AutoMate 2500 Family Sample Processing Systems

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 800–1,200 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

Aliquoting*

• Process up to 900 total samples per hour
• Create up to seven aliquots per primary tube
• Measure filling level accurately through conductive tips with graphite fraction
• Transfer the proper volume for samples with single or multiple tests
• Prioritize aliquots to ensure most critical samples are created first, if sample volume is minimal
• Detect clots and route clotted samples for manual processing

Sorting to sample racks

• Sort to generic 50-tube racks or analyzer racks to accommodate transfers to instruments, other laboratory sections or send-out test requirements through an open system architecture
• Create up to 150 sorting locations by subdividing 1,200-sample capacity and up to 24 generic racks
• Freely define and dynamically configure drawers; select the standard 50-position rack or instrument-specific racks
• Re-sort samples from personality racks after analysis, either to next analyzer or sample storage; determine routing by duration or user-defined destination