Environmental Scan 2017: Human Capital Issues within the Medical Devices Sector
Currently, only 42 % of the surgical / medical gloves manufacturers, 27 % of other medical consumables companies and 20 % of the non-consumables companies employ robots or other labour saving devices as part of the automation process. Most of these companies in the surgical / medical gloves segment employ between 3 to 8 robots / labour saving devices currently. Those in the other medical consumables segment employ between 2 to 8 robots / labour saving devices, whereas those in non-consumables segment employ between 1 to 3 robots / labour saving devices.
Moving forward, only 33 % of the surveyed surgical / medical gloves manufacturers, 15 % of the other medical consumables companies surveyed and 20 % of the surveyed non-consumables companies plan to deploy new robots / labour saving devices in the next 12 to 18 months.
Figure 3-53: Employment of robots or other labour saving devices as part of the automation process
TOTAL |
Surgical / Medical Gloves |
Other Medical Consumables |
Non-consumables |
27 %
employ robots / other labour saving devices
|
|
|
|
42 %
employ robots / other labour saving devices
|
|
|
27 %
employ robots / other labour saving devices
|
|
20 %
employ robots / other labour saving devices
|
( n = 62)( n = 12)( n = 30)
( n = 20)
Note: Companies that do not implement automation are not taken into consideration in this calculation
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