Franek Technologies has developed customised power protection units to safeguard the Wyoming Public Health Laboratory's USD1m investment in critical instrumentation.
The state's Public Health Laboratory had been saddled with 30-40 power outages annually, due to weather and power surges in its public power distribution system, adversely affecting the productivity of the department.
To protect the laboratory's investment in instrumentation and ensure the viability of reportable results against its inherent inconsistent power delivery, it initially investigated acquiring a building-wide central power protection system.
It soon became apparent that this approach was costly and would not provide the level of protection required.
Franek Technologies suggested that the laboratory could cost-effectively install an additional 25 discrete instrument-specific power protection units to protect patient samples and decrease retesting, replacement, calibrator, and reagent costs.
To determine the power protection requirements of the laboratory, the consulting group at Franek Technologies conducted an on-site review and engineering analysis of power consumption.
Based on this analysis, the group made recommendations for optimal protection against brown-outs, power surges, and intra-lab harmonics distortion, as well as for laboratory design to maximise the laboratory's instrumentation potential.
After the installation of the 25 certified Franek Technologies LPS units, the laboratory now has the highest level of power protection available to ensure that the instrumentation, which processes 80,000 samples annually, is performing at its peak.
