Once again, this year, numerous robotics, laboratory and pharmaceutical experts gathered for the presentation of the RAYA Award. The global pharmaceutical company Roche, based in Basel, hosted the event.
ISPE D/A/CH is the German-speaking section of the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE), the largest global non-profit organisation in the pharmaceutical industry. ISPE brings together experts from academia, industry and government to promote progress along the entire pharmaceutical life cycle. To promote the use of modern robotics in the pharmaceutical industry, ISPE presents the annual Robotics Application of the Year (RAYA) Award, which recognizes outstanding robotic applications for the pharmaceutical industry. The aim is to publicize new developments in laboratory automation and to bring them into use as quickly as possible and in large numbers in production facilities and laboratories.
TraceBot implements pioneering software trends in the pharmaceutical industry
The RAYA Award honors technical innovations that relieve workplaces of ergonomic challenges and monotonous tasks, making them more attractive. The award therefore recognizes solutions that increase the availability, efficiency and quality of pharmaceutical products in the long term.
These goals have already been taken up by a Europe-wide team in the TraceBot innovation project and implemented in a robotics solution for the pharmaceutical laboratory. For this reason, the TraceBot project, which is funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 program, received the RAYA Award in the category ‘Future software trends in the pharmaceutical industry’ this year.
The jury praised TraceBot for its significant contribution to pharmaceutical innovation: “The funded project TraceBot makes an important contribution to leading trends in the pharmaceutical industry by developing software applications that facilitate approval processes with the help of modern robotics solutions. In addition, TraceBot supports the expansion of the use of robotic applications and contributes to shortening time-to-market, which can lead to faster approval processes in the pharmaceutical industry in the long term.
The international team of the TraceBot funding project comments that it is delighted that its work has been recognised. Project coordinator Maike Neumann accepted the RAYA Award on behalf of all TraceBot colleagues at the award ceremony in the state-of-the-art premises of the global pharmaceutical company Roche in Basel.
Maike Neumann says: “With our TraceBot funding project launched in 2021, we want to support companies in implementing modern robotics solutions in their laboratories. Receiving the RAYA Award means a lot to us because it shows that we are addressing an important need with our goals and that our progress and results are being recognized by international experts from business and science.”