| Summary: | 碩士 === 中華大學 === 工業管理學系 === 105 === Since 1980 to 2014, the world's diabetes population increased from 108 million to 422 million, it is estimated that by 2025 will increase to 700 million people, an increase of 65%. Home-style hand-held blood glucose meter and its test piece has become an indispensable tool for daily detection of diabetes, so the future of such products in the market will have a huge business opportunities.
After 2013, the US government in order to control medical spending does not exceed the GDP 20% of the budget pressure, which for blood glucose testing equipment to reduce the amount of up to 72%, resulting in the blood glucose meter manufacturers have to lower the terminal price to enhance the total size. However, because the terminal price is low, how to reduce production costs become the industry will eventually face the subject, so the introduction of blood glucose test pieces of automated production, for blood glucose test piece manufacturers is also an inevitable trend.
In the process of forming a blood glucose test piece, the industry more use of stamping molding, but when the stamping process convert to automation equipment will face more problems. And the cutting process will be considered options, but the composition of the test strips will stick to the knife caused by sticky and affect the yield, Therefore, the corresponding Screen-Printable Hydrophilic adhesive of PET (polyethylene terephthalate, hereinafter referred to as PET) corresponding to the cutting process should be modified to a suitable printing type first before convert into the cutting process. Then compare to the equipment and labor costs derived from the stamping and cutting process for the test stripe and create a cost function, then making t-test analysis to confirm whether the cost of the two processes have significant differences. Due to production costs directly affect the competitiveness of the enterprises, Expect this study helps the domestic gluecose test strip industry and to develop a stable and low-cost test strip, so that diabetes patients may have low cost and high precision blood gluecose meter selection and no longer worry about the price of test strip supplies, or give up blood glucose self-monitoring or delayed treatment.
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