Automation for the medical industry

Day in, day out, robots provide a safe and reliable way of loading and unloading your machines. For the lighter payloads often found in the medical industry, the extremely dexterous LR Mate 200iC series makes an ideal choice.

Equipped with iRVision and 3D Area Sensor, FANUC robots will pick, sort, place and orientate products on a moving conveyor for assembly or packing. Set-up  is easy using FANUC’s handy iPendant interface with smart interference avoidance technology ensuring the robot is never off target.

Linear bearings are essential components of the rotary drives within various medical devices and machines. Producing them requires extremely high-levels of repeatable precision. FANUC ROBODRILL is capable of machining a wide range of materials including stainless steel, aluminium, carbon and even ceramic to an incredible degree of accuracy.

Production cells built around CNC machines provide a simple way of adding flexibility and cutting costs. Capable of producing every imaginable kind of plastic medical part, ROBOSHOT S-2000i/300B makes the perfect centrepiece to a cell of this kind. Benefitting from a small footprint, M-10 tending robots with their lighter payload capacities are ideally suited to tending work of this kind.

With ROBOSHOT’s smart AI Metering Control function compensating for variations in viscosity consistent results are ensured whatever the process. What is more, because ROBOSHOT is equipped with 6 different screws as standard, manufacturers can easily alter production to accommodate different types of product.

In the medical industry ensuring high standards of quality provides the key to success. CNC machining high-precision medical devices such as components for pumps, not only ensures repeatable precision but guarantees quality by reducing defective parts to close to zero.

FANUC's high-precision cutting systems are capable of producing the most incredible shapes and structures. Setting new standards in precision, FANUC's 31iB CNC is ideally suited to these applications. Combined with FANUC's ALPHA i servo motors and integrated PMC and I/O Link, it delivers the ultimate in speed and accuracy.

For full transparency and superior quality management, ROBOSHOT comes with up to 16 multi cavity pressure channels, cavity balance monitoring and historical data collection. To save money, ensure easier operation and minimise external components, monitoring is done via the CNC. You just select the required part quality.

Equipped with vision systems, delta robots are the perfect choice for picking, sorting, inspecting, placing and inserting parts. This can be done at high speed on moving conveyors.

Clean room robots equipped with cameras, sensors and vision systems are capable of handling sensitive and delicate materials with incredible accuracy and dexterity.

"Our goal is fully automated production. A first step in this is to fit Robodrills with the automatically opening doors and FANUC robots to load and unload them."
Pim Lüth, Production Manager PM Bearings
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