Rowa automation systems
| Becton Dickinson Rowa Germany GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1996 |
| Seat | Kelberg , Germany |
| management | Antonios Vonofakos, Khanh Lieu, Matthias Kreling, Sebastian Heuer |
| Number of employees | over 460 |
| sales | approx. € 125 million (as of 2016) |
| Branch | Mechanical engineering , automation |
| Website | rowa.de |
The Rowa automation systems is a 1996 automation systems as Rowa GmbH in Kelberg established company and under the present company name Becton Dickinson Rowa GmbH Germany market leader for automated warehouse in pharmacies and hospitals , so-called picking systems .
In the systems, the drugs are scanned, stored and delivered to the pharmacy's sales counter via conveyor technology. The company, based in Kelberg / Eifel, employs over 300 people. Subsidiaries exist in Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden. In 2011 Rowa achieved sales of approx. 64 million euros, making it one of the 100 companies with the highest sales in Rhineland-Palatinate. Rowa was integrated into the American medical technology company CareFusion, San Diego, in 2011.
history
CareFusion 326 GmbH (formerly Rowa Automatisierungssysteme GmbH) was founded in 1996 by Rudolf Wagner and Markus Willems. The management was expanded in 2006 by Dirk Wingenter and in 2009 by Christian Klas. Jean-Michel Deckers has been part of the management team since 2011.
The business idea arose from the suggestion of a pharmacist couple who wanted to make the work processes of the pharmacy easier. In 1997 the first automated warehouse was installed in a pharmacy in Dresden, and to this day 4,000 pharmacies and hospitals around the world are using Rowa systems. At the world exhibition Expo 2000, the pharmacy of the future "PharmaXie" was equipped with a picking system from Rowa.
Products
Rowa produces and sells automatic warehouses for pharmacies. These systems are manufactured individually for each pharmacy or each hospital and store the drug boxes chaotically according to size and height class, like in a high-bay warehouse .
In addition, there are extensions such as fully automatic storage or an advisory and dispensing terminal for pharmacies, in which the patient is advised via video conference and the medication dispensed remotely. This so-called Visavia system is legally controversial in Germany and, according to a ruling by the Federal Administrative Court (Az. 3 C 30.09 and 31.09), it was only permitted in part functions. The terminal is used in full abroad.
Memberships
- IDA - Innovation Academy of German Pharmacies
- Future Care - information platform for TeleHealth from the industry association BITKOM
- MiA - Marketing Association of Innovative Pharmacy Service Providers
swell
- The entrepreneur talk: Rudolf Wagner, founder and managing director of CareFusion 326 GmbH- "Pharmacists get more time and space". ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 156 kB) In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. March 15, 2010.
- When robots get medicine. ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 312 kB) In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. June 8, 2010.
- Machine sales: The pharmacy as a self-service shop. In: Handelsblatt. June 24, 2010.
- Judgment of the BVerwG of August 9, 2010 ( Az. 3 C 30.09 ( Memento of June 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) and 09/31 ( Memento of June 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ))
- Top 100 - The companies with the highest turnover in Rhineland-Palatinate. (Ranking list of the Rheinland-Pfalz Bank, as of October 2010)
- CareFusion completes Rowa acquisition ( Memento from August 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), August 1, 2011