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PillPick Aria: Designed to Interface Seamlessly with Pharmacy Automation

Your first step toward safer, standardized medication dispensing without changing your entire pharmacy workflow.

Optimal for
Inpatient Pharmacy Consolidated Service Centers

PillPick Aria is a comprehensive unit‑dose packaging and verification system designed for hospital pharmacies and consolidated service centers looking to expand unit‑dose workflows with minimal operational disruption. It automates the repackaging of tablets, capsules, blisters, vials, ampoules, syringes, and cups into standardized, barcoded unit‑dose bags, delivering consistent quality, full traceability, and enhanced medication identification for safer downstream administration. As part of Swisslog Healthcare’s pharmacy automation ecosystem, PillPick Aria integrates seamlessly with systems like BoxPicker and existing distribution models, strengthening accuracy, efficiency, and medication safety across the medication management process.

PillPick Aria Is Made to Interface Seamlessly With Pharmacy Automation Systems

PillPick Aria is purpose‑built to integrate effortlessly into modern hospital pharmacies and consolidated service centers. When paired with complementary automation solutions like BoxPicker, it becomes part of a broader, scalable ecosystem that supports efficient, accurate, and safe medication management.

This interoperability allows pharmacies of all sizes to strengthen unit‑dose production without major workflow changes while maintaining full visibility and control of medication movement across their distribution models.

 

Unit‑Dose Packaging and Verification for Reliable Medication Identification

PillPick Aria automates the production of standardized barcoded unit‑dose bags, ensuring each dose is clearly labeled and traceable throughout the medication‑use process.

Key benefits include:

Automated Unit‑Dose Packaging

  • Packages tablets, capsules, blisters, vials, ampoules, and syringes into uniform unit‑dose bags.
  • Each packet includes a unique barcode and serialized identifier, supporting automated verification and bedside scanning.
  • Automatically adjusts bag length to the size of each medication, helping reduce material consumption and packaging waste.

 

Enhanced Traceability and Safety

  • Supports lot number, expiry date, and drug ID visibility, reducing the risk of medication selection errors.
  • Barcoded bags allow pharmacies and nursing units to scan and verify medications at multiple checkpoints for safer, compliant workflows.

 

Designed for Scalable Pharmacy Automation

While PillPick Aria functions as a powerful standalone solution, it is also designed for a long‑term automation strategy that evolves with your organization.

Hospitals can:

  1. Start with PillPick Aria to establish consistent, high‑quality unit‑dose production.
  2. Maintain existing storage and distribution workflows, including manual shelving, ADC replenishment, or BoxPicker‑supported inventory management.
  3. Scale to PillPick Octave when ready, adding automated high‑density storage, patient‑specific dispensing, and deeper pharmacy logistics automation.

 

This stepwise adoption model makes it easier to:

  • Build a sustainable financial justification.
  • Demonstrate operational improvements early.
  • Accelerate staff acceptance and adoption.
  • Expand without disrupting existing processes.

Minimal Disruption to Existing Pharmacy Workflows

A major advantage of PillPick Aria is its ability to slot into the workflow your pharmacy already uses. Instead of replacing storage, dispensing, or inventory systems, PillPick Aria enhances them by providing standardized, barcoded unit‑dose inventory. Your technicians can continue managing picking, replenishment, distribution, and ADC workflows as usual, now with safer, more consistent, scan‑ready doses.

 

Supporting Medication Safety and End‑to‑End Traceability

By producing uniform, verified unit‑doses, PillPick Aria strengthens safety protocols across every stage of medication handling.

It enables:

  • Reliable identification of each dose.
  • Barcode scanning during storage, picking, distribution, and bedside administration.
  • Better adherence to safety and traceability initiatives.
  • Reduced risk of misidentification or dosing errors.

 

This system helps ensure the right medication reaches the right patient at the right time with the highest possible accuracy.

PillPick Aria Modules:

  • BoxStation Plus

    Transfer originally packaged medications into secure canisters.

    Each canister receives:

    • Drug‑specific data encoded on an RFID tag
    • A barcoded label for verification

     

    Pharmacists verify medications before packaging to ensure compliance and accuracy.

  • AutoPhial

    A fully integrated module that overwraps medication formats such as blister cards, vials, ampoules, syringes, and cups.

    Provides automatic barcoding, storing, and dispensing for downstream automation.

    AutoPhial Plus (Optional Upgrade)

    Includes all capabilities of AutoPhial plus:

    • Precision ultrasound cutter for blister strips
    • Enhanced canister buffering
    • Optimized software for speed and accuracy

     

    Ideal for pharmacies requiring higher throughput and complex blister management.

  • AutoBox

    An automated turntable capable of loading up to 12 canisters into the packaging module.

    Reduces operator touchpoints and increases continuous system uptime.

  • PillPicker

    Packages individual medications into barcoded, labeled unit doses with a unique serial number, ensuring full traceability from original packaging all the way to the patient.