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of automation," Sar vey said (8). "So, what that a l-
lows us to do when we have a lot of part variation,
we're not just programming pick-and-place or mo-
tion based on preset points. So, we move to an area,
and then we use the AI vision to tell us, where is
that exact part or how much has that part changed?
So, it actually allows the automation to move more
seamlessly."
Reducing human error is another advantage, ac-
cording to Love.
"It's also a way to build quality," she said. "In gen-
eral, when we take humans out of the process and
we don't touch things as many times, it's a lot harder
for us to introduce error. So, both quality and access
to a larger labor pool are really driving automation."
Finally, Sarvey said, automation doesn't just assist
manufacturing processes themselves. It also facil-
itates evaluations of laboratories, their equipment,
and procedures.
"There are a lot of inspections that previously were
done manua l ly, because it's not a simple pat tern
match for if this medical device or this pharmaceu-
tical component is a reject," Sar vey said. "Now we
can teach the AI what a good part looks like, what
a bad part looks like, and then over time, shift that
area all in the nature of increasing throughput and
decreasing yield loss."
Other key opinion leaders and subject matter ex-
per ts inter v iewed onsite by PharmTech Group at
INTERPHEX included Chris Gooding, general man-
ager at CRL Solutions; Nicole Hunter, head of Global
WMArchitect at Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology
Solutions; and William Wainwright, business devel-
opment manager at Iwata Label USA.
For complete coverage of INTERPHEX 2025 and
these experts' expanded views on manufacturing
and the current state of the industr y, visit Pharm-
Tech.com.
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