Pharmaceutical packaging workflows

Pharmaceutical packaging workflows

Artwork preparation for digital packaging workflows

Connecting approved artwork, production data, printing, and inspection

Pharmaceutical packaging workflows are becoming increasingly complex. Approved artwork must be combined with production data, printing systems, inspection processes, and enterprise systems such as ERP and MES.

Hapa's digital workflow solutions help standardize these processes, reduce complexity and manual effort while improving workflow consistency, scalability, and readiness for future automation. 

From approved artwork to production

Pharmaceutical packaging workflows require more than approved artwork alone. Production processes also rely on on variable data, serialization information, inspection criteria, and production-specific parameters that must be applied consistently across systems.

As product portfolios grow and packaging operations become increasingly connected, manual processes can add complexity to already challenging production environments.  

A structured workflow helps ensure that approved artwork, production data, printing, and inspection remain aligned while supporting the flexibility required by modern pharmaceutical manufacturing. 

From approved artwork to production
Priiotize Make Ready: artwork preparation for connected packaging workflows

Priiotize Make Ready: artwork preparation for connected packaging workflows

Approved packaging artwork forms the basis for compliant pharmaceutical packaging production. To be used within printing and inspection workflows, it must be enriched with product-specific information  while preserving the integrity of the original validated PDF.

Priiotize Make Ready prepares approved artwork for the downstream process by creating print and inspection templates, defining placeholders for variable data and preparing artwork for use on Hapa printing systems. It also enables integration with ERP, MES, line controllers and other production systems to support a connected packaging workflow.

The original PDF remains unchanged and serves as the single source of truth throughout the process.  By enriching validated artwork rather than modifying it, Make Ready helps reduce artwork preparation effort, remove revalidation activities, and support standardized processes across packaging operations. 

Vision Secure: inspection based on the same artwork source

In many packaging environments, vision systems must first be configured or taught what a correct print result should look like. This setup process can be time-consuming and requires additional manual effort.  

Hapa's digital workflow approach eliminates this step. Thanks to the One-PDF approach, Vision Secure already knows the expected print image and can verify print quality without manual camera teaching. This simplifies setup, reduces process complexity, and helps ensure alignment between approved artwork, printing, and inspection. 

Vision Secure: inspection based on the same artwork source

See digital workflows in action

See how a Hapa customer uses a digital workflow to support a more connected and standardized packaging process. 

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Build a more connected pharma packaging workflow.

Discover how Hapa can help connect approved artwork, production data, printing, and inspection while reducing complexity across pharmaceutical packaging operations. 

Discover how Hapa can help connect approved artwork, production data, printing, and inspection while reducing complexity across pharmaceutical packaging operations.