Ginolis
Ushering Automation to MedTech Industry

Teijo Fabritius, an electronics automation assembly executive, with an extensive history in the development of assembly automation for the consumer electronics industry, resolved to develop unique technology for the manual intensive diagnostic sector. To make this dream come true, Fabritius established Ginolis, a Finland based company, in 2010, and set out to provide cutting-edge automation solutions for the medical device industries. The company provides highquality automated solutions for the assembly and production of medical device components, such as point-of-care diagnostics, microfluidic devices, insulin pumps, drug delivery applications, and test cartridges. The company aims to be one of the pioneering global systems suppliers in the diagnostics industry to enable the shift to automated production, specializes in assembly automation, high precision liquid handling, and quality inspection solutions for the global MedTech industries.

Ginolis achieves its position in the medical device manufacturing space by focusing on automation, liquid handling, and quality inspection. In automation technology, the company provides high-quality operation within a compact footprint. Further, the automation technology of Ginolis bolsters assembly automation, Lateral Flow Device Assembly (LFDA), and quality inspection. Through assembly automation, the company provides customized solutions to its clients based on its modular automation platform that enables high-quality production and machine vision for quality assurance. LFDA offers manufacturers flexible production capacity on a compact scale and assembles multiple devices on one system with minimal changeover time. The quality inspection ensures the products meeting the highest quality control standards, with innovative and flexible automation, novel optical sensors, and statistical process control (SPC).

Liquid handling of Ginolis provides innovative solutions such as Cecilia Dispenser and custom dispensing and printing based on its modular automation platforms and patented piezo motor bellows (PMB) pump technology. Fabritius’ high regard for the pump is evident from his remark at the company’s website during the launch of the product, “The new model allows us to offer a wider range of customers the opportunity to use our state-of-the-art PMBi Pump, integrated into their own automation platforms.” The patented PMB technology supports high precision dispensing, printing, pipetting, aspirating, and coating applications. Cecilia Dispenser — an extremely accurate non-contact dispensing and aspirating solution — delivers highperformance liquid handling on a compact scale. And custom dispensing and printing solutions are compact, customerspecific liquid handling solutions for reagent dispensing, array printing, pipetting, and surface treatment applications.

In quality inspection, Genolis uses 3D metrology and provides innovative and flexible automation solutions, namely Pixie quality inspection, Fastlap quality inspection, and Custom quality inspection with novel optical sensors. Pixie is a standard system for high speed automated optical quality inspection suitable for a wide variety of medical devices and diagnostic components. Besides, Fastlap is a fast, accurate, and fully automated inspection unit for syringes, pipette tips, vials, and tubes. Custom quality inspection is a compact, customerspecific solution utilizing machine vision, optical sensors, and statistical process control.

Ginolis, besides these state-of-the-art technologies and products, has also developed automation platforms operated and controlled by Ginger software platforms, namely Delilah and Xanthia. Delilah, a multi-functional automation platform for diagnostic test manufacturing and laboratory processes, increases process productivity by introducing multi-functional high accuracy operation within a compact footprint and gives users significant cost savings in cleanroom operation. On the other hand, Xanthia is a modular automation platform for the production and processing of micro components, diagnostics, and medical device products. Through this platform, Ginolis offers fast, accurate, and precise operation on a compact scale.

While the broad technical knowledge base of Ginolis helps them optimize the manufacturing strategy of the customer, the company also goes the extra mile and provides the best in class service offerings that scale from product development to validation.