Lead
Pot Robotic Handling System
Radiopharmaceutical
Drug within a Vial, housed in a Lead Pot
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Machine Video
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The
special purpose automatic system was designed and manufactured
for the automated handling of lead pots that contained radioactive
vials. TQC were involved from feasibility study through process
validation exercises and then into the full engineering of
the automation system to result in a fully accepted facility.
The
radioactive drug needed to be chilled to below
–23°C within
a short space of time. Due to the temperature and the radioactivity
of the product it was important that during the process the
product was away from human contact
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The
storage of the product was remote to the production area,
which needed TQC to develop a specially designed mobile freezer
system. TQC provided full project management facilities integrating
robots, conveyor systems, pallet docking stations, mobile
freezers, control system etc all within a GAMP 4 project.
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Fully
Automated Production Facility for the Medical Industry |
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GAMP
4 Compliant Project |
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Clean
Room Environment |
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Automated
Heavy Lead Pot Handling |
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Comms
for MIS |
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Radioactive
Product at Low Temperature |
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Toshiba
SCARA robotic handling |
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Robot
Payload 14Kg |
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Product
Storage at below –23°C |
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Flexlink
conveyor system |
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Touch
Screen HMI terminal with Allen Bradley SLC5/04 PLC and Controlnet
Flex I/O |
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Barcode
reading & product tracking and colour recognition |
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system process involves docking of an empty mobile freezer unit,
this is then filled with empty pots. The pots are then chilled
to the storage temperature. To fill the chilled pots, the robots
open the mobile freezer drawers and sequentially unload each
pot and loads it onto a transfer conveyor. After filling a second
robot, the system loads a second mobile freezer with the pots.
This complete process is carried out to tight timescales to
ensure the product is swiftly chilled and the low temperature
is maintained.
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For a printer
friendly sheet on the above equipment, access the PDF document here
If you are currently
considering a special handling system or robot application, contact
TQC to discuss your requirements.
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TQC Ltd, Hooton Street, Carlton Road,
Nottingham, NG3 2NJ, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)115 9503561
Fax: +44 (0)115 9484642
E-mail: sales@tqc.co.uk
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