TRAPO | ApplicAtion exAmples in the cleAn-Room domAin

TRAPO AG SuPPly-chAin SOluTiOnS FOR PhARmAcEuTicAl And mEdicinE TEchnOlOGy

Conveying TeChnology | RoboTiCs | AuTomATion

Conveying TeChnology | RoBoTiCs | AuTomATion

Whether straight or curvy – horizontal or vertical: In the clean-room domain, attentive handling of sensitive material, conveying competence in a sterile environment and knowledge of manufacturing tasks in clean-room classes ISO 4 to ISO 10 are crucial.

In manufacturing under ultra-clean production condi-tions, know-how, experience and future-oriented tech-nology count. Appropriately sophisticated, as a sys-tems provider TRAPO AG adapts conveying, handling and packing of precision parts to the technical medical needs of the high-level, individual demands of manu-facturing in high-care rooms.

Trust the sound sector knowledge of TRAPO AG in the domains of conveying technology, robotic systems and automation systems for the implementation of your individual, project-specific clean-room production.

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Your contact:

Jörg Thomas Head of Sales

Fon +49 2863 2005-119

› JThomas@trapo.de

TRAPO AG

Industriestraße 148712 Gescher-Hochmoor Germany

› www.trapo.de

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Note regarding the following pages:

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Conveying TeChnology | RoBoTiCs | AuTomATion

Filling

The cartridges filled with granules are received downstream of the on-site filling system utilizing toothed-belt conveyor, portal- and twin-axis robots.

Conveying to the sterilizer

The cartridges are individually placed on the toothed-belt timed conveyor. A portal extracts the cartridges and places them in rows in prepared trays. These are fed to the sterilizer. Alternatively a bypass makes manual feed/removal of cartridges possible. A shuttle car takes care of stack onward transport.

Conveying technology in the sterilizer

The tray stack is fed to the sterilizer. As the gate opens a telescopic arm slides the tray into the sterilizer, submerges, the gate closes, the sterilizing procedure begins. In reverse order, removal of the sterile cartridges takes place.

Onward conveying from the sterilizer

The telescopic slider draws the trays from the sterilizer and buffers them on an accumula-ting conveyor. From there the path for the cartridges leads via a trackswitch for the desta-cking process. In this application solution a robot picks the cartridge, its gripper places it at 90° in a pocket-type conveyor.

Packing

Then the individual cartridges are removed from the tray with a portal or robot, as an op-tion they are placed on a conveyor or placed in a slide and fed to the vertical tubular bag machine, filled and closed. Packing and preparation for dispatch follow. .

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Preparing, conveying and packing of filter cartridges.

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Robot-special application in clean-room class 10.000.

spindling out hollow filaments The hollow filaments are spindled out in bundles of up to two met-res in length.

Transfer cutting deviceThe raw material is extracted from the rotating spindle machine and forwarded to the cutting de-vice employing TRAPO conveying technology.

Transfer robotFilter transfer and onward conveying to TRAPO loading robot.

LoadingStainless steel extraction cases are loaded with filters for transfer to the extraction device.

sterile extraction process | Drying Sterile extraction process withsubsequent drying. Conveying to the process machi-nery is performed by TRAPOconveying technology.

Unloading | Return conveying The unloading robot unloads thewashed and dried filters from the extraction cases which are conveyed back to the startingpoint.

Filling | evacuationIn parallel, cases at the ready are filled and the emptied cases are brought back once again to the loading robot. The onward conveying of the packed cases to dispatch follows.

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Deliver Needle and thread are delivered. For the needle-thread combinations, various small and large formats are provided.

Removal | PackingTRAPO AG feeds the needle-thread combination of the endless aluminium foil which is furnished with a trough. A second aluminium foil is placed over it, then sealed and perforated.

Fit wire-mesh cratesThe packed needle-thread combinations are placed in stackable wire mesh boxes.

sterilizingThe stacked boxes with the needle-thread combinations are sterilized.

Removal | Onward transport After the sterilization process the trays (needle-thread combinations packed in aluminium foil) are removed from the wire mesh boxes and fed to the on-site packing section.

Packing After onward transport, the provision of the sealed, sterile needle-thread combinations joins for packaging and fully-automatic dispatch.

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Filling Filling of the infusion bottles ta-kes place externally.

HandlingIndividual gripper solution makes it possible to optimize removal by robot of bottles arriving on the conveyor belt. These are placed in a prepared sterilization tray.

Load sterilizerA second robot picks the traysand places them in a rotary sterilizer.

sterilizeInfusion bottles are sterilized in autoclaves.

Removal | Onward transport Teamwork: The robot which has just filled the trays now removes the trays and prepares them for unloading. The second robot re-moves the now sterile infusion bottles and places them on a con-veyor belt for onward transport.

Drying Sterile solutions pass through the drying tunnel.

Testing High-voltage testing is performed to check for bottle damage or pos-sible foreign particles inside.

Onward transport | Checking During TRAPO quality controls,comparing label, load number andbest before date with a host ERP-System precedes labelling.Afterwards a scanner checks pre-sence and readability of the labels. If a fault occurs the bottle is rejec-ted via a slider.

Packing Via a pocket-type conveyor, sterile solutions are set upright and pa-cked comprising bottles, instructi-on leaflet and cardboard box. Here TRAPO AG also performs quality control, employing scale and sen-sor technology and documents the sealing of the carton which is sub-sequently palletized.

seCuRe TRApo hAndling foR infusion boTTles Optimum operation thanks to individual gripper solution.

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