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Laboratory Equipment Vendor Validates Technology with ARTEL MVS
Laboratory Challenge
When CerionX Inc. introduced its new TipCharger™ System to enhance automated laboratory processes, it sought a method able to easily validate and demonstrate the effectiveness of its new technology. The TipCharger generates an atmospheric plasma to clean and sterilize pipette tips used in automated liquid handling environments. The product enables significant reductions in automated liquid handling operating costs posed by pipette tips, and lessens timelines associated with pipette tip wash protocols.
To validate the TipCharger, CerionX required a standard method for confirming pipetting accuracy and precision for tips cleaned with its system. Traditional liquid handling calibration methods such as gravimetry or fluorescence are difficult to administer accurately, and results are difficult to compare.
CerionX wanted a method to measure TipCharger performance in standard terms across liquid handlers and provide results that could be integrated with its customers' data.
Solution
To validate the TipCharger System, CerionX chose the ARTEL MVS. With the MVS, CerionX is able to measure – and prove – the consistent accuracy and precision of volume transfer steps after liquid handler tips are exposed to plasma. The MVS is the only standardized, commercially available technology capable of accurate, precise, and traceable measurement of delivered liquid volumes from automated liquid handlers.
"The MVS is effective for us because it is standardized and foolproof - everything from the bar coding to the fact that samples are stable and ready for use," said Geoffrey Schwartz, Director of Applications, CerionX. "It is a straightforward verification method for us internally as well as for our customers."
The MVS provides peace of mind through a third-party reputation: "This solution provides us with non-subjective data that builds credibility with our customers. Our plasma-based cleaning method is highly effective with solid data behind it – that's the combination our customers need to fully take advantage of their automated environments."
Many leading biotechnology companies use the ARTEL MVS to certify the volume transfer performance of their many liquid handling instrument types. "The MVS is an industry standard so our customers know they are comparing apples-to-apples when they see our results," said Schwartz.
Results
By using the ARTEL MVS to validate the performance of liquid handlers after using TipCharger, CerionX is able to demonstrate the effectiveness of its product. Automated laboratories benefit from a proven technology that can speed their cleaning processes, helping them better maintain the momentum of drug development, better allocate resources, and compete more effectively.
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