Lab Services at Miptec with a new robot

September 2011, as since many years Lab Services was present again at Miptec in Basel with one of our star products: PlateButler. We have a very important new development within PlateButler to show!!  Please see the NEW ROBOT moving at Miptec.

We are very pleased to introduce the PreciseFlex 400 Robot integrated into our PlateButler system. The integration itself went very smooth, thanks to our great PlateButler V3 software. Within a few hours we had the robot integrated and running on the system! Ready for shipment to MipTec. All three days of the MipTec event, Mr. Brian Powell of Precise Automation joined us at our booth. The robot created a lot of interest!

The PreciseFlex 400 Plate Handling Robot, is one of the latest Robot developments with very unique control facilities. The very quiet robot saves valuable workspace and can reach into a row and stack of equipment.

Just plug the robot in and it's ready to work. There is no controller integration required so this results in much less setup time and a much smaller equipment footprint. "Freemode" teaching saves time compared to using a pendant and special "gravity compensation" helps make moving the robot by hand require little effort.

Precise Automation key benefits
-    Five axis plate handling robot including
     electric gripper for portrait or landscape
-    Standard 400mm Z axis stroke
-    Maximum payload of 1Kg
-    Standard reach of 550mm to center of
     gripped plate
-    Repeatability at 18-22C of +/- 0.200mm
-    Communication interfaces include Ethernet,
     RS-232, RS-485 and Digital I/O
-    You get what you see... no extended        
      controller

@ Lab-Services!

Earlier this year we organized a company-family-day. Together with our husband/boyfriend or wife/girlfriend and our children we were expected at Fredriek's house. Fredriek kept it a big secret what we were going to do until we entered here house..

First we received an invitation including route description. I didn't think I needed it because my husband and I have a navigation system. But, as I should have known, Fredriek made it with a good reason. The bridge that we needed to cross to get to her village was blocked. She knew that and tried to help us. But I, as many of my other colleagues, was pigheaded and used our navigation anyway. We all arrived about 30 minutes late. 

When we entered Fredriek's kitchen it was clear to us immediately that the dinner was not going to be served to the table. We saw a lot of raw vegetables, meat and an octopus. Fortunately Jolanda's husband was willing to clean and prepare the octopus. Jolanda and I needed to cook risotto, including fresh peeled peas, a lot of work but it tasted great.

Ferry made bread dough with the children. I think the children had more dough on there hands and in there hear then there was in the bowl. Anyway, the children had a lot of fun! When the children were ready and washed off they baked there own bread in the campfire, when ready they put a sausage in it to create a hotdog. A lot of men were taking care of the campfire and barbeque. They also checked regularly if the beer was cold enough.
Fortunately Fredriek also invited a "real" cook to help us out. So after a few hours we could join the table. And I must say, we all did a very good job.
It was delicious including the octopus. 

Off course it didn't work out exactly how it should with everyone. I remember a dessert that supposed to look like jelly but somehow it now looked like a kind of rubber with cherries in it. I will not mention the name of these persons to avoid teasing.

Afterwards we all received an empty book so we can create our own recipe book.
We all had fun this day and we hope to get together soon again. Off course I will keep it in mind that I can always use it for my column.

Regards,

Ingrid

This Crocodile won't bite

Titertek Berthold developed a compact, fully automated, high performance ELISA workstation for low to medium throughput. The Crocodile miniWorkstation.

The Crocodile provides the same functionality as five individual instruments in a footprint similar to a standard stand-alone-reader.
It allows you to:

-    Walk away during the compleet ELISA assay!
-    You don't have to wait anymore!
-    You can take a coffebreak or do something else!

Your personal ELISA automation
-    A compact workstation that fits anywhere
-    Easy system setup
-    Precision dispensing
-    Up to four dispense reagents
-    Consistent and precise washing
-    Up to three wash buffers
-    Incubation from ambient +5 to 55C
-    Fast and accurate OD-reading
-    Most intuitive PC-software

Facts

-    You could have seen a PlateButler system at JAIMA 2011 in Tokyo
     on our Japanese Distributor stand.

-    We presented our new Robot at MipTec 2011 in Basel!

-     You want to see our new baby!?; please visit us in Breda or at booth 544 of
     SLAS2012 in San Diego, USA from February 4th till 8th.

-    SampleNavigator in Belgium; the first Belgium customer is a fact!

-    The CyBi Selma is very hot at this moment! 4 demonstrations only this month.