Capabilities | Automation | Custom Automation
Custom automation for medical & life science products
Whether you're manufacturing innovative medical devices, instruments, or life science products, you need custom automated systems meticulously designed to align with your unique production processes. Ascential™ works with you to integrate automation into your workflows so you can stay ahead of the curve and meet market demands with ease.
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Services
Bespoke automation solutions built for your production line
Discrete, Multi-Part Assembly
Design automated systems to handle and assemble individual components with precision, speed, and consistency for your sensitive, high-performance products.
Web Handling
Control the movement of materials and flexible substrates with high-speed feeding designed to avoid jams and scrap waste. We also assist with debugging and island placement.
Joining
Deliver high-quality parts with unified joining processes unique to your product. From welding, bonding, sealing, and laminating, our team ensures biocompatibility, sterilization, and regulatory compliance.
Packaging
Strengthen product integrity, safety, and traceability and minimize contamination risk with automated packaging systems that leverage the latest tools.
Vialing
Drive higher throughput and accuracy, reduce human intervention, and ensure all samples, medications, and reagents are safe and compliant with automated precision filling.
Coating
Enhance protection, functionality, biocompatibility, and/or surface performance through custom coating processes with materials selected for your specific application.
Finishing
Optimize your finishing processes and reduce manual handling. Our experts help you prepare your products for distribution, use, or further processing.
Personalization
Cut costs and time-to-market with access to a wide range of off-the-shelf, customizable products designed to deliver exceptional quality and performance for your unique project needs.
Cutting/Slitting
Streamline the overall production flow by integrating automated cutting and slitting with downstream processes, such as assembly, packaging, or further manufacturing steps, and produce high-quality, uniform materials.
Extrusion
Get more control over parameters such as temperature, pressure, and extrusion speed. Make extrusion more accurate and repeatable, and more efficiently transport raw materials and remove finished products.
Material Transport
Increase precision, reduce manual labor requirements, and improve batch tracking and traceability with systems built for your exact materials sorting, conveyance, and storage needs.
Forming
Efficiently monitor critical parameters like pressure, temperature, and forming time and minimize product defects with advanced sensors and feedback mechanisms.
Capabilities
Optimize workflows with thorough medical manufacturing expertise
Cutting-Edge Automation Technologies
Strengthen traceability and minimize material handling from AGVs, smart containers, and robotics to barcode and RFID technology.
Integrated Equipment & Machinery
Reduce the risk of bottlenecks by working with Ascential to form a cohesive, interconnected production line.
Real-Time Monitoring & Control
Enhance productivity and continuously improve process parameters with live data collection and analysis of automated systems.
Why Choose Ascential?
Proven Expertise
A partner with 70+ years of experience in delivering mission-critical solutions, bridging engineering, automation, and manufacturing knowledge from 7 highly specialized firms.
Global Presence
Tap into a network of FDA/ISO-certified facilities for localized support and manufacturing capabilities.
Solution-Oriented Approach
Find flexible, scalable automation solutions for your unique application. Address process and product challenges at every juncture.
Commitment to Quality
Preserve production speed and meet the highest standards of performance and regulatory compliance.
Frequently Asked Questions
Get answers to common questions about our custom automation capabilities.
Yes. Ascential offers data-driven automation and scalable manufacturing solutions for lateral flow development (LFD) applications. Our experts have deep experience in both lateral flow cassette assembly and diagnostic strip automation and have built vision-guided robotic (VGR) and mechanical high speed (MHS) systems for many years. We are uniquely positioned to evaluate existing or projected LFD processes and help you determine which investments best align with your production volume requirements, maintenance capabilities, and other business goals like flexibility, reliability, and ROI.
Whether you’re looking for a bespoke automation solution, or a high-quality, off-the-shelf machine for your lateral flow application, our teams are ready to work with you.
Under-automation can be especially dangerous in the medical manufacturing space, as delays in production, gaps in quality control, or reliance on unstable global supply chains can all cascade into downstream consequences for patients. Meanwhile, over-automating too soon, or in the wrong areas, can lead to poor system resilience, misinterpreted data, or catastrophic errors. “Just right” automation is a thoughtful approach that strikes the optimal balance between people, processes, and technology.
We help our clients avoid both extremes and maximize ROI by using data-driven decision-making to guide their automation investments. Our teams analyze process bottlenecks, operational inefficiencies, and safety exposures to design automation solutions that fit the current and future needs of the business.
Our automation engineers work closely with our in-house design, manufacturing, and compliance experts to ensure all systems perform as expected. With a holistic approach and decades of hands-on global experience, Ascential helps you reduce bottlenecks and risks in new and existing workflows so you can deliver reliable, high-quality products on a global scale.
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