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From parts sorting, product assembly and light machine-tending, to quality inspection and packaging. Environmental and product sampling, to seed laboratory automation, kitting logistics, UV-C disinfection and cleaning processes.
Why the Life Sciences sector embraces robotics:
Stringent regulations mean medical device manufacturers must reproduce identical products, under rigorous cleanroom conditions, within reduced timeframes. Keeping pace with innovation, manufacturing agility and adaptability, aligned with changing product iterations, is essential.
Personalised medicines and medical devices are prohibitively expensive. Automation reduces production costs delivering critical, life enhancing treatments as widely as possible. Consider personalised cell and gene therapy, implants and prosthetics – high variety, small batch production requiring highly flexible, robotic manufacturing processes.
The benefits increased manufacturing efficiencies afford through robotic automation include:
The clear shift within Life-Sciences is towards robotics. Traditional, manual operations are being evaluated for automation, and greenfield plant designs incorporate automation as standard.
Pharmaceutical and biologics companies are investing in robotics, many with dedicated teams further exploring automation opportunities. Those above-mentioned benefits mean robots are increasingly being incorporated into applications as technologies evolve and demand increases, such as for new medicines and treatments. Notably those arising from COVID-19. Robotic automation is integral to sustaining the growth and evolution of Life Sciences – an important sector for economic growth, which in 2019 generated a turnover in excess of €80bn.
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