APC-12 Automatic Electronic Counting Machine
High-Speed 12-Channel Precision for Professional Bottling Lines
The APC-12 is a heavy-duty, 12-channel electronic counting system designed for high-speed pharmaceutical and nutraceutical production. By expanding the feeding surface to 12 independent vibrating tracks, it delivers significantly higher throughput without sacrificing the ≥99.9% counting accuracy AIPAK is known for. It is the ideal core component for fully automated bottling lines requiring relentless reliability and rapid output.
Ultra-High Throughput: 12-channel synchronized feeding delivers up to 70 bottles/min, optimized for high-volume industrial demands.
≥99.9% Counting Precision: Advanced infrared sensor array with intelligent algorithms eliminates errors from dust or overlapping products.
Dual-Dust Compensation: Engineered with specialized self-cleaning sensor windows to maintain consistent accuracy in high-dust environments.
99.9% Efficiency Rate: Intelligent “No Bottle-No Count” logic and synchronized gate control ensure flawless bottling with zero product spillage.
One-to-One Photoelectric Detection System
Dedicated Processing for Zero-Error Logic Unlike conventional systems that share a single processor, our “One-to-One” architecture assigns an independent, high-speed detection unit to each channel. This ensures micro-second response times and individual data verification for every tablet. By isolating the signal for each track, we eliminate cross-interference, ensuring ≥99.9% precision even at peak industrial speeds.
Integrated Detection & Cylinder Pushing Module
Perfect Millisecond Synchronization The core counting head features a modular design that physically integrates the photoelectric sensors with the cylinder-driven pushing unit. This “Closed-Loop” synchronization ensures the discharge gate reacts at the exact instant the count is reached. This eliminates “trailing” tablets and prevents over-filling, ensuring flawless batch consistency.
Fully Enclosed Vibrating Track Design
Patented Dust Shielding & GMP Hygiene To master the challenges of high-dust environments (like herbal or uncoated tablets), our vibrating tracks utilize a fully enclosed structural design. This patented enclosure shields the product flow from airborne contaminants and prevents fine powder from settling on sensitive electronics, significantly extending the time between cleaning cycles while maintaining strict GMP purity.
Next-Generation Heavy-Duty Platform Structure
Unshakeable Stability for 9am to 11pm Eastern, Monday to Friday Operation. The APC-12/8 is built on a newly engineered industrial platform with a reinforced chassis. This high-mass structure absorbs micro-vibrations from the electromagnetic plates, ensuring that the machine remains perfectly stable during long-term, high-speed runs. This “Zero-Vibration” base is the secret to our sensors’ long-term calibration stability.
Tool-Less Sleeve-Type Filling Hopper
Rapid Changeover & Zero-Spillage Loading Our innovative “Sleeve-Type” hopper design allows for instant, tool-less disassembly. The sleeve interface ensures a perfectly centered product drop into the bottles of varying diameters, preventing bottlenecks and spillages. It simplifies the deep-cleaning process, allowing operators to switch between different product sizes in record time.
Pro-face Professional PLC & HMI
Industry-Leading Intelligence & Data Integrity Equipped with the world-renowned Pro-face control system, the APC series offers an ultra-intuitive 10-inch touchscreen interface. It supports multi-level user access, comprehensive audit trails, and stores up to 100+ complex product recipes. The Pro-face ecosystem ensures global compatibility and seamless integration into your factory’s centralized MES.
12-Channel High-Speed Counting: Expanded vibrating tracks ensure maximum product separation and faster filling cycles for tablets and capsules.
Dual-Dust Compensation Technology: Patented infrared sensor algorithm maintains ≥99.9% precision even in high-dust herbal or chemical environments.
3-Stage Vibration Separation: Multi-level electromagnetic plates ensure perfect product singulation, preventing errors from overlapping items.
Tool-Less Rapid Changeover: Modular, “Easy-Clean” design allows for a full product switch and deep cleaning in under 20 minutes without tools.
Intelligent Bottle Management: Integrated “No Bottle – No Count” and “Jam Protection” sensors prevent product spillage and line downtime.
