Discover how a top pharmaceutical company automated the slow, unsafe and expensive
process of capsule filling for their pre-clinical trials.

The main goals of pre-clinical studies are to determine a product’s ultimate safety profile.
Studies involve in vitro and in vivo experiments, through dynamic weighing, using wideranging
doses of the study drug to obtain preliminary data.

Depending on the nature of drug and test subject, new pharmaceuticals are often administered
via gelatine capsules, where the fill weight of each capsule must be accurately
calculated and prepared according to the test object’s weight. This involves
manually weighing in highly potent, hazardous substances precisely with a spatula.

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