Due to demand in the industry the customer needed to increase throughput of sample measurements with their freezing point osmometer. Their current system was operated by manually feeding multiple osmometers with samples.
Custom Systems and Controls was asked to design and fabricate the hardware and proof of concept programming for the robot. The automated system needed to effectively perform this process and attain a throughput of over 100 samples per hour with the following specifications:
CSC designed and built a system on our ROBOKIT platform that integrated 8 osmometers and was able to measure 96 samples in approximately 35 minutes.
Some features of this project are:
The client was able to introduce the world’s fastest freezing point osmometer (at the time) to the biotechnology industry at the 2007 BioProcess International show. This machine received CE and ETL Listing on its first trip to the testing lab.