Fully Automated Solutions for Pharmaceutical Company
Challenge
- The current process of manually unpacking components for feeding them to the assembly line caused risks associated with human touchpoints.
- They needed conceptual design of an automated components’ unpacking system for feeding them to an assembly line to eliminate human touchpoints and improve hygiene
Our Solutions
- Examined current state and desired future state – upstream and downstream activities, deriving specifications for the future state automated line.
- Identified off-the-shelf solutions, developed custom designs for realizing the future state and for removal of packing materials from the line.
- Identified and integrated AGVs for component transportation
- Integrated all the above solutions into a conceptual design.
- Validated conceptual design through trials.
- Provided budgetary estimates for design and manufacturing of conceptual design.
Results
- Just-In-Time supply to the assembly line.
- Less than a 12-month ROI
- Automated handling of packing material for compacting and disposal