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Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals & Lab Automation

Improve product quality and throughput in biotech and pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals & Lab Automation

Lab automation uses technology to automate repetitive laboratory tasks and processes, ranging from simple instruments to complex robotic systems. It aims to improve accuracy, precision, and throughput, reduce errors and variability, and free up scientists’ time. Challenges include environmental constraints, complex technologies, integration with existing equipment, and cost. Mecademic offers affordable and precise lab automation solutions with benefits like compact footprint, ease of use, equipment interoperability, and reduced maintenance. Examples of lab automation systems include sample handling, microplate handling and tending to high-throughput platforms.

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Why choose Mecademic for robotic lab automation?

01 Handle repetitive tasks with precision

When dealing with sensitive operations, minimizing human error is a high priority to avoid extra costs and potential delays. Companies can avoid such errors and improve productivity by working with reliable lab automation robots. Mecademic robot arms are the most precise on the market, making them ideal for maximizing consistency while saving operator time on repetitive tasks.

02 Make the most of small work spaces

Reducing space consumption in expensive laboratory and pharma environments is a frequent challenge in lab automation. Our robots’ tiny size and ability to be mounted in different orientations allow users to easily fit several robots into any installation. As such, Mecademic robot users can maximize throughput by replicating compact robot cells within a reduced footprint.

03 Achieve cleanliness and avoid human contamination

Mecademic robot arms are clean by design and free from particle generators or belts. With speed reducers that are sealed and lubricated for life, the robots can be used in quarantined areas where human access is limited. They are commonly applied in highly sensitive operations and environments (including clean room and sterile applications). We also offer third-party testing to verify our robots’ ISO cleanroom class compliance.

04 Improve equipment interoperability

One of the main challenges in lab automation is ensuring that multiple pieces of equipment speak the right language to one another and the user. Lab automators often struggle to configure every major automation component to work with life science equipment and build the interfaces connecting them. With Mecademic’s plug-and-work robot arms, users spend less time on integration, manipulation, and maintenance, opening more opportunities for data analysis and innovation.

Choose the right Mecademic robot for your lab automation project

SCARA Robot

If your application contains small parts presented on horizontal surfaces, and if the parts can be inserted without reorienting them about non-vertical axes, then our SCARA robot is the perfect candidate for your robotic automated assembly application.

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Meca500 Robot

In some automated assembly scenarios, our Meca500 robot arm is a better fit. Choose the six-axis robot if:

your application involves working with parts that are presented in different orientations (such as in 3D bin picking) or that need to be reoriented about non-vertical axes;
small tilting motions are required during the fitting process, even when parts theoretically remain horizontal;
your application does not have a horizontal mounting surface;
a tool turret end effector is used.

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Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals & Lab Automation

Improve product quality and throughput in biotech and pharmaceutical manufacturing.