PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTION

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Ensure zero re-designs, replacements and failures for your drug production line

In pharmaceutical manufacturing, every process must run with absolute precision, repeatability, and regulatory compliance. Ensuring validated system design and maximum equipment uptime is critical to protecting product quality, maintaining regulatory approval, and preventing costly production interruptions. Whether you are building a new production line or standardizing across existing facilities, you need connection solutions that support compliant operations without compromising performance or flexibility.

By working with Stäubli, pharmaceutical manufacturers, production line OEMs, and system integrators benefit from:

  • Local engineering support from specialists experienced in regulated pharma production environments and automation challenges
  • High-reliability electrical connections that reduce unplanned downtime and minimize mean time to repair (MTTR)
  • Standardized, modular interfaces across equipment, systems, and sites to simplify validation, qualification, and lifecycle maintenance

Built for Pharma 4.0, Stäubli connection solutions support automation, digitalization, and long-term system scalability - while reducing connector redesigns, replacements, and failure risks. The result: increased equipment availability, higher OEE, and long-term process reliability across every batch and production cycle.

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Stäubli can help you:

Develop a new drug production line

  • Reducing rework, requalification, and future troubleshooting caused by unreliable or poor-quality connectors.
  • Simplifying electrical and interface standardization across multiple drug production lines and sites.
  • Ensuring smooth assembly, installation, and commissioning without costly trial-and-error loops.

Automate drug production line

  • Preventing connector-related failures that impact uptime and increase maintenance under validated conditions.
  • Avoiding specification changes that trigger requalification, documentation updates, and regulatory risk.
  • Removing technical constraints that limit automation flexibility and future system upgrades.

Key benefits

Expert collaboration 

  • Work directly with Stäubli specialists to define optimized hybrid interfaces for power, signal, and fluid connections.
  • Early technical collaboration accelerates design finalization, simplifies validation processes, and supports future system upgrades without disruptive rework.

Component reliability

  • Field-proven connector systems engineered for continuous operation in regulated pharmaceutical production environments.
  • Seamless, sealed housing designs with high resistance to aggressive cleaning agents and mechanical stress, reducing maintenance effort and unplanned downtime.
  • Pre-configured, fully documented interfaces that support modular production concepts and enable future automation and scalability.

Smart standardization

  • Establish a unified interface standard across production lines, equipment suppliers, and sites to streamline integration, qualification, and validation processes.
  • Consistent specifications reduce spare-part complexity and minimize procurement, engineering, and lifecycle management effort.

TESTIMONIAL

“We appreciate Stäubli’s customer oriented approach, just like the approach we use with our customers,” says Jonas Rubitschung, CEO of Rubitec AG. “The CombiTac uniq system from Stäubli is an exceptionally reliable and compact coupling system that offers fast, safe, and simple handling for our customers. And our lead engineer has been using the intuitive online CombiTac Configurator for years to quickly and easily set up the connector configurations we need in just a few clicks.” 

- Jonas Rubitschung, CEO of Rubitec AG

Stäubli modular connectors

Modular connector design

Stäubli’s modular connectors support power, signal, data, and fluid connections in one interface, meeting the high technical and compliance requirements of modern pharmaceutical production.

Plug-and-Play

Seamless compatibility reduces engineering and qualification effort while ensuring reliable, validated performance.

Dedicated contact person

Direct access to a local Stäubli specialist, not a generic hotline or shared inbox. Ensuring fast, personal support when you need it.

Space-saving design

Enables more compact machine footprints and more efficient production line layouts.

Shielding and signal integrity

Effective shielding ensures stable data transmission and accurate sensor signals for consistent, reproducible results.

Online configurator

Our online configurator enables fast, accurate connector configuration directly to your BOM and technical documentation.

Module traceability

Each component carries a unique QR code for fast identification, accurate maintenance, and full lifecycle traceability.

Stable low-resistance current paths

Our MULTILAM technology ensures consistently low contact resistance over up to 100,000 mating cycles for reliable, stable production.

Success Story

CombiTac: Driving Rubitec’s custom containment solutions

Rubitec AG is a trusted specialist in designing and building advanced containment systems for filling and emptying stations - critical components in modular production environments. To ensure these systems deliver maximum safety, efficiency, and flexibility, Rubitec relies on Stäubli’s CombiTac modular connector system.

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Expert support for highest reliability in pharmaceutical production

From formulation to final filling, pharmaceutical manufacturing requires connector solutions that combine validated performance, cleanability, and reliable data transmission. In highly regulated and automated environments, even minor connection issues can impact product quality, compliance, and uptime.

With Stäubli as your partner, you gain access to proven connection technology and local engineering expertise that help ensure compliant processes, maximize equipment availability, and maintain consistent product quality across every batch.