Swab manufacture made easy with robots

Posted on 12 Sep 2014 by Victoria Fitzgerald

Secure Technologies has developed an efficient and cost-effective solution based on an Omron SCARA robot to improve the manufacturing process for water-testing swabs.

The swabs resemble cotton buds with a specially formed end and are first dipped into a liquid reagent, and then allowed to dry for several hours. After the drying process is complete, each swab is placed in its own test tube. Until recently, the process was manual. Steve Badger, a director of Secure Technologies “Industrial…

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