A substrate processing system for an electronic device manufacturing system can include a factory interface forming an interior volume, and a partition disposed in the factory interface. The partition can divide the interior volume into a first factory interface chamber forming a second interior volume, and a second factory interface chamber forming a third interior volume. The partition can be configured to provide a first sealed environment in the first factory interface chamber and a second sealed environment in the second factory interface chamber.

A robotic arm comprising a first arm portion, a second arm portion, the second arm portion moveable between a first axial position, in which the first arm portion and the second arm portion are mutually spaced from each other along said axis, and a second axial position, in which a first end of first arm portion and a second end of the second arm portion are in contact to define a housing, a head rotatable with respect to the first arm portion and around said axis; and a robotic joint. The joint is configured for adopting an operative condition, to make the second arm portion integral with the head. The robotic arm is configured so that said operative condition corresponds to said second axial position and said second angular position and the robotic arm is configured so that, in said operative condition, the joint is located within said housing.

A containment system and assembly for the automated production of pharmaceutical or biotechnical articles is provided. The containment system has a housing within which there is an inner chamber having at least one through opening. One or more robots are installed in the chamber, which have a manipulating element on the pivotable arms, which can move within a pivot range. One or more process units are installed in the chamber for the production of the articles. The chamber includes a process space for the production of the articles and a tub-shaped base space for anchoring the feet of the robots to the side surfaces inside the base space. The manipulating element functions as a gripping and transportation device for inspecting the articles or article parts and/or for the production of the articles.

A production device including an isolator housing to receive functional components of the production device and products in an interior of the production device and to hermetically seal the components from the surroundings. The production device includes at least one robot received in the isolator housing, wherein the robot is one or more of operable to carry out specific tasks or operable to be remotely controllable by means of a remote controller. The production device includes at least one linear movement unit received in the isolator housing and configured to move the at least one robot long a linear movement axis. The production device includes at least one control unit to control one or more of a movement or an operation of the at least one robot.

A work glove is installed at the port flange, with the result that the operator can enter the working chamber of the containment in a protected manner. A multiplicity of port flanges are usually mounted on the containment and a work glove is fastened in each case to the respective port flange. Machinery for processing material to be treated is often set up in the working chamber. In order to temporarily block the access, a shut-off part which can be moved into a blocking position and an open position is provided. In order to record personal data relating to the operator, the arrangement has a capture unit which has a connection to a microcontroller.

An industrial robot includes a robot control configured to execute a robot program and a robot arm having a plurality of links connected by joints. The joints are configured to automatically adjust the links relative to one another according to the robot program, wherein at least one of the joints is configured as a rotary joint that connects a first link of the plurality of links to an adjacent second link for rotation relative to one another. The first link comprises a shaft sealing ring that has a sealing lip formed from a PTFE material, and the second link has a shaft portion with a running surface formed from a PTFE material, on which the shaft sealing ring bears with its sealing lip in a sealing manner. A method for moving the robot arm in a clean room is also disclosed.

An apparatus and method are described for the automated management of bacterial load detector devices to be temporarily positioned inside a clean room, delimited by walls, at least one of which is provided with at least one access aperture on which a primary closing unit is installed, configured to allow access to the inside of the chamber while keeping its atmosphere isolated and separated from the external environment. The apparatus includes a transport container, containing inside it an extractable housing slider on which one or more bacterial load detector devices are positioned, an extraction device configured to extract the slider from the transport container and make it available inside the chamber, and a support device disposed inside the chamber configured to stably position and support the slider.

Systems and methods are disclosed, which permit filling containers with a product. A filling arm is disposed within a chamber and an optical sensor is configured to sense openings of the containers within the chamber. Locations of the sensed openings are used to guide the filling arm to fill the containers with a product.

The present invention is to provide an industrial robot, which is placed in vacuum for use, capable of efficiently cooling down hand- or arm-driving motors which are arranged inside the arm in air. The industrial robot is provided with a motor for rotating a second arm unit with respect to a first arm unit, a motor for rotating a hand with respect to the second arm unit, a reduction gear for reducing the rotation of the motor and transmitting it to the second arm unit, and a reduction gear for reducing the rotation of the motor and transmitting it to the hand; the hand and the arm are placed in vacuum. The reduction gears and are coaxially arranged so that the center of rotation of the second arm unit with respect to the first arm unit coincides with the axial centers of the reduction gears. The interior space of the hollow first arm unit is kept at atmospheric pressure in which the motors and the reduction gears are arranged.

Equipment for packaging products, and re-packaging previously packaged products, for promoting use of the products. The products can be products for pharmaceutical or medical use, or the like, being in the form of a blister, containing respective pharmaceutical forms, i.e., in the form of packages, such as boxes, containing a respective article or a drug, i.e., in the form of other articles, by way of example vials, syringes for injections or other, inserted in corresponding containers, in the form of pouches, and being usable, in a re-packaged form, by corresponding entities, such as hospitals or the like, for the therapeutic treatment, especially of people. The equipment includes a device for loading the products, a device for discharging the products packaged by the equipment, and a controller for controlling the equipment. The loading device receives the products to be packaged in a random loading configuration.