History of pharmacy automation

When you go to a big store with lots of medicine bottles, have you ever wondered how they keep track of all those pills? Well, a long time ago, before people knew much about medicine, they used to use plants and herbs to treat illnesses. But as time went on, scientists discovered new medicines that could be made in a lab.

As more and more people started taking these new medicines, it became harder and harder for people to keep track of all the different pills and medicines. That's when they started to create machines that could help them.

The first machines they made were just simple pill counters. These machines could quickly count out a specific number of pills to fill up a bottle. But as medicines got more complicated and there were more bottles to keep track of, they needed even more advanced machines.

That's when they came up with machines called dispensing systems. These machines are like little robots that can find the right medicine bottle, open it up, and put the right amount of medicine in a bottle. They even have cameras and scanners that can make sure they are putting the right medicine in the right bottle.

As technology got even better, they were able to connect all of these machines together. This meant that they could track all of the medicine in the store all at once. This made it easier to keep track of how much medicine they had and when they needed to get more.

Nowadays, pharmacies use all kinds of automation to keep track of their medicine. They have machines that can fill prescriptions, machines that can count pills, and machines that can even talk to your doctor's office to make sure you are getting the right medicine. All of these machines work together to help pharmacists keep you and your family healthy and safe.