INGUNN / Why to use

Patients First

Care staff should spend their time with people — not walking through corridors or waiting for elevators.

Nursing homes depend on many small but necessary transport tasks throughout the day. Each task may take only a few minutes, but together they account for a significant share of staff working time.

INGUNN is designed to take over repetitive transport tasks, such as moving dirty laundry and waste, as well as collecting and delivering consumables.

Less transport

More patient time

Better use of expertise

Greater flexibility

More time for care

Care staff waiting by an elevator during a manual transport task

Transport Tasks Take Time Away from Patients

Staff spend a significant amount of time collecting supplies, transporting dirty laundry and waste, and delivering food, consumables, and clean laundry to the different departments.

These are necessary tasks that must be carried out, but workflow analyses show that as much as 30–40% of working time may be spent on such transport activities.

This raises an important question: Is it appropriate for healthcare professionals with several years of education and training to spend such a large share of their working time on transport tasks, rather than on patient care and other activities that require their professional expertise?

Diagram illustrating how reduced transport time can create more patient-facing time

From Transport Time to Patient Time

When transport tasks are automated by robots, time is freed up for patient-facing work. This means more health and care services for the resources available, higher service quality, and greater flexibility in adapting staffing to future needs.

Thus, the value of using INGUNN is not solely in automating the transport itself, but how it allows healthcare staff to spend their working day.

It frees up professional expertise and valuable time, so that more of the working day can be devoted to what matters most: the patients.

Diagram illustrating how more patient-facing time can help reduce incidents

More Patient Time Means Fewer Incidents

By reducing the time spent on transport tasks, the risk of falls and other minor or major incidents can be reduced.

This means that more patient-facing time can be devoted to health and care services, rather than to dealing with the consequences of preventable incidents.

More transport automation means more professional time can be devoted to what matters most: the patients.

Care staff spending time with an elderly patient

Some Tasks Are Perfect for Robots

Transport tasks are often repetitive, time-consuming, and physically demanding.

This is exactly where INGUNN can make an immediate difference — by taking over tasks that would otherwise consume valuable time and energy from healthcare staff.

Transport workflows INGUNN can support

Laundry transport Waste transport Supply refill Floor-to-floor logistics Scheduled transport tasks On-demand internal transport

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