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Tecan

Products: lab-automation. Risk band: Low   RobotRisk index 7.3/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 89th percentile of 162 medical robotics companies.

Analyst brief

Tecan's record shows three entries spanning 2014 to 2016, all FDA recalls of laboratory/diagnostic instruments: a Class III recall of the Infinite 200PRO (severity 2) in 2014, a Class II recall of the Infinite F500 in vitro diagnostic system (severity 3) in 2015, and a Class II recall of the SUNRISE instrument (severity 3) in 2016. The index of 7.4 and percentile of 88.8 place the company high within the medical-robotics category, reflecting a multi-year recurrence of regulatory recalls rather than a single event. The record is entirely regulator-driven, consisting exclusively of FDA recall classifications with no press-originated incidents. The pattern shows repeated product-quality actions on laboratory automation equipment over a three-year span, with severity concentrated in the low-to-moderate FDA recall classes rather than injury or fatality events.

Entries by year and severity

012015 S3: 11152016 S3: 1116
S1S2S3S4S5

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Yearly entries vs category average

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Incident log (3 unique incidents)

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S307/25
2016
recall FDA Class II recall: SUNRISE instrument. · SUNRISE instrument. openFDA enforcement
S305/29
2015
recall FDA Class II recall: Infinite F500, in vitro diagnostic. · Infinite F500, in vitro diagnostic. openFDA enforcement
S211/10
2014
recall FDA Class III recall: Infinite 200PRO · Infinite 200PRO openFDA enforcement

Alternatives in medical robotics

Intuitive SurgicalStryker MakoMedtronic HugoAsensus SurgicalCMR SurgicalAuris Health (J&J MedTech)Noah MedicalOmnicell
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