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Manufacturing in Focus looks into the innovations that drive our automation solutions. 

In a recent article with Manufacturing in Focus, we discussed how automation is evolving globally and what that means for customers in the automotive and MedTech industries. Here’s an excerpt:

With proven equipment solutions in MedTech and automotive electronics manufacturing that serve as foundational pillars of its operation, HAHN provides customers with solutions tailored to their specific industry needs while leveraging its expertise between its business units to find the right solution.

“A lot of those innovations and those technologies that automotive has developed over time are just now becoming more prevalent in MedTech, and so we’re able to use some of that historical expertise and knowledge in that field. We’ve found that it certainly does transfer to our body of knowledge of the medical market, just with some adaptation,” says Smith of the company’s internal cross-sector collaborations that have proved so fruitful.

Greg Earle, Managing Director in Hebron, Kentucky, notes that it works both ways: “A lot of things from the MedTech side—the quality systems and inspections and the testing side of things—have been adapted over to the automotive industry over time as well. Quality has always been a priority for automotive, and that experience gives us a different insight into how to validate and check things,” he says.

Both the MedTech and automotive electronics sectors have processes and operations that would benefit from automation solutions like those offered by HAHN Automation Group U.S. Inc. On the automotive electronics side, opportunities run the gamut from automated assembly and test processes to machine integration, tending, retooling, and retrofitting.

“In Hebron, we’re trying to grow our service department, and that means a lot of things,” Earle explains. “Some of our small, very dynamic projects, at the same time as growing the partnership, allow us to help when customers want new equipment. We can serve as that ‘easy’ button for ordering general spare parts, or for quick parts turnaround to keep their production going. Preventive maintenance programs, data analysis updates, and reporting-panel technologies also help our customers be prepared.”

In the MedTech sector, increased levels of automation in manufacturing has been a trend for several years, amplified by supply chain challenges. Additionally, the increasing complexity and small nature of medical devices presents a greater need for automation tools that help them meet regulatory requirements.

“Our facilities in Dayton, Ohio and Brooklyn Park, Minnesota serve as the global MedTech headquarters for the HAHN Automation Group. We don’t just specialize in MedTech manufacturing because it’s part of our portfolio—it is all we do in those locations,” says Smith. “It allows us to be intimately familiar with the challenges of medical device manufacturing and structuring equipment solutions for those challenges.”

Read the full article .