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Authors / Project Group: (Batch 1994-95):
Abstract Pharmaceutical industry is one of the only industries in Pakistan, which is flushing with the passage of time. Reason is very simple -health hazards in the country are ever increasing like any other country of third world. On the other hand, it is also the fact that prices of medicine are growing higher and higher -reason being that most of the raw material for the medicines is imported and becoming more and more expensive with continuous downing of Rupee value. Thus the production costs are very high. Solution to this problem is very obvious: we should develop /acquire raw material from within the country and try to minimize production cost. Automation of any industry always brings production cost down. The question is then why we do not automate our industry in Pakistan. Answer is very simple. If we import automatic industry from abroad, the initial cost of such industry is very high. With availability of cheap labor, our industrialists prefer manual process industry instead of automatic one. But it costs in quality and production level. Now with the restrictions of WIO and ISO 9000 requirements, we would not be able to compete with other developed and developing nations. Until we do not have local process control design engineers who could also implement its design using locally available engineering facilities and components, our industry will be reluctant to automate itself. Only multinational would afford to have automatic plants and industry. At IIEE we are trying to develop trained manpower in the sector of industrial process control engineering, needed for our country. Our group of students of the 8th semester, at IIEE has developed a prototype of a Tablet Filling Station. This can:
We demonstrated that an automatic plant could be developed and implemented by our local students, using locally available components.
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Automatic filling of tablets