Full GMP Ready: Constructed with premium SS 316L contact parts and an advanced PLC system for comprehensive data logging.
| Feature | APC-12 Specifications |
| Number of Channels | 12 Channels |
| Counting Speed | 30 – 70 bottles/min (Based on 60-count) |
| Applicable Products | Tablets, Capsules, Softgels, Pills, Candies |
| Tablet Size Range | Φ3 mm – 25 mm |
| Counting Accuracy | ≥ 99.9% |
| Control System | PLC & 10-inch Color Touchscreen |
| Construction Material | Stainless Steel 304 / 316L (Contact Parts) |
Why Choose AIPAK？
Compliance You Can Document
Every AIPAK machine is built EU GMP design requirements. Product-contact parts are 316L stainless steel. We support FAT, SAT, and a full documentation package for your qualification.
Decades of Engineering Expertise
Over 20 years building capsule, tablet, and powder handling equipment. We start from your dosage form, powder flow behaviour, and target output — then specify the machine, tooling, and change parts to match. You get a solution, not a catalogue pick.
Support That Keeps the Line Running
Downtime costs more than the machine. Our engineers run remote diagnostics by video call across North American time zones, and travel on site for installation, commissioning, and operator training when your line requires it.
Factory-Direct, Not a Trading Company
You buy from the plant that builds the machine. That means direct pricing with no middleman markup, direct access to our engineering team for custom modifications, and one accountable party for warranty and spare parts.
Ideal Applications & Industries
APC-12 Automatic Tablet Counting Machine FAQ
Speed without accuracy is useless in pharmaceuticals. The APC-12 manages this by distributing the product volume across 50% more tracks than standard 8-channel models. This allows each individual track to run at a lower, controlled vibration speed while still achieving a higher total output. Combined with our high-speed PLC processing (micro-second response), every tablet is scanned and verified without the “sensor lag” common in lower-end high-speed machines.
Quite the opposite. We’ve optimized the APC-12 for “Fast-Track Maintenance.” The entire 12-channel vibration assembly and the injection-molded drop tubes are modular. Even with more channels, the tool-less disassembly design ensures you can strip the machine down for a full GMP-grade deep clean in under 25 minutes. This ensures that the jump in productivity doesn’t come at the cost of excessive downtime.
Static is a common issue with plastic capsules and certain coated tablets. The APC-12 can be equipped with an Integrated Ionizing Air Bar (optional) and uses specialized anti-static SS 316L surfaces. This neutralizes static charges as the product flows through the 12 channels, ensuring that tablets don’t “clump” and that dust doesn’t cling to the sensor windows, maintaining a smooth, continuous flow.
In high-speed counting, consistency is everything. Each of the three vibration stages (feeding, separating, and discharging) is independently controlled via the HMI. This allows you to fine-tune the “product curtain” across all 12 channels. It ensures that even if the hopper is full, the pressure on the final counting stage remains constant, preventing overlapping products (piggybacking) from reaching the sensors.
Yes. The APC-12 is designed to be the “Master” or a “Smart Slave” in a fully automated line. It features standard industrial communication protocols (Modbus/Ethernet) and an adjustable-speed conveyor system with dual-point bottle gating. It seamlessly syncs with upstream and downstream equipment, ensuring that the entire line pauses or speeds up based on the counter’s real-time performance.
High-speed lines produce more friction, and thus more dust. The APC-12 features an Enhanced Dust Extraction Network with multiple vacuum ports strategically placed at the end of the vibrating tracks. Combined with our Dual-Dust Compensation algorithm, the machine can self-adjust sensor sensitivity in real-time, allowing you to run full shifts without stopping for manual sensor wiping.
It features a multi-level password system, comprehensive audit trails (recording who changed what setting and when), and the ability to export production reports directly to your central server. This level of data transparency is essential for the high-volume manufacturers that the APC-12 is built for.
Our system uses ultra-fast response sensors at the intake. If a gap of even a single bottle is detected at speeds of 70 bottles/min, the pneumatic “Flapper Gate” reacts instantly to hold the count. Once the next bottle is in position, it releases the precise count. This ensures zero product spillage even during erratic bottle feeding from an unscrambler.
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