FP Developments is a privately-owned pharmaceutical material handling OEM that has a 60-year history of providing equipment for syringe filling and handling, vial filling and handling, mark and verify, track-and-trace, unique device identification (UDI), and the like. The company has a strong installed base for its robotic syringe filler, which uses a Universal Robots UR-3 robotic arm to perform aseptic syringe filling and capping. The machine is primarily used in specific pharmaceutical environments like hospital pharmacies and clean-room pharmacies.
“In these environments, we frequently see pharmacy technicians loading the syringes by hand into the tray,” says Ryan Stote, Systems Integrator, FP Developments. “If you have a 200-syringe run, it takes the user quite a while to load those trays. So we came up with a solution to take the hand-loading out of it and free up the technician. We use the UR-3 because, like the name implies, it is truly universal. It is easy to integrate, and the user interface is intuitive.”
