In a claimed world first, Medstor will soon start work in Copenhagen with Danish consulting company, ALECTIA, equipping two automated warehouses built to deliver sterile goods and services.
The Danish Capital Region is streamlining and upgrading its Central Sterile Services Departments by constructing two new CSSDs. The new buildings, at the Rigshospitalet and the Herlev-Gentofte Hospital, and will set a new standard in CSSD services provision’; almost all the heavy, repetitive work previously undertaken by staff will now done by robots, ‘mini’ AGVs, and conveyor systems.
Where today employees today must carry instruments, robots will carry the instruments to a high-bay storage for sterile goods. From there they will again pick the goods that hospitals in the ‘cluster’ have ordered. Medstor said: “Goods will travel around the automated CSSD on a long conveyor belt, which is where our healthcare materials management systems design expertise comes in. The conveyor belt for the ‘transport boxes’ will carry ‘transport boards’, to move the boxes carrying the medical devices around the system.”
Medstor has won the European contract to supply both the boards and the lidded boxes, and undertake out all design development and functionaltesting of these ‘completely new’ products.
