QUALITY ASSURANCE
Integrated solution
Rychiger MC 1400 machine platform
boosts quality and keeps contamination in check
Working together with Rockwell Automation, Rychiger reinvented a demanding assembly process for a customer in diagnostics and syndromic infectious testing. The duo achieved this by replacing manual processes with a fully automated and fully integrated control and automation solution.
A
ccurate and timely test
the sample is not tainted, spoiled or
This Switzerland-based company is a
results can be the difference
wasted. Crucial to sample delivery is
specialist in the design, development
between life and death
ensuring that everything a patient’s
and fabrication of customer-specific
when dealing with infectious
sample comes into contact with is free
solutions for packaging machines in the
of contamination.
healthcare and food and
diseases. One of the most important advances in modern medicine is swift diagnosis, often via diagnostics.
Previously, a market leader in diagnostics and SIDT (company A)
Thanks to modern reagents and
beverage industries. “We help healthcare providers
relied heavily on manual processes
improve patient care and satisfaction
automated analysis technology,
to manufacture its single-use testing
by providing faster and better results,”
significant advances have been made
cartridges. These closed-system
explains a representative from company
in diagnostics and syndromic infectious
disposable modules contain all the
A. “Our test cartridge solution is the
disease testing (SIDT) over the last
chemistry required to isolate, amplify
standard for syndromic infectious
few decades, allowing rapid disease
and detect nucleic acid from a patient’s
disease diagnostics. Patients and
identification and the earlier
sample for IVD testing.
commencement of life-saving
With any manual
treatments based on
fabrication process
laboratory results.
– especially one that relies heavily
QUALITY-DRIVEN DESIGN
on workers
doctors depend on us to deliver accurate results fast and we value partnerships that allow us to constantly improve our processes and the care we provide to people who need answers.”
– there is a
Like any scientific
possibility for
procedure, the
contaminants
REDUCE VARIABILITY AND BOOST QUALITY
to be
“Our customer’s goal was to fully
process chain is only as strong
introduced.
as its weakest link, which is why the pharmaceutical and life
Manual Ultrasonic welding application on the Rychiger MC 1400
sciences industries are so heavily legislated and quality driven. With infectious diseases, quick and
processes can also influence fabrication quality, repeatability
and yield. It was this drive to boost quality,
automate the cartridge fabrication process while reducing contamination to an absolute minimum,” explains Bruno Lauener, key account manager, healthcare sales at Rychiger. “The solution would need to fully automate the handling of the cartridges to create
accurate results matter. The optimal
throughput and reduce losses that
consistency in the process, reduce
delivery of a patient’s samples is the
prompted the company to approach
potential contamination and increase
most important step to confirm that
Rychiger for an automated solution.
production capacity.”
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| QUARTER 2 2020 | P C Africa
