Pharmaceutical and chemical industry
Automatic sorting line for laboratory samples
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Decuna delivered to a laboratory as a "turn-key" installation an automatic sorting line for milk samples. The project was managed end-to-end, from requirements capture, desing, manufacturing, integration and commissioning, including robot tooling desing and robot integration.
The sorting line is multi-purpose:
- first of all, the samples need to be placed on plastic pucks, so that they can be conveyed
- data acqusition is needed, reading the barcode on every sample and introducing the data in the system
- finally, the samples are grouped by test type, unloaded from the pucks into the racks
Bacteriological milk analysis automation
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Decuna automated the milk sampling for plate culture with existing equipment, implying an important cost save for the laboratory.
The racks with milk samples are loaded on the left side of the machine by the operators. The samples are conveyed to the centre, so that the pipette rack prepares the plates for culture.
Once the culture samples are taken, the samples are transferred to the right side of the machine, ready to be unloaded.
Both milk samples and culture plates are identified with a barcode. Severar barcode readers were placed to read the data in the barcodes. A computer stores the barcode data in a database and matches them, so that total traceability can be guaranteed in the sampling process.
In case of a positive analysis, the software can inmediately track:
- where the original sample is (if a cross-check is required)
- the farm where the sample was produced
- the animal that originated the sample
Temperature control software for pharmaceutical warehouse according to GMPs
As a part of a global process reform in a biopharmaceutical producer, Decuna implemented software for HVAC temperature control of the warehouse zone.
The software was developed for different Rockwell PLCs, strictly aligned with common practices in the pharmaceutical industry, such as GMP/GAMP5®. The software deployment was successfully coordinated with other ongoing reforms in the plant.
