Robotic Systems in Healthcare
Sealed tooling and non-marking contact faces for laboratories and device assembly, where the wash-down schedule decides the material before anything else.
Sealed tooling and non-marking contact faces for laboratories and device assembly, where the wash-down schedule decides the material before anything else.
The station handles small, light, expensive parts in a room where the air is controlled. Throughput is rarely the problem. Contamination, traceability and consistency are.
Typical work is device assembly, tray loading and sample handling, where the same movement has to happen identically every time and be recorded when it does.
The wash-down schedule comes first. It decides the seal rating, the finish on every exposed surface, and which contact material can be used at all.
After that, the standard the room is audited to. What we build has to survive the cleaning regime and leave nothing behind, which rules out most of the elastomers used elsewhere in this list.
Parts are light, so payload is almost never the constraint. Repeatability and non-marking contact are.
Sealed tooling on a compact arm, with contact faces in a material chosen against your cleaning agent rather than against ours.
Every unit ships with its material declaration alongside the ISO 10218 file, so the validation pack is complete on the day it arrives instead of six weeks later.
What engineers ask us whatever floor they run.
Can one supplier cover several of our plants?
Yes, and it usually costs less. The same tooling drawing runs at every site, and spares come from one part number rather than five.
Who writes the safety assessment?
We do, for the area the work alters rather than for the robot alone. It is written before the installation window opens and handed over with the drawings.
Do you visit the site before quoting?
For a station or a cell, yes. Fixing points, services and signal routes are surveyed before anything is cut, and the survey is not invoiced separately.
What happens if our part changes next year?
Contact faces are the part that changes. A new geometry usually means a new set of faces cut against it, not a new tool.
Can you work to our plant's own standard?
Tell us which standard the plant is audited to and the assessment is written against it. ISO 10218 is the baseline here, not the ceiling.
Do you work outside these five industries?
Yes. These five are where most of our work sits, but the question we ask is about the part and the rate, not the sector it belongs to.