What JR Automation Offers

At JR Automation, we have the expertise, processes, and insights to drive your medical or life sciences business forward. Here’s what you can expect from our team:

Expertise: with over four decades partnering with medical and life science companies on hundreds of different products, we’ve developed a keen understanding of its unique needs (and solutions to its unique challenges)

Engineering Services: access our skilled engineers to advise on all aspects of designing your systems with a special focus on process and assembly automation

FDA and Audit Support: our validation experts will tackle the mountain of paperwork needed to win FDA approval and bring your products to market

Robotics and Automation: improve the speed and efficiency of your operations without sacrificing flexibility, quality and traceability

Lifecycle Management and After Implementation Support: we’re a partner for the life of your business that can help you maintain, source, improve, or modify your systems

Expertise

For over 40 years, JR Automation has provided innovative automation solutions for the medical and life sciences industry. We will be your partner from design and development through build, implementation, and ongoing support.

Our decades of building customized automation solutions allow us to lean on insights from other industries to improve the efficiency, accuracy, and quality of your manufacturing process. Our automotive pedigree is the reason producers in other fields like defense and consumer goods sought us as a partner to improve their operations.

Our Process

We walk alongside customers at every stage of the process. We understand the steps to safely grow your medical manufacturing process from manual to fully automated systems. We start by working with your team to set a process and implement benchtop tools to help with production. From there, we help you scale to a semi-automated production process that will reduce cycle time and improve efficiency, quality and productivity. Last, our team will walk with you through the implementation of a fully automated system with high volume, high throughput production.

We can plug in at any step, but the best solutions and results come when we’re involved from the beginning. This is because we’re experts at refining automation solutions to cut costs and increase efficiency. Moreover, our team excels at cutting the time to market because we know that every day your product isn’t on shelves is millions in lost revenue.

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What We Do

JR Automation has the expertise to help your organization implement automation solutions at two critical stages: process and assembly.

PROCESS AUTOMATION

The medical and life sciences industries produce millions of parts or products each week — all of which must be carefully monitored and tested before shipping. Automation increases the efficiency of manufacturing, testing, and shipping processes. JR Automation has developed process systems for various applications, from sterile medical devices to animal health products and regenerative products to deal with human tissue safely and securely.

ASSEMBLY AUTOMATION

JR Automation integrates production equipment with material-handling, hardware, and software to boost accuracy, consistency, reliability, and repeatability. Our robotics designs excel in dispensing, dose counting, picking and placing, as well as sorting, and our “build-to-print” capabilities help you get to market quickly.

Our robotics designs excel in a variety of functions that will bring your product to market more quickly, including:

Dispensing

Dose counting

Picking and placing

Sorting

Build-to-print

High Throughput Drug Discovery Screening

CASE STUDY

Three Robots Cooperate to Monitor Test Plates for New Discoveries

A large international drug company needed a high-throughput drug discovery system that could accommodate a multitude of simultaneous processes. It was required to handle microtiter plates with heavy stainless steel lids. Typical robots working in drug discovery were laboratory type robots on long linear tracks. These robots had light payloads, were less than rugged, and slow.

Technical Capabilities Involed:

software data integration
robotics integration
vision applications
material handling solutions
dispense applications
inspection testing

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FLEXCHASSIS® MODLAR AUTOMATION SYSTEM

When speed to market is critical in today’s ultra-competitive global environment, the new FlexChassis® modular automation platform gives you the power to succeed faster. It minimizes up-front system concepting, design and build time and gives you unmatched flexibility for high-speed, high-volume assembly in almost any industry.

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Engineering Services

JR Automation is often called on to play a consulting role and provide engineering services to clients. Partnering with JR Automation will give your team access to our deep bench of engineers, experienced pros who can help you dig into process development and specifications. Often we’re able to simplify designs or processes and reduce complexity, resulting in lower per unit costs and even a better experience for the end user.

