Investing in automation and robotics technology can result in a
wide range of benefits for businesses within pharma manufacturing,
including improvements in efficiency, safety, and overall performance.
Importantly, automated trucks and warehouse systems can also bring about
significant cost savings, as well as help to reduce carbon emissions
throughout the supply chain.
As one of the
most rapidly advancing industries, we’ve seen automation developing at
speed within the pharma sector. We’re seeing increasing demand from
clients across the industry looking to keep up with latest innovations
and technologies to ensure they can compete with rising demand and
ever-tightening clinical development deadlines. Meeting this demand is
essential; businesses that are unable to keep up risk falling behind
competitors.
The past year has shone a
light on the pharma industry and its global supply chain, and has
brought about rapid change in how the industry operates. Those pressures
brought on by the pandemic – such as shifting to new working practices,
reduced workforce numbers due to social distancing and illness, and the
implementation of additional hygiene measures to safeguard employee
health, among many others – has made it necessary for manufacturers to
adapt their operations across the board.
These
changes have led to an accelerated adoption of new technologies, which
otherwise may have progressed at a much slower pace. As we move towards a
reset and recovery across the healthcare sector, we are now seeing our
customers shift to their pre-COVID-19 production levels – but with
automation firmly at the heart of their operations to help streamline
and improve manufacturing, warehouse, and logistics operations.
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