Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions). Our first question comes from Steven Crowley with Craig-Hallum Capital Group.
Steven Crowley - Craig-Hallum Capital Group
Good afternoon, gentlemen. Another nice quarter.
Rob Seim
Thank you, Steve.
Steven Crowley - Craig-Hallum Capital Group
I want to ask you a little bit, you have pointed out about central pharmacy opportunity and some early successes there. Could you pan us a little picture of the size of that opportunity, the market penetration so far and the timeline that you think is realistic for that segment to become significant?
Rob Seim
Well, that's a pretty early market segment actually. There is not much of the industry that's penetrated. It's quite a bit less than 10%. The hospitals in the United States have central pharmacy automation equipment. We provide a nice line and nice suite of products there for inventorying, controlling the assets, controlling narcotics and for repackaging and bar coding. We just completed a new version of the software that greatly enhances the workflow amongst those various solutions in the central pharmacy. And I just announced that recently, we are very happy with that. And we are very happy with how the data's were from the customers that we've talked about. Overall, that market we believe is somewhere in the range of $1 billion to $2 billion. So, it's a pretty good untapped opportunity.
Steven Crowley - Craig-Hallum Capital Group
Great. A similar line of questions, maybe an update more on your operating room/anesthesia, the workstations. I've seen more and more in your press releases about customer orders and customer wins. There is also a landscape item that maybe you could address. Your competitor Pyxis has half an issues out in the field with the performance of their system. Could you bring it up to speed on kind of the landscape from that opportunity and how it's progressing?
Rob Seim
Well, I think both Pyxis and ourselves are seeing more and more inclusion of the operating room in the medication automation that's taking place in various hospitals when they are put in new systems. The Anesthesia Workstations are a little bit different than the rest of the product line and that they not only serve the pharmacists and nurses but it serve constituency and doctors now have a number of features that are unique to the anesthesiologist operating or working in the operating room.
Yeah. Those systems as you mentioned are a larger piece of our business, kind of a growing piece of our business. But that piece of the hospital is very un-penetrated. And we estimate that there is less than 2% of the operating rooms that are actually automated. You mentioned Pyxis now in a little bit of difficulty, I don't think that's anything really significant in the marketplace. And I hope they get thorough that just fine. We certainly won't want anybody in any operating room to have any difficulty getting to the medications. We find more and more hospitals embracing that solution and we are happy with how that's going.
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