Artel Launches Latest Technology for Optimizing Automated Liquid Handlers

At LabAutomation 2010, Artel launched new features of the MVS® Multichannel Verification System, an objective performance assessment and optimization tool for automated liquid handlers. New developments enhance measurement data comparability, increase the speed of volume verification, and allow users to reduce the overall variability of their laboratory processes.

The MVS was demonstrated with automated liquid handlers from Beckman Coulter, Tecan, Agilent, and Hamilton in Artel’s booth at LabAutomation2010, Palm Springs, California, January 24-26, 2010. The ARTEL MVS provides information on both the accuracy and precision of volumes transferred by each channel of an automated liquid handler in one rapid procedure.

“There are a number of exciting developments in automated liquid handling that will positively alter the world of laboratory science. But operating new technology without an objective measurement tool is essentially like driving a car without a dashboard,” said Kirby Pilcher, President, Artel. “Our recent MVS developments are aimed at giving laboratories more powerful information about the performance of their instrumentation. By more fully understanding their automated liquid handlers, laboratories can take steps to measurably improve quality, productivity and data integrity.”