From R&D to simulation and testing to technical documentation, we will come alongside your team to get into production faster and more efficiently.

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FDA and Audit Support

One of the unique benefits of partnering with JR Automation is that we’ll maintain the documentation required for the iterative path medical products take to market. Let us be your trusted partner that accounts for compliance with the current Good Automated Manufacturing Practice (GAMP5) guidelines. We have validation experts on staff and four decades of experience adhering to the letter of the law to ensure your product earns approval.

Lifecycle Management and Support

JR Automation can design a program to support your organization whether you’re an experienced medical and life science manufacturer, or if this is your first automation system. We can support your company through changes in systems, personnel, and the environment.

We rest our commitment to the highest possible uptime and lowest possible lifecycle costs on four pillars:

Parts: From maintenance to forecasting stock needs and sourcing - we can help keep your systems running at peak performance.
Remote Support: Get access to our seasoned engineers 24/7, 365 days a year to answer your questions.
Field Services: Between our 28 facilities worldwide, and thousands of employees stationed throughout the US, we can have someone on premises to augment your team.
Modernizations and Small Projects: When the time comes to tune up your systems, we have dedicated engineers who can help you upgrade or modify how they perform.

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Robotics and Automation for Medical and Life Sciences

Medical product and material handling manufacturers need to meet rigorous safety and verification standards, as well as be fast, efficient, flexible, and accurate. Automation systems improve performance in the following areas:

Efficiency & Accuracy
Flexibility
Speed
Quality
Traceability & Serialization

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Medical Device Assembly

Assembly and process systems for diagnostic tests and treatment devices, including surgical devices, auto injectors, wearables, inhalers, connected care, regenerative medicine, and more.

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Pharmaceutical

Biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and biopharmaceutical assembly and process systems, including manufacturing and formulation, filling and dispensing, packaging, and more.

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Capabilities

From assembly automation, dispensing, and vision systems to process design, controls engineering, and software integrations, our team has built custom technology solutions for every application, process, and industry. We also provide turnkey models that can be engineered to fit seamlessly with your parts and processes.

Of our many capabilities, those most valuable to the medical & life sciences industry include:

Material Preparation & Handling
Product/Device Assembly
Test & Inspection
Digital Solutions
Packaging

Product Expertise

Our background includes experience with cleanroom environments, high-volume manufacturing, processes with a high degree of precision and repeatability, and more. We also have extensive experience with the certifications and validation processes required for the life sciences industry. Our vast background includes:

Diagnostic products

Point of care

Lateral flow assembly

Rapid immunoassay

Hospital and physician devices

Personal protection equipment

Surgical instruments and tools

Infusion sets

Cannula assembly

Medical waste management

Hospital beds

Nuclear medicine

In vitro processing

Emergency care products

Pharmaceuticals

Injectables

Nasal spray

Oral solid and liquid

Inhalers

Fulfillment

Pre-filled delivery devices

Drug testing

Transdermal patches

Blood glucose monitoring

Wearables

Hearing pods

Dental devices

Lab on a chip

Animal health

Laser stents

Gender sorting eggs

Contact lenses

IV catheters

Vaccine systems

Biotechnology products

Molded lenses

Biochemical and cell-based drug discovery

Home health and consumer devices

Holistic, Flexible, and Specialized Solutions

In the highly regulated environment of medical and pharmaceutical manufacturing, not only are you tasked with reducing cycle time and cost, but at the same time quality and output needs to be increased. At JR Automation, our innovative and specialized teams partner with you to navigate those challenges and transform your processes.

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Certified Excellence

ITAR certified facility

Qmed Qualified Supplier

ISO 9001:2015 registered

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JR Automation partners with the world's leading manufacturers to design, build, and integrate custom automation solutions. Time and again, we've proven that hard work and creativity can uncover opportunities others never thought possible.

Email us: solutions@jrautomation.com

Call us: (833) 800-7630