Fully automated tablet production – The shop floor is becoming smart: Glatt and Bayer are digitizing operator intelligence

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A look inside Bayer's new Solida 1 tablet production facility during construction
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A look inside Bayer’s new Solida 1 tablet production facility during construction: The robots and lifting columns for material handling are being set up.

Pushing heavy containers and feeding materials manually is a thing of the past at Bayer—at least in the new Solida 1 tablet production facility. Here, intralogistics is fully automated. This is made possible by a unique software solution that orchestrates the robot-assisted systems for material flow.

In tablet production here in Germany and around the world, operators push heavy barrels and containers into clean rooms and ensure that each production plant is fed with the right materials at the right time. What sounds simple is, however, extremely demanding. The highly qualified specialist staff bear a lot of responsibility and are also few and far between. One wrong decision, one seemingly minor oversight, and an entire batch of sometimes very expensive drugs and precursors is rendered unusable.

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