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Autopharm

Automating pharmacies in India

Automation | Startup | Prototyping

A Startup Initiative

Year: 2018

Collaborators: Akash Pardasani, Dhananjay Pandey, Saif Ali

Funded

INR 200,000

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under Students Startup Action Programme

Conducted by: Industrial Research and Development (IRD), IIT Delhi

Background

Advanced technologies have made it easier to automate the repetitive tasks. With Autopharm, our aim was to automate Indian pharmacies.

We interviewed managers, owners, and workers from different pharmacies. Below are the insights from those interviews. It is worth mentioning that most of the workers in Indian pharmacies don't have any formal education in medicines and generally rely on their memory to complete an order.

Training

New workers take approaximately two years to master the way of working in pharmacies

Careless

Most pharmacy stores in India don't have any formalized system to keep track of medicine's expiry dates

Investment

A large chunk of income goes to worker's salary

Errors

Workers sometimes slip wrong or expired medicines by mistake

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A journey from failed but fun attempts to the first open display of the prototype

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FIN.

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