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A hospital drug distribution system for efficiently distributing solid medicinal units to hundreds of patients comprises subsystems for placing trays on a conveyor, placing cups thereon, labeling the cups, conveying the cups under drug tubes, sealing the cups, unloading the trays, and coordinating t

A hospital drug distribution system for efficiently distributing solid medicinal units to hundreds of patients comprises subsystems for placing trays on a conveyor, placing cups thereon, labeling the cups, conveying the cups under drug tubes, sealing the cups, unloading the trays, and coordinating the overall activities of the system. Medicinal units are stored in long, thin vertical tubes positioned side-by-side, and are dispensed by valves disposed at the bottom of each tube. The rows of tubes are suspended over a conveying means transporting individual medication cups. The cups are arranged on trays on the conveying means in single file. The computer-controlled conveying means proceeds in a step-and-stop fashion, such that each cup stops briefly beneath each drug tube. When a cup completes its journey beneath the drug tubes, it contains the drugs needed by the patient to which it is assigned. Barcode readers at each valve scan the approaching cup to determine if drugs from the attached tube should be dispensed into it. The system is modular, as additional modules including multiple tubes can be added or removed as needed. When a tube becomes empty, it is discarded or sent to a drug refilling center for restocking. The hospital orders from the refilling center all needed tubes daily, preferably automatically over a computer network by a computer that tracks drug inventory levels. Replacement tubes are delivered overnight or within hours, depending upon the need. The system preferably operates in manual mode for special one-time orders.

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A hospital drug distribution system for efficiently distributing solid medicinal units to hundreds of patients comprises subsystems for placing trays on a conveyor, placing cups thereon, labeling the cups, conveying the cups under drug tubes, sealing the cups, unloading the trays, and coordinating t

A hospital drug distribution system for efficiently distributing solid medicinal units to hundreds of patients comprises subsystems for placing trays on a conveyor, placing cups thereon, labeling the cups, conveying the cups under drug tubes, sealing the cups, unloading the trays, and coordinating the overall activities of the system. Medicinal units are stored in long, thin vertical tubes positioned side-by-side, and are dispensed by valves disposed at the bottom of each tube. The rows of tubes are suspended over a conveying means transporting individual medication cups. The cups are arranged on trays on the conveying means in single file. The computer-controlled conveying means proceeds in a step-and-stop fashion, such that each cup stops briefly beneath each drug tube. When a cup completes its journey beneath the drug tubes, it contains the drugs needed by the patient to which it is assigned. Barcode readers at each valve scan the approaching cup to determine if drugs from the attached tube should be dispensed into it. The system is modular, as additional modules including multiple tubes can be added or removed as needed. When a tube becomes empty, it is discarded or sent to a drug refilling center for restocking. The hospital orders from the refilling center all needed tubes daily, preferably automatically over a computer network by a computer that tracks drug inventory levels. Replacement tubes are delivered overnight or within hours, depending upon the need. The system preferably operates in manual mode for special one-time orders. generating said master program; a third input data generator associated with said slave machine, operable to generate images under selected illumination conditions of reference sites on said slave object; and a comparative corrector associated with said slave machine, coupled to said illumination selector and said third input data generator, operable to compare said newly generated alignment reference images with said retrieved master alignment references, to compensate any deviation found, and to re-compute said slave object point locations based on said retrieved relationships between said reference locations and said action locations, whereby said operational program of said slave machine is re-computed for working on said action sites of said slave objects. 3. A computerized system for re-creating the illumination conditions for a slave circuit on a slave bonder, comprising: a master teacher operable to define images of illuminated alignment references of a master circuit on a master bonder and to store the data related to said images and the image locations in a master file; a slave regenerator, coupled to said master file, operable to regenerate said master reference image data so that the illumination conditions of said slave bonder, as based on images, are recreated; and a slave corrector, coupled to said slave regenerator, operable to produce images of said slave circuit references under the newly recreated illumination conditions and to correct aligning and bonding for said slave bonder. 4. A computerized system for re-creating illumination conditions in a slave bonder prepared to attach connecting bonds onto bond pads of a slave integrated circuit, comprising: a first input data generator, associated with a master bonder, operable to collect data from a master integrated circuit which is related in geometry to said slave integrated circuit, comprising geometrical information of bond pads and images of alignment references; an analysis generator, associated with said master bonder and coupled to said first input data generator, operable to construct a network of relationships for said master bonder between said images of said alignment references and said geometrical information of said bond pads; a master file, coupled to said analysis generator, operable to store said network of relationships, said geometrical information and said images as a master bond program; a retriever, associated with said slave bonder and coupled to said master file, operable to retrieve said master bond program; a second input data generator associated with said slave bonder, operable to generate images of said alignment references on said slave integrated circuit under various illumination conditions; an illumination selector, associated with said slave bonder and coupled to said retriever and said second input data generator, operable to recreate illumination conditions equivalent to the ones used when generating said master program; a third input data generator associated with said slave bonder, operable to generate images under selected illumination conditions of alignment references on said slave circuit; and a comparative corrector associated with said slave bonder, coupled to said illumination selector and said third input data generator, operable to compare said newly generated alignment reference images with said retrieved master alignment references, to compensate any deviation found and to re-compute said slave circuit point locations based on said retrieved relationships between said reference locations and said bond locations, whereby said bond program of said slave bonder is re-computed for bonding on said bond pads of said slave circuit. 5. The system according to claim 4 wherein said first input data generator comprises: a first organizer operable to select alignment reference image points and sizes, to collect the x-y locations correlated to said points, and to store the x-y locations and size da