With growing demand of Pharmaceutical products in today’s highly competitive market, improvement in production efficiency has become significant, in addition to capacity enhancement to meet the demand. Production efficiency is critical for the large volume parenteral manufacturing units as it processes higher quantities in limited time. While considering critical process like terminal sterilization of large volume products, it is important that the sterilizer operates with maximum efficiency. One of the contributing factors affecting the efficiency is manual loading and unloading of the product in sterilizer chamber. This consumes substantial amount of time and efforts of operating personnel in the process. Secondly, the sterilizer chamber is usually long (up to 10 meters length), which requires an additional arrangement to push and pull the load into the sterilizer chamber. Furthermore, manual loading & unloading task becomes cumbersome and uncomfortable due to hot condition within the chamber.

The solution is an Automatic Loading and Unloading System (ALUS). Today, conventional mechanical system for Automatic Loading and Unloading is available. The system is designed to reduce the manpower intervention, but it adversely increases other challenges. The conventional system is designed with its components installed partially inside the chamber and partially outside. To integrate the system, sealing arrangement such as mechanical seal or gland packing is provided. This sealing arrangement consist of parts like bearings, oil seal, etc. which demands regular maintenance. Lack of regular maintenance may result into frequent breakdown.