Recently, STEP, a high-quality robot brand, announced that after rigorous testing and verification, its ADTECH SCARA robot has been recognized by a medical device head company as an intelligent production line for nose/throat swab packaging due to its high efficiency -- a single machine can produce 600,000 nose/throat swabs per day.
During the pandemic, people became more familiar with what looked like a cotton swab. It is about 15cm long, covered in fong, and labeled as a "single-use sampler". After being disturbed in the nose or throat, it can be placed in a sample tube to be sent to a nucleic acid testing room, or in an antigen detection reagent tube to be tested for antigen. Medical professionals call it a "nose/throat swab."
The original manual swab production line often uses manual shearing and loading and unloading. The workers take out the whole swab from the equipment, cut the edge material of the swab, and then place it back to the packaging line body. This process needs to be completed by 6-7 people. In this way, not only the demand for manpower is large, but also the workers need to repeat the single operation for a long time, resulting in low efficiency and unstable quality, which makes it difficult to meet the production needs of large quantities and high quality. At the same time, enterprises are faced with the dilemma of high labor cost and large personnel flow, and the automation upgrade of production line has become an urgent need for manufacturing enterprises.
At present, hundreds of millions of nucleic acid swabs are consumed every day in China, which puts forward very high requirements for the production and manufacturing efficiency of nasal and throat swabs. At the same time, manufacturing enterprises actively promote robot replacement due to multiple considerations such as health safety and recruitment difficulties.
· High repeatable positioning accuracy
· Large load and low noise
· Light weight and good rigidity
· Fast running speed
STEP ADTECH SCARA robot, equipped with high-order algorithm of robot dynamics, can greatly improve the running speed of the robot. It is used for the intelligent production line of nose/throat swab packaging. The robot picks up the swab and puts it on the packaging line, producing 24 swabs every 3 seconds and 600,000 swabs per day per single machine. Only 20 STEP ADTECH SCARA robots can meet the needs of a large city of 10 million people for one day to efficiently help fight the epidemic.