Tailor-made Automation
Anton Paar offers tailor-made automation and robotics solutions for analytical workflows. The interdisciplinary project team transfers your application into efficient, reliable and cost-effective system solutions.
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Anton Paar’s tailor-made automation process leads to reliable and highly efficient application solutions for analytical ...
The close cooperation between Anton Paar’s lab automation experts and product specialists creates significant advantages for customers. From the workflow assessment to the installation of the automation solution customers are involved as necessary to ensure the best outcome.
Anton Paar provides analytical workflow automation solutions to a wide range of industries, including the petrochemical, pharmaceutical, personal care and chemical industries and many more. The automated workflow solutions provided include all the tasks related to the formulation, preparation, handling, multiple analyses, and cleaning of samples.
With Anton Paar’s customized automation solutions you can expect to:
- Decrease total cost per analysis
- Increase output by 24/7 operation
- Relieve staff from repetitive tasks
- Improve reproducibility of analysis results
- Eliminate hazards for operators
Anton Paar Automation and Robotics: The expert in automating tailor-made analytical workflows.
The advantages of tailor-made automation solutions
The most obvious reason to choose a customized analytical automation solution is that there is no off-the-shelf product that meets enough of your requirements.
If one specification needed is a must-have and not available in a standard product a custom-built solution will provide the answer.
Standard products are designed for a wide range of applications and therefore compromise in their functionality. As customized solutions map your unique business processes the exact application requirements are precisely met. Therefore, tailor-made developments provide a way for analytical workflows to achieve their goals more efficiently by significantly improving lab productivity, increasing reliability and cutting labor expenses. Although investment costs are higher for custom solutions, they aim to provide lower total cost of ownership.
Benefit and cost: Strive for the optimum
Analytical automation solutions are capital investments and are justified based on the Return of Investment of a project. Operating cost and investment cost are considered over the complete life cycle of the investment to make decisions based on the total cost of ownership.
The right degree of automation will qualify your project for the budgeting process. Increasing the degree of automation will reduce total cost until a certain optimum is reached and will then increase total cost of ownership. The last 20% to gain complete automation will boost investment cost by around 80%. The optimum degree of automation has to be defined for each application to gain the most productive outcome. Too much automation increases complexity and reduces reliability.
How to define requirement specifications?
Well-defined requirement specifications build the basis for successful analytical automation projects. They influence all issues related to functionality, system design and cost. The requirements in regards to the following points must be defined:
Requirement
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Comment |
| Sample type |
The characteristics of the sample range to be analyzed (e.g. viscosity range) must be determined. |
| Throughput |
The needed sample throughput per day/week as well as required sample throughput distribution have to be defined. |
| Walk-away time requirements |
Storage capacity is one of the major drivers affecting walk-away time requirements. |
| Tolerance level |
The accuracy and precision requirements of the analytical process must be defined. |
| Integration into the existing workflow |
The input and output requirements of the system such as the data handling, LIMS integration, use of existing vials, etc. must be specified. |
| Space requirements |
Space restrictions or the need for a bench top solution must be determined. |
| Degree of automation |
The must-haves must be separated from the nice-to-haves. An extremely long wish list tremendously drives up the cost/benefit ratio. |
