GB Innomech Ltd
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GB Innomech is a UK company that designs and develops custom automation systems
to help manufacturers reduce their costs, increase throughput and improve product quality.
The company integrates machine vision
, robotics
and other technologies to address customers manufacturing challenges and works in sectors such as pharmaceuticals, medical device
s and environmental product manufacturing, as well as laboratory automation
. All automation projects are developed using risk-based analysis and are usually supplied with documentation packages to enable machine and process validation. The company works to international industry standards, including pharmaceutical, such as U.S. Food and Drug Administration
, TickIT
, and Good Automated Manufacturing Practice
.
In September 2011, Innomech launched RoBox - a flexible automated workcell that uses re-programmable industrial robots to carry out labour-intensive, repetitive or hazardous product assembly or testing tasks. Company announcement
Innomech was founded in 1990 and is based at The Innovation Centre, Witchford
in Cambridgeshire. The company helped to design its own buildings for minimal environmental impact with features such as solar water heating
, a geothermal heat pump, an on-site biodigester, rainwater harvesting
and a building management system
for efficient energy usage. The company received three awards for the environmentally-friendly design of its building when it opened in 2004.
Innomech was given The Queen’s Award for International Trade
in 2009.
Automation
Automation is the use of control systems and information technologies to reduce the need for human work in the production of goods and services. In the scope of industrialization, automation is a step beyond mechanization...
to help manufacturers reduce their costs, increase throughput and improve product quality.
The company integrates machine vision
Machine vision
Machine vision is the process of applying a range of technologies and methods to provide imaging-based automatic inspection, process control and robot guidance in industrial applications. While the scope of MV is broad and a comprehensive definition is difficult to distil, a "generally accepted...
, robotics
Robotics
Robotics is the branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation, structural disposition, manufacture and application of robots...
and other technologies to address customers manufacturing challenges and works in sectors such as pharmaceuticals, medical device
Medical device
A medical device is a product which is used for medical purposes in patients, in diagnosis, therapy or surgery . Whereas medicinal products achieve their principal action by pharmacological, metabolic or immunological means. Medical devices act by other means like physical, mechanical, thermal,...
s and environmental product manufacturing, as well as laboratory automation
Laboratory Automation
Laboratory automation is a multi-disciplinary strategy to research, develop, optimize and capitalize on technologies in the laboratory that enable new and improved processes...
. All automation projects are developed using risk-based analysis and are usually supplied with documentation packages to enable machine and process validation. The company works to international industry standards, including pharmaceutical, such as U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Food and Drug Administration
The Food and Drug Administration is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, one of the United States federal executive departments...
, TickIT
TickIT
TickIT is a quality-management certification program for software development, supported primarily by the United Kingdom and Swedish software industries through UKAS and SWEDAC respectively....
, and Good Automated Manufacturing Practice
Good Automated Manufacturing Practice
Good Automated Manufacturing Practice is a trademark of the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering . The ISPE's guide The Good Automated Manufacturing Practice Guide for Validation of Automated Systems in Pharmaceutical Manufacture describes a set of principles and procedures that...
.
In September 2011, Innomech launched RoBox - a flexible automated workcell that uses re-programmable industrial robots to carry out labour-intensive, repetitive or hazardous product assembly or testing tasks. Company announcement
Innomech was founded in 1990 and is based at The Innovation Centre, Witchford
Witchford
Witchford is a small village near Ely in Cambridgeshire, England.Witchford houses the secondary school Witchford Village College that serves all of the surrounding villages, including Haddenham, Little Thetford, Mepal, Stretham, Sutton, Wilburton and Witcham.The village hosts the Grunty Fen Half...
in Cambridgeshire. The company helped to design its own buildings for minimal environmental impact with features such as solar water heating
Solar water heating
Solar water heating or solar hot water systems comprise several innovations and many mature renewable energy technologies that have been well established for many years...
, a geothermal heat pump, an on-site biodigester, rainwater harvesting
Rainwater harvesting
Rainwater harvesting is the accumulating and storing of rainwater for reuse before it reaches the aquifer. It has been used to provide drinking water, water for livestock, water for irrigation, as well as other typical uses. Rainwater collected from the roofs of houses and local institutions can...
and a building management system
Building Management System
A Building Management System is a computer-based control system installed in buildings that controls and monitors the building’s mechanical and electrical equipment such as ventilation, lighting, power systems, fire systems, and security systems...
for efficient energy usage. The company received three awards for the environmentally-friendly design of its building when it opened in 2004.
Innomech was given The Queen’s Award for International Trade
The Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade (Export) (2009)
The Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade was awarded on 21 April.-Recipients:The following organisations were awarded this year.* ATB Morley Ltd of Stanningley, Leeds for application specific high voltage electric motors....
in 2009.