ANNIQUE

Mosadex E-Health makes innovative software solutions to contribute to the optimization of patient care in the Netherlands. Together with its sister companies they support pharmacies with innovative pharmacy concepts. One of the sister companies is Mosadex Central Filling. Mosadex Central Filling is a sorting company that sorts medicines from wholesalers into prescriptions for pharmacies. This is done through cabinets that “spit out” the correct products when a prescription is requested. These products then come onto a conveyor belt and fall together into a basket.

The input of cabinets can be optimized to get the maximum number of recipes out of the robot. However, the different sizes of the products must be taken into account, because not all products fit in these cabinets because they are too heavy or too large, for example. A typical example of a fun mathematical problem!

Together with Sijmen and Dennis, I built a Greedy sorting algorithm in Python to determine which products should go into the robot and in which place. This allows the filling process, where the cabinets are filled manually by employees, to be as efficient as possible.

This sorting algorithm actually counts how many combinations there are of all the recipes and sorts them from high to low. Simply, the combinations that are most common are sorted into the cabinets first, until the cabinets are full.

I worked on this project from February through June. Dennis and Sijmen are now continuing on this project as a couple, so I am looking for a new project. So if any of you could use a Data Scientist in your current project, feel free to send me a message 🙂