Life Sciences
A Life sciences partner you can count on
With more than 13 years of experience, the Samuel Automation team brings a deep understanding of life science requirements, as well as an expertise in complex manufacturing, operations, and cutting-edge custom automation. Our team of world-class engineers is here to help you solve your unique problem. Our one-off solutions use the best technology and will allow you to bring your new system or product to market in record time.
However, we also recognize the importance of mitigating risk, and we won’t cut corners to save time or reduce our operational costs. We are the partner you can trust to reliably deliver on your expectations, diligently protect your trade secrets and help you consistently deliver products of the highest quality, in the smallest space possible. Here are some of the ways we do that:
Quality Assurance
Working in the Healthcare industry teaches you the importance of reliability. When the needle you’re making or the device you’re creating may be responsible for saving a life, traceability, predictability, repeatability and validation are invaluable and that’s exactly what automation delivers.
Designing with Validation in Mind
- First, we clearly identify the requirements
- Next, we assess of the appropriate technology
- Then we define system capabilities
This approach ensures reliable and reproducible results and paves the way for the validation process. Our focus on consistency allows us to execute projects knowing qualification processes will be satisfied on time and on budget. We can also customize our level of engagement in the Validation Documentation process to meet your exact needs.
Onsite Cleanroom
Our in-house cleanroom environment is the perfect place to create products that need maximum protection. This sterile space, which allows us to control a variety of elements – including static, temperature and sound – is essential for proof of principle testing and full-scale automation acceptance testing in an environment that simulates those of highly regulated industries, for things like medical device assembly and contaminant inspection.
We offer equipment that facilitates cleaning to maintain a low bioburden level on our machines, and the unique knowledge needed to design and manufacture automation technology in a cleanroom environment, providing you with an unmatched level of confidence that no rejects have been mixed with your approved products. When required, we can also monitor for batch integrity on the finished product as well as incoming materials.
Superior Customer Relationship
We are committed to working with you to fully understand your specific needs and we want you to have complete confidence in us and our capabilities.
Whether it’s verifying speeds and controls, running prototyping tests or evaluating different technologies, we will spend the time needed to fully verify every element of your automation system. We recognize that the more due diligence we do along the way – from the proposal to testing the machine on the floor – the more confidence we can have in knowing we’re delivering exactly what you’re looking for.
High-Volume Production
Our Medical Experience Includes
Intravenous Therapy
- Manufacturing components and assembly of intravenous catheters
- Filters and adapters for IV sets
- Inspection of IV bags
- Assembly of needle-based products
Diagnostics (Point of Care)
We understand that products and machines in the diagnostic market are specifically tailored to each individual manufacturer. We’re committed to fully understanding what you’re looking to deliver and developing a proprietary system to addresses that. Our experience includes:
- High-throughput machines for sample handling at a central lab
- Cartridge assembly and processing for Point-of-Care diagnostics
- Assembly and inspection of implantable sensors
- Reagent filling and sealing of consumables
Special Purpose Machine Examples
- Automate handling in proprietary processes (surface treating in harsh environments)
- High-accuracy, shape and weight critical powder pressing of tablets
- Heat-forming plastic tubing and catheters into custom shapes
The Problem-Solving Powers of Automation
Foil Sealing
- Web feeding, die cut and transfer of plastic and metallized foils
- Heat-sealing of foil
- Inspection of sealing area using vision and laser profiler tools
- Leak testing
Bonding
- Adhesive dosing using time-pressure, positive displacement and jetting technologies
- Solvent bonding of medical tubing and fittings
- Tip-position verification, shot calibration, purging, bubble detection
- UV and heat curing
- Ultrasonic welding
- Leak testing
Liquid and Powder Dosing
- Peristaltic pump, time pressure, positive displacement and piezo/jet valve dosing
- Open and closed loop powder filling
- On line and off line shot verification
- Pre-fill and post-fill weight verification
- Electrostatic and humidity control for micro and nanoliter dosing
- Vision and laser inspection for dose placement verification
Integration of Proprietary Processes
- RF tipping of catheters
- Dip coating of catheters
- Spin coating of glass slides
- Catheter balloon forming
Traceability and Reporting
- Product serialization
- Laser marking, labeling and inkjet printing
- Process data collection and analysis, using our proprietary software, SPMX
- Incoming component lot control and individual part control
- Component traceability and reconciliation
Ready to start your next automation journey?
Connect with our specialists to explore how we can optimize your assembly
or testing process. Let’s build a smarter, faster future together.