BIOTRONIK AG partnered with Transnova-RUF GmbH and Octotronic to automate and digitize its packaging process, ensuring a unified communication across all levels of the automation pyramid. This collaboration resulted in a system that enhances process control, traceability, and operational efficiency.
BIOTRONIK AG is a private, globally operating healthcare company providing products and services for the medical care of people with cardiovascular diseases. All critical components of the products are manufactured in-house. BIOTRONIK offers products and services along the entire value chain from a single source. This ensures absolute reliability and guarantees that customers receive products made by the industry’s most qualified employees.
The goal was to automate and digitize the packaging process with the following aims:
BIOTRONIK, Transnova-RUF, and Octotronic collaborated to create a robust system architecture, with Octotronic providing expertise in software development and system integration.
Key Achievements
Process Control & Tracking: Comprehensive tracking and logging of data at every stage, ensuring detailed status and history for each product and order in the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) .
System Integration: Integration of packaging steps with MES through defined anchor points, enabling accurate detection and classification of product issues.
The implementation brought significant improvements:
Our project goal was to integrate the production steps during manufacturing and to capture a complete set of parameters and measurement values for each manufactured assembly part. Octotronic supported us during the workshops by fully recording a data flow process for an assembly inspection and installing automatic data acquisition across the entire process module. With this approach, rejection rates were consistently lowered across all facilities, and assembly production can now be carried out systematically with more consistent and better quality.
With the use of an MPI module from Octotronic, all relevant data flows could be quickly and easily integrated across system boundaries. The MPI module enabled the definition of clear interfaces as a 'Single Point of Contact' already in an early project phase. All changing framework conditions could be responded to without coordination issues in the project. This made it possible to develop and test against the defined interfaces and ultimately ensure a fast and reliable integration into the production system. A positive experience.
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