Download ABSTRACT :

Assembling & Programming a robot for pharmaceutical purposes
B.OUR PROJECT
1.INTRODUCTION
Nowadays industries of all kinds have included automation in nearly all their productive activities in
order to achieve better results on precision, time, safety…
This current machine is a robot made exclusively for chemical and pharmaceutical applications by
Zymark Corporation ( USA ) .
Zymark Corporation ( www.zymark.com ) is a premier provider of products,technologies and services
for laboratory applications in the rapidly expanding life sciences marketplace. Zymark is focused
exclusively on laboratory automation and robotic solutions. The company’s products span the full
range of user needs from low-cost, single-function workstations to today's most sophisticated modular
robotic systems.
This robot and its surrounding stations were bought by Astra-Zeneca, one of the Swedish leading
pharmaceutical companies,and it was donated some years later to Kungl Tekniska Högskolan
( Campus Telge, Södertälje, Sweden ) .
We, Jorge Montero López and Jordi Rodó Sarró , were at the current moment of writing this
report,Electronic Engineering students at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and we were taking our
final exam work in Sweden, in the framework of the European Erasmus-Socrates exchange
programme .
Our work has consisted in studying thorougly, documenting, re-assembling and re-programming
again the cylindrical robot and all the different stations .
Some problems we have had are mainly those ones related to pressure-air based stations and finding
out the correct wire connections between the controller, the robot and the power and event controller,
since all the equipment had been taken to pieces when it was delivered to university .
12