A cartoning description that skips the missing-leaflet check fails open: the carton can look finished while the information that should travel with the dose is absent. The cost is a released carton whose defect is discovered only at dispensing.
Cartoning, on this page, means forming a carton, placing the dose pack and the leaflet, closing the carton, and sending a failed check out of the good lane. Those are questions a requirement list should force into the open. They are not a measured cycle time.
The checks, without a speed
Someone specifying a carton station has to say what “present” means for the carton blank, the leaflet and the dose pack, and what happens when one of them is missing. A rejection path that rejoins the good lane without a record is not a check. This page does not call any arrangement zero-defect. A check reduces the chance that a known gap ships. It does not prove that every gap was imagined in advance.
What the research index did not support
On 14 October 2026 the local research index was queried for pharmaceutical cartoning and leaflet insertion. It returned vendor marketing pages. The stored text for one of those pages was site navigation, not a specification, and the full-text reader was unavailable. No model number, cartons-per-minute figure or changeover time from those pages is repeated here.
The carton is the secondary layer in Primary, secondary and tertiary packaging. Film outside that carton is overwrapping. The checks above are rows on the requirement checklist.
How this page was put together
The step list is a set of specification questions. Machine performance numbers were withheld because a readable specification was not retrieved. The WHO medicines page is context for why a leaflet and identity matter, not a cartoner manual.