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Fighting COVID-19
Learn how we can partner together to save lives
COVID-19 drives a need for fast deployment and speed to market, requiring many medical manufacturing companies to look for deep expertise from a system integration partner. To help you gain a competitive advantage during this unprecedented time, our experienced teams of engineers develop solutions and lead projects that integrate automation into the manufacturing, assembly, testing, material handling, and shipping processes of your medical equipment products.
The process of building medical devices, pharmaceutical products, or protective equipment faces even more significant challenges. Not only do manufacturing and material-handling processes need to meet rigorous safety and verification standards, but they also must be fast, efficient, flexible, and accurate to meet increasing demand. Life sciences and medical companies can integrate automation into several phases of their operations, including manufacturing, assembly, packaging, and shipping. Automation streamlines those processes and improves performance in the following areas:
Repeatability and accuracy
JR Automation is here to help with the desperate need for critical COVID-19 medical supplies around the world. We engineer and build automated systems to manufacture protective equipment and devices such as N95 masks, gowns, gloves, hospital beds, diagnostic testing kits, and more. Plus, we have extensive experience with cleanroom environments and high-volume manufacturing with precision and repeatability. JR Automation knows the certifications and validation processes required for the life sciences and medical industries.
JR Automation develops and deploys robotics, vision, and logistics automation quickly. Across multiple sites, our more than 700 engineers source, design, and build your solution simultaneously. We have on-site part fabrication and assembly capabilities. We also specialize in stainless steel product builds and cleanroom product builds. Partner with us, and you can integrate automation into the following product manufacturing assembly, processes, and testing systems:
Life sciences — genome; DNA
Personal protective equipment (PPE)
Surgical PPE and products
Learn more about
how JR Automation has moved quickly to support medical supplies in response to
COVID-19:
COVID-19 increased the demand for fast, quality protective equipment for healthcare organizations and businesses. JR Automation has experience deploying our builds for automated production, assembly, and testing of the following equipment:
Our expertise ensures we can integrate robotics, vision, and logistics automation into your assembly, testing, and material handling of products, including:
Validation
In a fast-paced and heavily-regulated environment, validation ensures the performance of critical processes and systems. We design our services based on industry standards and regulations. Our validation procedures use a risk-based approach, eliminating redundant testing to focus on functionalities that could damage the quality of your finished product. We can approach the validation process using our own documented procedures or yours. As a result, you get customized solutions designed and tested to meet all your needs, your way.
CASE STUDY
Machine Processes Plates to Determine Vaccine Potency
A customer required increased production and potency verification in order to meet rising product demand. The machine had to process plates to prepare for automated vision counting of plaques in order to determine batch potency.
Technical Capabilities Involed:
- vision applications
- software data integration
- material handling solutions
- inspection testing
- dispense applications
CASE STUDY
Three Robots Cooperate to Monitor Test Plates for New Discoveries
A large international drug company needed a high-throughput drug discovery system that could accommodate a multitude of simultaneous processes. It was required to handle microtiter plates with heavy stainless steel lids. Typical robots working in drug discovery were laboratory type robots on long linear tracks. These robots had light payloads, were less than rugged, and slow.
Technical Capabilities Involed:
- software data integration
- robotics integration
- vision applications
- material handling solutions
- dispense applications
- inspection testing
CASE STUDY
Innovative, State-of-the-Art Solution
A JR Automation customer needed a system that could load inline blood filters at a rate fast enough to keep up with an existing vacuum-form packaging machine and with precise orientation for the different parts. Quick tooling changeover was a priority. There were also strict FDA cleanliness guidelines and a tight budget.
Technical Capabilities Involed:
- assembly solutions
- material handling solutions
CASE STUDY
New Automated Solution Increases Output Three Times the Previous Amount
A leading medical devices manufacturer wanted machines to manufacture home dialysis kits for kidney patients.
Production encompassed a series of sub-assembly machines and a final assembly machine to form the finished product. As each machine had to process more than one type of product at any one time, the inline QC system had to be flexible to handle different product models, and highly accurate to ensure that there would not be any error in identifying and sorting the varying products.
Technical Capabilities Involed:
- inspection testing
- assembly solutions
- software data integration
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Project Management
Our Project Execution Process (PEP) uses a proprietary phase gate approach to managing and delivering automation solutions. This advanced methodology keeps our global teams in sync, improves project planning, enables effective scaling, and ensures we're always learning and improving from our experience. Applied alongside our Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) System, this process facilitates effective collaboration and keeps cross-functional product development data unified and integrated into downstream manufacturing systems. Bottom line: we have the people, processes, and systems in place to deliver excellence—every time.