Researchers and students from two University of South Carolina colleges are collaborating with industry partners to develop an innovative system that will greatly improve pharmaceutical manufacturing.

According to this recent news release, the College of Engineering and Computing and the College of Pharmacy are collaborating on the new automated system – utilizing Yaskawa Motoman’s flexible, high-speed  robots and Siemens processing power – to help Columbia-based company Nephron Pharmaceuticals solve one of the industry’s toughest problems: how to automate labor-intensive syringe-filling of small batch products safely and efficiently.

Learn more about the effort here.