At Fishman® Corporation, we can see that the ideas behind our solutions and services are beginning to break through to engineers working close to the production lines at companies making a wide range of products. Always aiming higher, we wrote a summary document to inform higher level engineers of the advantages offered by our innovative fluid dispense systems.
The High Costs associated With Compressed Air
We typically begin our sales presentation by warning of the disadvantages of compressed air. That it’s a costly and ineffective practice preventing medical device manufacturers from achieving process control and production standardization. Because compressed air has been used to run fluid dispense systems for so long, getting engineers, especially those at higher levels, to hear what we have to say isn’t always easy. This is why we created a summary to highlight subjects that we believe will have a better chance of resonating with them. Here are some of the topics the summary touches on.
The Costs Keep Rising
When achieving process control is hampered by the use of compressed air, there’s a troubling rise in post-production scraps, which causes rework costs to soar. Another major problem occurring from the use of compressed air is that it puts validation at risk. This is serious because the validation process for equipment takes months, costs thousands of dollars, and creates many levels of documentation that must be carefully maintained during production to avoid rejects, violations, and large fines. The use of compressed air makes it needlessly difficult to duplicate the validation process, especially when validation is being done in one location while production is done in another.
AlgorithmicControl™ Eliminates These High Costs
Fishman® Corporation has been diligently working on solutions to help medical device manufacturers break free from having to use compressed air. Our solution, the SmartDispenser® with AlgorithmicControl™ and patented AirFree® Technology, offers engineers the key to achieving process control and production standardization by providing makers of medical devices with something that dispense equipment running on compressed air cannot: the ability to apply algorithms to a mechanical drive.
The benefits of AlgorithmicControl™ are tough to ignore. They include the elimination of rejects, rework, and scrap. They also include the elimination of human error because with AlgorithmicControl™ there are no adjustments to be made to the program, resulting in exact performance from workstation to workstation, and from facility to facility. With the SmartDispenser® medical device manufacturers get one dispense program that works flawlessly in any and all locations around the globe.
The Advantages Keep Rising
The Validation Support Program (VSP) is another unique advantage gained from partnering with Fishman® Corporation. It’s offered free of charge and performed before a customer purchases the SmartDispenser®. It proves through testing that the SmartDispenser® will work exactly the same at the customer’s facility as it did at ours. It also provides customers with baseline statistical test results to be used as a comparison when the SmartDispenser® is delivered to their facility, and the same tests are run. It’s clear to see how all VPS greatly reduces the time and cost to validate.
AirFree® Technology is Another Major Advantage
AirFree® Technology provides medical device manufacturers with the ability to add a wide range of smart features to the SmartDispenser®. These are designed to help eliminate human error, increase productivity and strengthen communication. With this level of intelligence, the SmartDispenser® can make decisions, report production data, reduce PLC programming, and establish machine-to-machine cross communication between workstations and with MES systems. All of which will help makers of medical devices achieve far greater control of the assembly process, so they can reap the many rewards that come along with it.
It’s High-Time to Consider the SmartDispenser® from Fishman®
We hope now that you’ve had the chance to review the information in this blog, that you’d like to learn more about Fishman® and the SmartDispenser®. You may do so by visiting fishmancorp.com.