RTS Life Science has announced the availability of a free technical paper concerning the analysis of sample volumes in a store.
Entitled 'Applying Vision Technology to Calculate the Volume of Sample in a Tube' the poster discusses the benefits of RTS's vision system technology.
Presented for the first time at the Drug Discovery 2008 conference in September, the technical poster is authored by Julio Maher, Simon Sheard, David Harding and Sue Jones of RTS Life Science.
It describes how RTS partnered with a major pharmaceutical company to upgrade its tube store with a vision system that routinely audits tubes to calculate sample volumes and identify any particulate matter.
Calculating the precise volume of a residual sample in a tube has always been an inexact science.
Traditional methods include weighing, software or manual analysis.
All of these techniques can prove both time-consuming and inaccurate.
RTS Life Science's technical paper demonstrates how a large pharmaceutical company eliminated these lengthy approaches by incorporating vision system technology into its sample store.
Using a camera mounted in the store, RTS implemented an image analysis stage between sample storage and picking that allowed the volume of liquid in the tubes to be calculated to an accuracy of +/- 10ul.
By applying vision technology to its tube store, the pharmaceutical company can now be confident about the volume of samples in the tubes it receives.
As well as eliminating previous lengthy manual steps, the vision system technology also alerts the customer to tubes where compounds have precipitated out of solution.
