Robotics Solution to Transform Future of Drug Manufacturing
ChargePoint Technology recently unveiled their brand-new, cutting-edge material handling solution at ACHEMA 2024. This innovative system is reflective of the increasing industry efforts to revolutionize safety and efficiency in drug manufacturing.
Hanningfield were pleased to provide our conical mill as part of this demonstration for how robotics are beginning to shape the next era of material handling.
Robotics offers an opportunity to automate repetitive and labour intensive tasks, while also totally removing the operator from the process. This can be particularly beneficial for the handling of potent compounds.
Many new and exciting technological advances are now becoming a reality, creating opportunities to rethink and revamp traditional pharmaceutical manufacturing methods. Hanningfield are proud to be part of these early stages of shifting the industry towards future technologies.
Improving Efficiencies for Pharma Manufacturers
The aim of the new robotics system is to increase productivity for manufacturers who wish to automate their production processes. The approach seeks to mitigate ergonomic and manual handling concerns and reduce the risk of of cross-contamination from operators.
Chris Eccles, CEO of ChargePoint Technology explained “Contained Robotic powder handling is the future of the industry. Recent reports have found that the pharmaceutical robots industry is expected to rise at a compound annual growth rate of 6.7% over the next 10 years and we have already seen many of our customers turning to us for a solution to advance their current production processes”.
“We understand how important speed, quality and safety is to our customers and we will continue to evolve our solutions to provide our customers with the best technology to meet their manufacturing needs”.
Detailed in the video below, the robotic system is shown docking ChargeBottles to the inlet, where connection is made via Split Butterfly Valve.
The outlet container is then removed by robot and docked to a Gerteis Roller Compactor (again connection via Split Butterfly Valve). This loading and unloading sequence is completely automated by robot.
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Chargepoint Technology
ChargePoint Technology is the market leader in powder and liquid containment, and antiseptic transfer valves, providing operator safety and sterility assurance for the pharmaceutical, biotech, chemical, and other process industries. ChargePoint offer containment and antiseptic transfer valves, single-use and fluid storage and management solutions which are essential for the safe transfer of powders and liquids during pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturing.
Hanningfield has partnered with ChargePoint on a number of projects throughout the years where we have been able to combine our range of powder handling equipment with Chargepoint’s high-integrity containment solutions.
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