Med-Tech Innovation February 16, 2024
Alan Thomas, marketing at ZwickRoell, highlights the benefits associated with automated or robotic testing systems currently available to the pharmaceutical and medical sectors.
ZwickRoell’s discussions with pharmaceutical companies identified the need for a single testing system for autoinjectors that could perform the following standard tests in compliance with EN ISO 11608-5:
- Removal force of safety cap
- Activation force and displacement
- Injector timing
- Delivered drug volume, including the last drops
- Effective needle length
- Safety of needle guard
Fully automated solutions range from easy-to-use smart robots only used for feeding and removing the injector, to complex robotic systems which are used to load specimens into multiple testing machines in parallel. With the latter,...