In Medical Tubing, The Real KPI is Not Cutting Speed — It is Traceability
In food packaging, speed is a very natural metric. But the medical industry operates with a completely different logic. For medical tubings — catheter segments, ventilator tubes, etc. — speed is usually not number one. The top priority is traceability followed by repeatability. Because the output of this industry is not placed on a retail shelf — it enters processes directly linked to human life.
That is why in servo driven hose cutting systems such as AT-HC, the real topic is not cuts per minute — it is deviation stability and proof of process. Today’s medical manufacturers do not ask “how many cuts did we produce?”. They ask “what is the statistical distribution of these cuts?”. Planning departments now operate based on SPC (statistical process control) logic.
And this leads to a very clear reality: medical production is not an industry of producing parts; it is an industry of producing evidence. Regulatory frameworks like FDA, ISO 13485, MDR force every parameter to be recorded in digital evidence, not in notebooks. Which means: buying a cutting machine is not buying a device — it is buying a regulatory compliant data generator.
Therefore in the medical domain, the value of a machine is not how fast it produces, but how well it can prove its behaviour. And automation is what makes this possible today. Data is not a side element of engineering — data is now the primary raw material of engineering.
