FORMAX Sin care / Sunscreen

Chemspeed’s FORMAX Skin Care and Sunscreen deck modularity allows the user to execute and perform complex skin and sunscreen formulation workflows in a fully automated way. High quality is assured by e.g. accurate viscosity, pH, temperature and stirring control.

Overview

The FORMAX has the unique capability to exchange robotic tools and therefore change it's functionality on the fly, resulting in:

Many instruments and functionality on one single platform
A cost effective robotic platform with a smart footprint
The robot brings functionalities as dispensing, analytics and actions to the precision formulation vessels
Add solids, powders, liquids, highly viscous materials to the milligram resolution under stirring while the formulation is being processed
Easy programming

FORMAX has up to 24 formulation vessels in 4 formulation modules.
The formulation module is a working entity consisting of 6 individually controlled, high precision formulation workstations. Each workstation with its own vessel / blender, feed vessel and syringe pump can be customized and controlled to match almost any formulation workflow.

Up to 6 formulation vessels / blenders (150 mL volume) with independent stirring, scraping, heating and cooling
Up to 6 feed vessel (50 mL volume) with magnetic stirring and jacket temperature control (up to 90 °C); these can be used e.g. for the preparation of low-viscous pre-mixes
Easy integration of pH probes

A typical FORMAX Skin Care and Sunscreen deck consists of up to 24 precision formulation vessels in 4 formulation modules, 3 overhead gravimetric dispensing robotic tools, a variety of racks with vials, syringes, heated and disposable pre-formulation vessels and much more.

Workflow

FORMAX SKINCARE & SUNSCREEN - Formulation

Migrated workflow: FORMAX SKINCARE & SUNSCREEN - Formulation

Benefits

Decrease in cost per sample up to 90%.
Increase in productivity by a factor of 10.
Up to 24 formulations per run.
Gravimetric dispensing (solids, powders, liquids, highly viscous materials, pastes, creams and waxes) into precision formulation vessels during stirring.
4-Needle Head for volumetric liquid handling and sampling.
The balance moves to the destination, increasing speed and efficiency.
Balance resolution of 0.1 mg or 0.01 mg.
A large dispensing range, from a few mg up to several grams.
Continuous real-time monitoring and control of all formulation parameters, incl.
internal and jacket temperature, shear rate and viscosity, scraping speed, reflux
and pH in an inert atmosphere if desired.
Flexible adjustment of scraper positioning / orientation.
Choice of scraper material e.g. PTFE, PEEK.
Dispensed amount, mixing speed, temperature, time..., and other data are stored in a read only log file.
Easy access to data with a convenient interface to pull results into Excel or virtually any other software.
Interface to DOE / AI.