Project Description

Summary of Work: Our client needed to automate a labor-intensive manual filling process to improve quality, throughput, and reduce labor costs. However, their custom leashed-cap microtubes presented a significant challenge; no off-the-shelf equipment could accommodate this type of tube. Intense Engineering rose to the challenge and developed an automated system to do that and more, with a list of requirements including:

• Throughput of up to 20 tubes/min
• 4 different 2mL leashed cap microtubes
• 2μL - 2mL fill volumes with 2% CV accuracy/precision
• In-line fill presence inspection
• Water, ethanol, and glycerol based reagents
• Automatic tube feeding system (1,200 tube capacity)
• Easy change over with disposable product contact parts
• Compact (fits on benchtop or inside laminar flow hood)
• Integrated reagent cooling