Advancing with automation and with another award
The fun never stops. Last year, our Speed Bin Picker won ISPE’s "Robotics Application of the Year Award" (RAYA) in the "Fill & Finish" category. And this year, we kicked it up another notch and collaborated again with ESSERT Robotics to present the next innovation – the automated tube palletizer. This impressive system promptly earned another RAYA Award, this time in the "Packaging & Final Assembly" category.
A versatile system for securely packaging valuable medicines, the robot picks up tubs of filled syringes at the filling machine outlet and automatically stacks them into a pallet box. The tube palletizer carefully and efficiently adds two supportive layers in between each layer of vial before placing the next one on top.
The jury was particularly impressed by the prototype’s compact size, which allows the system to be repositioned as needed. While the robot performs the repetitive tasks, workers are free to focus on other essential work.
The palletizer’s high degree of automation means that only one person is needed to operate it. The robot is designed to immediately stop and go into safety mode when it comes in contact with another person or obstacle. It is but one of the many ways employees benefit from the system, which is a testament to our ongoing commitment to embrace innovative automation and drive improvements in process efficiency.
Four additional automated tube palletizers will soon follow. They will ensure safety for our employees and reliability for patients around the world for a long time to come.
You can find an overview of the awards we have received in recent years here.
