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providers of laboratory and analysis technology. The company headquarters are located in Waltham, MA, near Boston. Assembly of the new 40-lb (18-kg) incubators was physically very demanding, requiring numerous rotations to cover them


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with heater foils, followed by insulation. Concerned with protect- ing the health of its employees, the company installed ergo- nomic workstations with modular units from Roemheld (Hessian Laubach, Germany) that lift and rotate the incubators during the preassembly process. Roemheld is repre- sented in North America by Carr Lane Roemheld Mfg Co. (Fenton, MO). Heracell Vios incubators are a successor to the top-selling Heracell model, which sold 75,000 units in 15 years. Designed for medical engineering and health research in universities and research laboratories, the incubators are assembled in Thermo Fisher Scientifi c’s plant near Frankfurt, Germany. To prepare production of the new


incubator, Felix Pergande, technical head of production for Thermo Fisher Scientifi c, and Stefan Kämmerer, produc- tion resources engineer, developed a prototype of the assembly workstation in 2013. They then used this to develop a new series production line, which resulted in a “start-up plant” in September 2014. “During this period of about half a


year, we have had the overall responsibili- ty for the incubator production,” Pergan- de said, “from organization and material procurement through to quality assur- ance. We industrialized production in this time. As soon as it is well engineered, we handed it over to the responsible people in the Incubator department.” According to David Vilcek, manager of workholding and assembly for Carr Lane Roemheld Mfg. Co., Thermo Fisher Scientifi c worked with Roemheld in the development of the assembly worksta- tions. Experts in assembly and handling technology. Roemheld has been a supplier and partner in the assembly and handling of laboratory equipment for Thermo Fisher since 2009. “Carr Lane Roemheld’s modular units for assembly and handling consist of numerous modules that provide for


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