Medical coating manufacturer, Raleigh Coatings, improves efficiency with the help of WMG Digital Manufacturing tool kit

By WMG
schedule12th Nov 20

Medical wound dressing manufacturers continue their WMG journey through pre-funded digital manufacturing offering, internship programme, and now an ongoing Knowledge Transfer Partnership to take their business performance to the next level.

Challenge

Raleigh Coatings are one of the world-leading wound dressing and silicone gel coating manufacturers. Raleigh wanted to investigate ways to move to 100% automated inspection on their perforation process, freeing the machine operators to focus on other value-add activities, and offering a complete quality guarantee to their customers. Due to the nature of the adhesive gel, the workshop needs to be kept at a cool 5°C, making continuous, manual inspection challenging. A camera-based system seemed appropriate, but it needed to be something that could be cost-effective to cover all machines across all three of Raleigh’s lines.

Solution

Read the full article here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/wmg/business/success-stories/raleighcoatings/ 


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