Beckman Coulter™ Automate 2500 Systems Recap

Description

The AutoMate family of sample processing systems allows you to streamline pre- and post-analytical processes to help you gain optimal performance and use of resources, eliminating steps between sample receipt and analysis.

When you need to improve efficiency, turn to the AutoMate 2500 family of sample processing systems. The AutoMate 2500 family features Intelligent Sample Banking (ISB) software to deliver an automation system that fits your laboratory's unique needs. The AutoMate family of sample processing systems allows you to streamline pre- and post-analytical processes to help you gain optimal performance and use of resources, eliminating steps between sample receipt and analysis. ISB enhances your automated solution by enabling you to build and manage a sample bank with maximum efficiency and security and increased control over sample traceability.

Advanced capabilities

• Minimize manual handling with automated sample loading and sorting
• Simplify measuring with through-the-label sample volume detection
• Enable fast processing with sorting speeds of 800 to 1,200 tubes per hour
• Reduce manual sample preparation errors and ensure faster, more accurate secondary tube preparation with intelligent aliquoting and tube labeling
• Experience ease of use with intuitive software
• Transfer sample to archiving safely and conveniently with recapper technology

Single point of entry

• Manage sample tubes from entry into the laboratory until archiving
• Re-sort samples for pending test routing or for storage when samples have volume remaining
• Sort STATs to separate locations
• Provide sorting flexibility with up to 24 dynamically configurable rack locations
• Unload and load instrument-specific racks

Tube inspection unit cap color recognition

• Validate sample type against test ordered to prevent errors with cap color analysis
• Detect the newest generation of coded caps

Volume determination

• Gain better sample control with automated measurement of each sample's volume prior to dispensing into aliquot tube or for storage
• Ascertain whether all aliquots can be created through automated measurement of plasma or serum volume
• Allow infrared volume detection of up to three layers of labels on the tube with read-through labels

Specifications

• Operation: Automated
• Type: Capper/Decapper
• For Use With (Equipment): Beckman Coulter Analyzers
• Speed: 1,200 Tubes/hr.