What is the principle of tablets counting machine?

Today, in order to pack their products, most Pharmaceutical companies rely on slat, vibratory or rotary wheel technologies. Although these machines defer from one another in their counting method and speed, the main similarity lays in the fact that each machine counts one tablet at a time.

Vibratory Feed tablet counters, also known as 'Electronic vibratory', use feeding channels in which the tablets align in one form, passing through the scanning area one by one. This technology, although being flexible to changes in the tablet types, requires large standing area, and is difficult to maintain.

Using a rotary wheel combines both cavities and a track system. Reaching the desired tablet count per bottle requires the present of track quantity with accordance to the required number of tablets per battle, therefore this type of machine is dramatically larger than other counting machines, and requires large surface place.
The slat counter, however, uses special cavities in order to count the tablets. This technology is relatively faster than the electronic vibratory, however, as each cavity is set to match specific tablet type, changing between tablet requires cavities changing, therefore although the counting procedure can be done quickly, the necessity of changing cavities results in long and complicated procedures.

At 2012 an Israeli company called DATA Detection Technologies developed the ICU Tablet Counter, using advanced property owned real time image processing technology we managed to develop and implement bulk tablet counting.

Instead of using a narrow track which conveys one tablet at a time due to past scanning limitations, DATA's image processing technology enables wide track counting of multiple objects at once, eliminating the need for separating the tablets before counting. enabling for the first time bulk tablet/capsule counting with 3 times the output per footprint.