With specialized medical procedures and new advances in technology, the medical devices industry is a burgeoning market. Many different types of medical manufacturers, from small job shops to big pharmaceutical manufacturing companies, help keep the medical device industry innovating and growing by supplying the products and parts needed. However, medical equipment items and devices are evaluated using higher standards to meet a more stringent set of regulations. Therefore, safety and consistency are key to manufacturing medical supplies and equipment for the products and parts that are in demand.
As the global leader in automation, FANUC has a wide range of medical device manufacturing solutions to help you overcome the barriers and risks to entering and staying in the medical equipment and supply manufacturing industry!
Implants or surgical devices that will enter human bodies require specific, bio-safe materials, such as stainless steel & medical-grade plastic. For medical supply manufacturing, FANUC ROBODRILL is capable of machining a wide range of medical supply materials including stainless steel, aluminum, carbon and even ceramic to an incredible degree of accuracy.
FANUC collaborative and industrial robots handle loading, barcode verification, storage, and retrieval of custom orthodontic aligners within an automated ASRS.
Video courtesy of APT
FANUC M‑10iD and LR Mate robots handle and sort research tubes, moving containers from conveyors into assigned rack positions.
Video courtesy of Big Sky Engineering Inc.
Vision inspects medical device components as FANUC SR‑3iA and SR‑6iA robots handle tray loading, part transfer, and reject segregation.
Video courtesy of McAlister Design & Automation
FANUC SCARA and delta robots handle diagnostic slides, printing pouch data and forming, filling, and sealing pouches automatically.
Video courtesy of ATC Automation Simi Valley
An automated medical device assembly cell uses multiple FANUC SR‑3iA SCARA robots and an 18‑station dial for assembly, inspection, and unloading.
Video courtesy of Integrion Automation
A medical device adhesive cell uses vision‑guided robotics to accurately apply and UV‑cure adhesive along a device mounted on a rotating mandrel.
Video courtesy of RND Automation
A tray fill system uses multiple FANUC robots to pick liquid‑filled bags, load moving trays, palletize full trays, and recirculate empty trays.
Video courtesy of Simplimatic Automation Inc.
FANUC CNC Systems provide reliability needed for machining medical parts that call for complex contouring, requiring complex contouring with no trace of surface defects. FANUC CNC Systems are a great fit for this type of precision machining as they can consistently execute the tight tolerances. Plus, our series of controls, 30i-B Plus, have been optimized for 5-axis machining, which is critical to producing the required geometries and high-quality finishes.
Additionally, our high performance servo motors and spindle motors provide the reliability and dependability needed to minimize your unplanned downtime.
Due to the high-level of customization involved in medical parts, they typically are produced in low-volume, high mix production runs where flexibility and quick changeovers are critical. FANUC robots are easy to operate and provide complete flexibility thanks to a range of application-specific options and straightforward integration.
Production cells built around FANUC CNC machines provide a simple way of adding flexibility and cutting costs. Benefitting from a small footprint, FANUC's LR Mate Series robots - with their lighter payload capacities - are ideally suited to tending work of this kind.
FANUC’s automation provides the platform needed for safe and clean environments in manufacturing and packaging medical equipment. Depalletizing, loading, line charging or thermo forming your packaging – all common tasks in the medical device manufacturing industry – can easily be automated.
The DR-3iB/6 STAINLESS features a fully enclosed stainless steel body that is resistant to the chemicals and high pressure/temperatures required in strict wash down environments found in the healthcare, pharmaceutical, protein, cosmetics, bakery and dairy industries. Rated IP69K, it meets USDA and FDA food safety standards, and sets a new benchmark for robotic handling in terms of payload, speed, reach and sanitation.
Equipped with iRVision and 3D Area Sensor, FANUC robots will pick, sort, place and arrange products on a moving conveyor. This makes automating during assembly easy; or when ready to ship, a FANUC industrial robot with a robotic vision system and quick-change gripper can simultaneously pack multiple products in a variety of container or box types for delivery.
To reduce manual processes, FANUC’s expanding line of collaborative robots can work alongside your employees to take over tedious, repetitive tasks, improving job set up time and consistency of your medical equipment production. Plus, FANUC’s collaborative robots are easy to program and can be seamlessly integrated into any medical manufacturing process without the need for barriers.
Automating end-of-line processes, such as wrapping, labelling, packing and palletizing, can help reduce strenuous and repetitive manual labor often seen in manufacturing medical supplies and devices. Delta robots are the perfect choice for picking, sorting, inspecting, placing and inserting parts, even at high speed on moving conveyors.
Whether it's medical equipment or carton labelling, every stage of the medical supply manufacturing process - from picking, orienting, placing to adding labels and sealing - can be completed by robots, such as the light and compact, FANUC LR Mate Series.
FANUC clean room robots are specifically designed to work in medical device manufacturing environments where strict requirements are needed. Our clean room robots were built to meet the standard requirements (IP67 standard) of highly demanding lab and medical device environments - with no compromise of robot speed and repeatability. Based on a slim, entirely encapsulated design, our clean room robots reach high flexibility levels, adding versatility to their ability to perform many types of automated applications within compact cells. FANUC clean room robots can achieve Clean room Class ISO 5, and have a much higher reliability than manual applications. For more information about our clean room robots contact our sales team today.
Additive manufacturing has enabled new advances in the medical device industry, but the CNC will ensure success.
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FANUC CRX‑5iA with 3D vision identifies, picks, scans, uncaps, and sorts randomly oriented medical vials, streamlining preparation for lab processing.
Video courtesy of Big Sky Engineering Inc.
A robotic lab system automates sample processing with centrifuge tending, pipetting, vortexing, and sample transfer using FANUC robots.
Video courtesy of Isthmus Engineering & Manufacturing
Additive manufacturing has enabled new advances in the medical device industry, but the CNC will ensure success.
A diagnostics manufacturer reached out to ESS Technologies to build filling systems with automated cap torque for manufacturing COVID-19 test kits.
When a manufacturer of personal production equipment needed to ramp up production of respirators to aid in the COVID-19 fight, PaR Systems stepped up.
