Recently, the high-quality robot brand STEP announced that after rigorous testing and verification, its ADTECH SCARA robot has been recognized by a medical device head enterprise for the intelligent production line of nasal/throat swab packaging because of its high efficiency - the daily production capacity of a single machine can reach 600,000 nasal/throat swabs.
During the pandemic, people are becoming more and more familiar with that thing that looks like a cotton swab. It is about 15 cm long, the top is wrapped in flocking, the product label is called "disposable sampler", for stirring in the nasal cavity or throat, some into the sampling tube is sent to the nucleic acid detection room, some put into the antigen detection reagent tube, antigen detection, medical professionals call it "nasal / throat swab".
The original manual swab production line often uses manual cutting and loading and unloading. Workers take the whole swab from the equipment, cut the swab edge material, and then put it back into the packaging line, which 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 a single operation for a long time, the efficiency is low, the quality is unstable, and it is difficult to meet the demand for large-scale, high-quality production. At the same time, enterprises are facing the dilemma of high labor costs and large personnel flow, and the automation and upgrading of production lines has become an urgent need of manufacturing enterprises.