An Inside Look at Maximizing Throughput, Speed, and Efficiency with Robotics in Medical Device Manufacturing

Recently I entered our stainless-steel tube processing area, which looks completely different from the way it did 10 years ago. The entire room used to be filled with people who were running machines, inspecting components, and working on changeovers. The company was a different place back then and was only starting to embrace automated work cells. Fast forward to today. When I walked into that room, I was greeted by one of our setup technicians sitting on a chair in the corner. I joked with him, “Don’t you have any work to do?” He replied, “Take a look around, you see all those green lights? If they are green, then I am doing my job.” There was no one else in the room but us, yet all of the machines were running. That was a powerful moment for me, and it was then that I realized we had transitioned almost every processing machine in that room to some form of automation.