Automation of Medical Devices

Eching-Munich / Germany, June 2010 - HEKUMAs high speed molding automation systems for the plastics industry and specifically for Medical Device manufacturing often include up- and downstream production steps such as 100% visual product inspection, ultrasonic welding or packaging. Turnkey systems for high volume production of cuvettes, pipette tips, Petri dishes and other consumables are typical applications as well as systems for wells, micro plates, inhalers and other medical devises. Our expertise focuses around precision and high speed insert, takeout and handling of the product, often in clean room environments.

Not all disposables are produced by relatively standardized automation solutions like pipette tips, wells or Petri dishes. If overmolding of needles is required, filter membranes have to be applied or scales have to be marked, HEKUMA benefits not only from its long-time experience in medical technology, but also from systems manufactured for the automotive industry, consumer goods sector or in packaging technology. Those fields often demand sophisticated insert technology as well as complex assembly technologies for multiple parts. With HEKUMAs latest drive technology and highly innovative, weight-optimized take-out grippers, HEKUMAs side entry robot reaches an acceleration of up to 10G. Now take-out times below 0.4 seconds are easily possible even for larger products such as long pipette tips and comparable devices. HEKUMA also offers turn key solutions for 100% quality control including complex high speed vision inspection systems as well as full packing lines for the product.

HEKUMA offers to support its customers with the often complex and laborious validation and DQ, IQ, OQ, PQ qualification documentation, or carries out these processes completely on request. HEKUMAs aim is to ensure efficient ROI and most flexible machine design in combination with speed and reliability.