Selecting Robots For Use In Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Robots can carry out pharmaceutical manufacturing tasks faster, more consistently and more cost-effectively than manual labor. As significant as these benefits are, however, they are far outweighed by the fact that every activity that a robot performs is verifiable. Not only does the robot perform its tasks exactly as it is told to, everything it does can be thoroughly documented.
When a human technician places a drug sample into an oven, sets the oven’s temperature to a particular temperature, sets a timer for so many minutes, then removes the sample, questions can always remain: Was the temperature correctly set? Was the timer correctly set? Was the sample actually removed at the specified time?
With a robot, not only are such tasks carried out with an extremely high degree of repeatability, but every parameter in the process can be automatically monitored, recorded and verified.
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