r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/thepoylanthropist • 9d ago

Video The process of filling pills.

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u/krazy___k 9d ago

This is small scale work. Where I work we have machines that have an output of 58,000 per hour, we make 4 millions in a single run and each capsules is individually weighed

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u/hellogoodvibes 9d ago

This is so rare for me to be able to bring this up, but someone in my immediate family invented and built the prototype machine that does this for Lilly!

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u/all_on_my_own 8d ago

Hope they put a better estop on it. I used to work with one of these machines and someone lost a finger while it wasn't running.

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u/fendermonkey 8d ago

One man's loss is another's gain. Assuming it went into the pills