Developments in Microplate Automation

Automation of Routine Microplate Pipetting and Dispensing

Quantitative assays of all sorts are common to many applications in basic science and clinical research. Most of these assays require the movement, either addition or subtraction, of liquid reagents. Historically these assays were performed in test tubes. However, regardless of the assay method employed, laboratories requiring high throughput have often adapted the described protocol to a 96-we...

Technological Developments in Education and Automation

This study employs the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique, an efficiency model, to measure public schools in Thailand. Data came from 455 public upper secondary schools in Northern Thailand. The results reveal that the schools mostly operate inefficiently. To ascertain the efficiency measures, sensitivity analysis reveals the robustness of the resulting efficiency measures on efficiency....

Developments in laboratory automation–just a matter of time

Automatic analysis is well established as a subject area, but there is still no adequate definition of the area that the subject embraces. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), has sought, through its Commission of Analytical Nomenclature, to offer rigorous definitions and to provide a common international terminology. Automation is defined as: 'the use of combinations ...

Automation in clinical chemistry: developments and recent trends

SINCE the late 1940’s the workload of many clinical chemistry laboratories has doubled every 4years and this alone would have provided a stimulus to mechanise, but with the added advantage of the type of work involved forming a particularly fertile base for automation, it is not surprising that in the clinical application of chemistry, automation as we now know it for laboratory work was born, ...

Developments in Intelligent Adaptive and Robust Techniques for Automation and Control Systems