Project description DEENESFRITPL Robots take position on pharmaceutical filling lines The increasing demand for pharmaceutical products has driven the industry to continuous technological innovation. The EU-funded Aseptic Smart project will demonstrate robotised filling lines capable of processing several container forms. This allows fast changeovers providing manufacturing flexibility and agility that are essential in the processing of smaller batches of more personalised injectable medicines. Robots eliminate human intervention in the aseptic area, offering sterility assurance and reducing contamination risk, while the modular and standard design of machines permits cheaper and faster scaling out during production. The project will process the robot gripping system, integrate robots into machines, and develop machine vision and control systems before validation and demonstration in a real environment. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective "Aseptic Smart will demonstrate a novel fully robotised, multifunctional pharmaceutical filling line with capabilities of processing several container types (vials, syringes, cartridges, ampoules, etc.) and thus bringing the sector to the fore of Industry 4.0 revolution, which is the future of manufacturing in Europe. The technology enables fast changeovers ( 30 minutes) thus providing manufacturing flexibility and agility critical in processing smaller batches of more personalised injectable medicines. Robots eliminate the need for human intervention in aseptic area and thus solve two traditional challenges within the pharma industry-sterility assurance and contamination risk reduction. Machines have a modular design which allows cheaper and faster scaling out through addition of more modules where production increase is required and reduces technology transfer costs by 94%. The technology has the following additional advantages#58;58% lower operational costs - ca. 87% less parts reduce maintenance costs and energy consumption;Compact – up to 50% smaller size as robots replace bulky material movement components e.g. conveyor belts delivering manufacturing space savings;Increased process repeatability – robots reduce rejection rates to virtually zero (less than 0.05%)Because of this, the technology has attracted interest of some large pharma companies who, like several others, are shifting from developing quot;blockbusterquot; drugs towards personalised medicine; driving growth of the €6.6 billion global pharma packaging equipment market. The project will refine robot gripping system, integrate machines to robots, develop machine vision and control system before validation and end user demonstration in actual environment. This will support fast commercialisation enabling the consortium to capture 1.5% of the market 5 years after commercialisation, translating to cumulative consortium revenue of over earn cumulative revenues of €97m and return on investment of 696%." Fields of science engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcontrol systemsnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencecomputer visionsocial sciencespolitical sciencespolitical transitionsrevolutionsmedical and health scienceshealth sciencespersonalized medicineengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringrobotics Programme(s) H2020-EC - Horizon 2020 Framework Programme Main Programme H2020-EU.3. - PRIORITY 'Societal challenges H2020-EU.2.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies Topic(s) EIC-FTI-2018-2020 - Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) Call for proposal H2020-EIC-FTI-2018-2020 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme IA - Innovation action Coordinator PHARMA INTEGRATION SRL Net EU contribution € 1 483 663,85 Address Strada del petriccio e belriguardo 35 53100 Siena Italy See on map Region Centro (IT) Toscana Siena Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 635 855,94 Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all SKAN AG Participation ended Switzerland Net EU contribution € 388 716,17 Address Binningerstrasse 116 4123 Allschwil See on map Region Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera Nordwestschweiz Basel-Landschaft Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 166 592,64 VISION EQUIPMENT DOO BEOGRAD-SAVSKIVENAC Serbia Net EU contribution € 148 750,00 Address Šolina 4 11040 Belgrade See on map Region Србија - север Београдски регион Београдска област Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 63 750,00 IPREL PROGETTI SRL Italy Net EU contribution € 296 625,00 Address Via selice provinciale 17/a 40026 Imola (bo) See on map Region Nord-Est Emilia-Romagna Bologna Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 127 125,00 CILAG AG Participation ended Switzerland Net EU contribution € 216 057,73 Address Hochstrasse 201 8200 Schaffhausen See on map Region Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera Ostschweiz Schaffhausen Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 92 596,17 MELAPACK KFT Hungary Net EU contribution € 52 424,75 Address Kiss erno utca 3 a epulet 1046 Budapest See on map SME The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed. Yes Region Közép-Magyarország Budapest Budapest Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 22 467,75
