'SecureTouch' Safety Syringe Assembly Machine

The challenge was to design a fully automated machine to retro-fit standard syringes producing SecureTouch safety syringes. Testing and quality assurance methods were necessary to ensure product conformance and consistency and to gain approval from the relevant medical authorities.

Significant technical challenges required the use of technologies such as ultrasonic welding and machine vision. A highly developed ultrasonic welding technique integrated within the design provided a fast and consistent plastic bond. An innovative machine vision approach led to fast automatic part sorting and rejection, high accuracy quality assurance and high speed part alignment.

The result is a machine capable of producing upwards of 30 million syringes per year. The entire machine was designed from scratch, built and commissioned in-house at the Procontrol Systems premises - eliminating contractual headaches for the client!

Click here to see a video of the machine in operation


SecureTouch Assembly Machine showing bowl feeders and ultrasonic welders


SecureTouch Assembly Machine showing linear feeders and control panel


SecureTouch Assembly Machine showing SCADA touch screen


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