The impact of automation on cage wash operations

摘要

many institutions face an ever-increasing rodent population in facilitiesadvances in rodent housing equipment allow a greater number of cages to be handled by the same number of care stafflikewise, automation in the cagewash facility has been touted to be the solution to some ergonomic and logistical issues surrounding the processing of the large number of dirty cages generated in facilities with high rodent populationsto assist with the job of scraping and dumping over 20,000 cages each week, we installed a robot on the dirty side of cagewash in two facilities in 2012an assessment was performed to determine the impact of the robot on cage wash operations.