI screen: A very friendly HMI screen very well structured according to the access level, and the flexibility is necessary to face the difficulties that can occurred during the production process.
Personally, I consider it as a state-of-Art HMI screen. At first the 3D machine layout appears and when you select a sector the respective parameters are shown.

Another aspect that you liked is the set of Reports provided by the machine. Are they in line with what is required by your QA and SOPs?

The batch reports are in line with what currently requested from the cGMP guidelines and provide all the necessary information. What I liked the most was not only the Gaussian curve of the weight variation but the information regarding the performance of a specific batch, Productivity Analysis and Statistics.
The conclusion here is that the software has been developed not to satisfy the quality attributes from the documentation point of view only, but also the production needs and the metrics which are necessary for a production manager.

What about the documentation. Did it comply with your expectations?

The documentation was so well-structured that it is like reading a story, which makes you read and learn more and more about it. The description is very clear way, and I can say that I have known how the machine is working and I have understood each parameter even before seeing the machine. A few questions only for clarification purposes have been necessary to understand with high confidence the machine operation.
The flow of the documentation and the content of each document not to be mixed with other contents is the key element to have a very well-explained documentation. In addition, for such a technological machine the functionalities are explained in a very simple way, which means that the person who wrote them and the person who developed this machine are passionate engineers with high sense of engineering.

Finally, people are a truly important ingredient to get success in a project. What did you most appreciate about MG2 people?

About the people from MG2, I can only express my appreciation to them and my respect. I would like to share some more words. They know and hope we will keep working together for many years in the future.