In mid-October, INTRAVIS sales team was at FAKUMA in Friedrichshafen. Between October 17 and 21, they presented INTRAVIS innovations in the field of IML inspection and, together with four other partner companies, presented a revolutionary solution for the medical industry. Here is a report from the trade fair.
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Overall, the trade fair was well attended and a real success for INTRAVIS. While the company had always exhibited systems at partner companies at previous FAKUMA exhibitions, this time INTRAVIS set up a partner stand with their long-standing friends from Beck Automation. This was the first time INTRAVIS was able to have their own stand at FAKUMA.
The second and third days in particular were very busy and INTRAVIS team was able to make many new contacts. It was certainly helpful that INTRAVIS presented a world first for the medical industry in cooperation with Kebo, MCC Verstraete, Beck Automation and Arburg. This combined medical materials, special IML labels, advanced automation and a quality inspection system for a medical application - more precisely, small plastic tubes with an IML scale - in one system. IMLWatcher from INTRAVIS inspects the label, the neck finish and the thread and thus assumes a great deal of responsibility. Only if the label scale is applied completely and accurately and bad parts are identified can it be guaranteed that the medicine will be administered correctly during subsequent use.
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The system ran the entire trade fair from morning to evening and was well attended throughout.
INTRAVIS Sales Manager Malte Westermann looked after the system on site and reported afterwards: "As soon as the system was started in the morning, the first interested parties were already there to take a look at the solution. And this continued every evening until the end of the trade fair. The team, i.e. the five partner companies, worked together to develop a revolutionary solution that definitely attracted a lot of attention."
The fact that this solution appeared on the front page of the trade fair newspaper handed out at the entrance on the second day certainly helped the flow of visitors.
In addition to this world first, INTRAVIS IMLWatcher was also presented in two "normal" applications. At INTRAVIS own stand, the company presented a combination of a handling system from Beck Automation and the IMLWatcher. And at Netstal's stand INTRAVIS also showed how the IMLWatcher can inspect the label for misalignment and contamination as well as for color deviations and back injection.
INTRAVIS conclusion about Fakuma: The company is considering being there again next year. Because for the IML market in particular, this is THE trade fair for INTRAVIS in German-speaking countries.
