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Iso-Fixu offers endless customisation possibilities Anssi Vekkeli, NewIcon’s mechanical engineering team leader, has worked in the engineering team for the IsoFixu medicine storage robot since 2008. The best part of the job is finding technical solutions, solving problems and improving the competitive strength of the devices. “It feels great that the product has achieved a good market position in Finland and also gained international recognition. We can use the work done on product development in practice. We’re actually working on a renewal project right now,” Vekkeli says, delighted. At first, the device’s development progressed by leaps and bounds. The team listened to the customers carefully and developed the device according to the customers’ needs.The functions and form were changed “quite radically,” according to Vekkeli. The necessary measurements, options and connections also became clearer. After the significant changes made in the beginning, the functions have mostly stayed the same. “The big updates included changing the robots and linear guide axels into the ones we’re currently using. In the last few years, we’ve made some small, less visible changes to improve the functions and the processibility of the parts.”
DELIVERIES FROM ONE FLOOR TO ANOTHER Vekkeli, who previously worked at Innocomp Automaatio, thinks the demands of pharmacies and hospitals are stricter than in other industries when it comes to the appearance and the noise levels of the devices. The designers’ know-how of matters such as pharmacy processes, the processing of medicine packages and the location of devices has improved, which
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