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Chemical and pharma industrial automation

With the lifecycles on medical and cosmetic products seeming to constantly shrink but the demand for them on the rise, pharma automation provides manufacturers with the agility needed to keep up. Cobots are frequently used throughout the industry to tend machines and conveyors, precisely assemble devices and products, and kit and package items into blister packs, cartons, or pallets ready for distribution.

Optima Robotics has kept pace with the industry’s constant evolution through the development of flexible solutions that provide manufacturers with the precision and speed they need. Our robots have been deployed in laboratory environments and factories around the world to help automate their processes while adhering to strict quality control and contamination standards.

Cobots are revolutionizing pharma and chemical industry automation. Discover how roboticspharmaceutical automation companies like ours can do the same for your business today.

Overview
Advantages
Applications

When it comes to the chemical and pharmaceuticals industry, you generally have hours or possibly days to churn out products – not weeks, as you would probably prefer. Cobots have gained popularity in chemical and pharmaceutical laboratory settings due to their flexibility and ability to work closely with human operators.

A pharma robot can help to reduce the risk of human contamination in clean laboratory environments and in potentially sensitive processes. They can also relieve workers of the material handling burden in particularly dusty, loud, and high-vibration operations – which helps to protect them from harm, as well as frees them up to move onto higher-value tasks.

Cobots are commonly used in cosmetics manufacturing, medical device manufacturing, end-of-line packaging and palletising, and lab automation (such as sample analysis).

The implementation of a pharma automation offers many advantages, including:

Ability to complement human labour
Improves worker safety by taking over repetitive and dangerous tasks
Reduces the risk of contamination
Increases the productivity and efficiency of production processes
Speeds up production processes
Accelerate production output while maintaining strict product quality standards
Quickly programmed to handle different tasks, allowing pharma robots to operate across multiple production lines and products
Can be outfitted with sensors and cameras to take precise measurements and conduct quality checks

Chemical and pharmaceutical robots have many important applications throughout the industry, including laboratory automation, quality inspection, material handling, and dispensing. Some of the most common areas that they’re deployed in include:

Assembly
Many simple assembly tasks, like injection molding and pick and place, are monotonous and repetitive. These sorts of tasks can be automated with a pharmaceutical robot to free workers up to do other things.

Packaging
Cobots are being used to automate key end-of-line processes, such as palletising and blister packaging. They streamline the packaging of medicines, cosmetics, and personal care products, minimising downtime.

Quality Control
This is of the utmost importance in the chemical and pharmaceuticals industry, as even the smallest contaminant can pose a real risk to humans, animals, and the environment. A pharma robot can eliminate the human error component.