Robotic machines check the boxes for pharmaceutical manufacturer

摘要

AA Robotics is helping Boehringer Ingelheim to speed up production and improve its quality control process by supplying six robotic vision inspection machines to assist in the manufacture of pharmaceutical products. Boehringer Ingelheim, which can trace is origins to 1885 when Albert Boehringer began making tartaric acid salts in Ingelheim, Germany, now employs the latest technology in the manufacture of pharmaceutical and healthcare products. The process, for which AA Robotics has provided an automatic solution, involves the inspection of compartments in packaging boxes. The boxes are used to transport vials containing liquid drugs between production and packing. Once the vials have been removed from the compartments, the boxes are returned to the production process for refilling. Ensuring that the box compartments are empty requires a visual check. This visual check is now conducted by an automated robotic process on each of the six production lines.