Design and Development of Automatic Sterile Bag Cutting Machine
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In the recent past, medical personnel often used manual scissors or paper cutting boards to cut sterile bags or pouches containing sterile medical supplies. These bags are used to contain equipment necessary for medical procedures that must be free from pathogens. However, manual cutting methods posed risks to users, resulted in cutting delays, and lacked precision. This led to increased resource loss and expenses. Consequently, the research team designed and developed an automatic sterile bag cutter using knowledge of the Geneva mechanism and automated control systems. This innovation aims to reduce the workload of medical personnel and enable cutting of sterile bags to desired sizes. The sterile bag cutter can cut bags of three widths: 5.5 centimeters, 7.5 centimeters, and 10 centimeters. Test results revealed that the least deviation in cutting sterile bags was 0.44% when cutting a 10-centimeter-wide sterile bag with a length of 9 centimeters.
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