Method and system for providing ophthalmic lenses in lens receptacles

Method for providing a predetermined number of ophthalmic lenses (5), in particular contact lenses such as soft contact lenses, manufactured in an automated lens manufacturing process in a plurality of lens receptacles (2) arranged on one or more lens receptacle carriers (1), the method comprising the steps of:

• drawing a first number of primary packages (3), each supposed to contain one ophthalmic lens (5) of a same lot of ophthalmic lenses manufactured in the automated lens manufacturing process, and each comprising a machine-readable unique lens identifier (31) allocated to manufacturing data of the ophthalmic lens (5) supposed to be contained therein,
• selecting from the first number of primary packages (3) a second number of primary packages (3) as sample primary packages (3), each sample primary package (3) actually containing one ophthalmic lens (5), the second number of primary packages (3) corresponding to the predetermined number of ophthalmic lenses (5) to be provided,
• reading the machine-readable unique lens identifier (31) of each sample primary package (3),
• reading a machine-readable unique carrier identifier (13) of each of the one or more lens receptacle carriers (1),
• transferring each ophthalmic lens (5) from the respective sample primary package (3) to a different lens receptacle (2) of the plurality of lens receptacles (2) arranged at a respective receptacle location on the one or more lens receptacle carriers (1), and
• for each transferred ophthalmic lens (5), assigning the unique lens identifier (31) and the receptacle location on the lens receptacle carrier (1) to the unique carrier identifier (13) of the one or more lens receptacle carriers (1), and storing said assignment.