Pharmaceutical & medical
moulding machine when that individual plastic part was made. That is where connectivity to a Management Executive System (MES) is vital. The importance of Sumitomo (SHI)
Demag’s strategic decision to push ahead with new and further developments in its all- electric IntElect machine series a few years ago has been clearly beneficial during the pandemic. “This foresight has enabled moulders in hygiene sensitive markets to react to different demands, including heightened demand for oxygen sensors, blood monitoring equipment and facemasks, as well as test kits,” states Flowers.
CatChing fresh outbreaks UK scientists and ministers have already initiated programs to ensure future infectious outbreaks can be tested and contained at home. During its COVID-19 peak, the UK was running around 25 million weekly lateral flow diagnostic home tests. “This pandemic has transformed the face of diagnostic testing. We are already anticipating high demand for tools that can reliably distinguish between a common cold, a strain of coronavirus or flu. Concurrently, the cycle of British Medtech and genome sequencing innovation has accelerated,” comments Flowers. High profile acquisitions of diagnostics
companies, IPO listings, advances in liquid blood testing technology provide further assurance that the diagnostics market is on the cusp of another huge growth curve believes Flowers.
With the UK medical device market currently the third largest in Europe and sixth largest in the world, there are exciting opportunities ahead for British moulders operating in the high tech medical device and diagnostics product development and production space, he adds. Moreover, the shift in the delivery of
traditional institutional healthcare services to homecare as the country attempts to alleviate the economic burden on the NHS and social care will inevitably lead to the development of new devices. To support these advances and in order to meet the explicit quality management and validation ISO 13485 standards for medical devices, Sumitomo (SHI) Demag has introduced new machine user parameters, digital quality control and KPI analytics into its IntElect S medical production cell. A system showcased at Fakuma 2021 demonstrated the advantage of keeping processes within certain bandwidths and illustrated how cycle and time-dependent data can be collected via the machine interface and mapped via an App-based dashboard. Initially, these can be used for data server storage, the creation of KPI dashboards, the visualisation of live data, and to display historical data and trend analysis. Additionally, a troubleshooting guide helps with solving and evaluating process deviations.
Sumitomo (SHI) Demag
uk.sumitomo-shi-demag.eu
The Rotronic Universal Monitoring System – RMS
Monitoring environmental conditions in any industry requires a fully integrated continuous monitoring system. The modular Rotronic Monitoring System – RMS is the perfect solution. It provides installation flexibility and full data availability, anywhere, and on a variety of devices. Rotronic can meet all your requirements, incorporating multiple sensors for parameters on a secure network. We can service the entire system.
www.rotronic.co.uk/rms
ROTRONIC Instruments (UK) Ltd, Crompton Fields, Crawley, West Sussex RH10 9EE T: 01293 571000,
instruments@rotronic.co.uk Instrumentation Monthly January 2022
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