The invention relates to a method for operating a bagging machine (01) having at least one vibration sensor (15, 18, 19) and a vibration evaluation device (16), wherein airborne and/or structure-borne signals can be measured with the vibration sensor (15, 18, 19), and wherein the measurement signals of the vibration sensor (15, 18, 19) can be evaluated with the vibration evaluation device (16), wherein

a) airborne and/or structure-borne signals produced by the filling material during operation of the bagging machine (01) are measured with the vibration sensor (15, 18, 19) on the format tube (06),

b) the measurement signals of the vibration sensor (15, 18, 19) are evaluated by the vibration evaluation device (16),

c) a function signal is output depending on the evaluation results.

A unit dose container production system (10) is disclosed where a unit dose container (130) is evacuated and thereafter loaded with a radioactive fluid while remaining at a single location. In this regard, the production system (10) uses a first conveyor (12) to sequentially load unit dose containers (130) into an empty container receptacle (24) of a second conveyor (20) at a first location (90). The second conveyor (20) may be operated to dispose a container receptacle (24) at each of the first location (90), a second location (100), and a third location (110). A unit dose container (130) at the second location (100) is evacuated and thereafter loaded with a radioactive fluid, and is thereafter moved to a third location (110) by the second conveyor (20). The unit dose container (130) is removed from the second conveyor (20) at the third location (110), and thereafter the radioactivity content of a unit dose container (130) may be determined, such as at an ionization chamber or the like.

Systems and methods for distributing a filling fluid are discussed. More particularly an exemplary filling system may include a reservoir holding a filling fluid for distribution. The filling system may also include a pump and filling nozzle fluidly coupled to the reservoir. A processor executes a filling module that when executed receives at least one input fluid property of the filling fluid and generates at least one set of operating parameters for controlling operation of the pump during a filling operation based at least in part on the fluid property. The generated set of operating parameters enable control of the pump to distribute the filling fluid through the filling nozzle, such that a fluid interface with a stable resting profile forms in the filling fluid in the filling nozzle adjacent to the nozzle opening after the filling fluid is distributed from the filling nozzle.

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are described for filling packages (112) in a food packaging machine (100) with a food product, wherein the food packaging machine (100) comprises a plurality of sub-systems. One or more local variable values (116) are received, which indicate measurements by the food packaging machine (100) of one or more physical parameters for a local filling sub-system (300). One or more remote variable values (204) are received, which indicate measurements by the food packaging machine (100) of one or more physical parameters for one or remote sub-systems. One or more control parameter values are determined for the local filling sub-system (300) of the food packaging machine (100), by processing the remote (204) and local (116) variable values using a reinforcement learning model (206) and a local control model (210). One or more control parameters of the local filling sub-system (300) are adjusted in accordance with the determined control parameter values. The filling of packages (112) with food product by the food packaging machine (100) is controlled in accordance with the adjusted one or more control parameters.

Various aspects of the subject disclosure relate to a compounder system having a cartridge that includes controllable fluid pathways. The cartridge may include a syringe pump for moving fluid and/or gas, and one or more syringe valves or rotary valves for controlling which of the controllable fluid pathways is open for flow of the fluid and/or gas.

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are described for controlling web tensioning in a food packaging machine comprising a plurality of sub-systems. One or more local variable value are received, which indicate measurements by the food packaging machine of one or more physical parameters for a web tensioning sub-system. One or more remote variable values are received, which indicate measurements by the food packaging machine of one or more physical parameters for one or remote sub-systems. One or more control parameter values are determined for the web tensioning sub-system, by processing the remote and the local variable values using a reinforcement learning model and a local control model. One or more control parameters of the web tensioning sub-system are adjusted in accordance with the determined control parameter values.

A method for closing and securing a safety vacuum packaging in which an object to be secured and a plurality of particles are arranged in an interior space of a container of the safety vacuum packaging. Subsequently, the safety vacuum packaging is vacuumed via a vacuum seal, and the plurality of particles is fixed in a random immobile state. The safety vacuum packaging is closed, and the random immobile state of the particles is captured. The captured random immobile state of the particles is stored for later comparison.

The present invention belongs to the technical field of food processing, and in particular, relates to an adaptive quantitative sub-packaging method for fried rice with multiple side dishes in a central kitchen and an apparatus therefor. The present invention mainly includes self-construction of a key side dish recognition model, self-evaluation of the key side dish recognition model, adaptive quantification of batch fried rice, and the apparatus matched with the three-step operation.

A concentrate filling system includes a solid loader operable to dispense particles through a dispensing end. The system includes a conveyer operable to receive the dispensed particles at a proximal end and further dispense particles at a distal end. The system includes load cell operable to receive a container that receives the dispensed particles. The system includes an injection pump to dispense fluids into the container. The system includes a controller operable to receive data from the load cell indicative of a weight of the particles and/or fluid and send a control signal to the conveyor to adjust the dispensing of the particles and send a control signal to the injection pump. Upon receiving indicative of a predetermined weight of the container, fluid, and particles, the controller is operable to send a control signal to the conveyor and the injection pump to stop dispensing of particles and fluid.

A cleaner assembly for an apparatus for making pouch products includes a cleaner roller and a poker roller. The cleaner roller may counter rotate with a rotatable drum of the apparatus, in contact with an upper surface of a first elastic layer on the rotatable drum, and at a greater tangential speed than at least one surface of an outer circumferential surface of the rotatable drum or an upper surface of the first elastic layer. The poker roller includes projections that are each configured to extend into one or more divots of the rotatable drum. The poker roller may counter rotate with the rotatable drum and at a same tangential speed as the at least one surface such that the projections extend into and out of separate, respective divots of the rotatable drum based on the counter rotation of the poker roller and the rotatable drum.