Project Highlight: High Precision & High Speed Automation to Form Needles for Medical Device Manufacturing
Our customers make the medical devices and life science therapeutics that change the world. They partner with Invio Automation early in their product development process to enable high-performing fabrication, assembly, test, and packaging systems. We have deep expertise to satisfy validation requirements and adhere to FDA standards and broader industry compliance.
PRODUCTS MADE ON OUR SYSTEMS
Drug delivery devices
Diagnostic devices
Cardiac implantable devices
Inhalers
PICC lines
Injection pens & syringes
Filter devices and equipment
On-body pumps & sensors
Needles
CYCLE TIME
10 parts per minute
KEY TECHNOLOGIES
Silicon dispense
Vante digital RF system
Inspection
Laser drilling
Needle bending
Leak testing
SEQUENCE OF OPERATIONS
Locate FEP tube
Mold tube into a “nail head” forming a seal around the product
Machine vision inspection of seal qualifying shape and dimension
cut tube to length
Form the top using Vante digital RF system
Inspect the tip
Vision guided femtosecond laser to drill holes
Inspect hole size and position
Apply small bean of silicon to top of cannula
Bend needle using servo driven bending system
System is vision guided and autmoatically adjusts to the hardness of the material
Needles are palletized
Cannula pallet joins needle pallet for fianl assembly
Robot pick-and-place for assembly
Silicon ball pierced with needle to form seal
Machine vision test for concentricity
Leak and occlusion test
Re-palletized and sent to tray loader pack-out
COMPLIANCE, VALIDATION, & QUALITY
IQ/OQ/PQ expertise and support
21CFR Part 11
Cleanrooms
Collaborative process development with customer resources
Design continuity across all stages of commercialization, from development through full scale production
