Personalized Lab Automation
Maximizing Testing Efficiency and Medical Value
At Roche, laboratory automated solutions deliver the quality and reliability you expect, with the personalization required by low-, mid-, and high-volume laboratories.
Personalized Lab Automation (PLA) Concept:
- 1. Virtual Automation: Provides control, ensuring quality and efficiency across the lab. Enables sample tracking and reduces manual tasks through cobas software solutions.
- 2. Standalone Automation: Automates pre- and post-analytical tasks, offering maximum efficiency through flexible standalone solutions. It significantly reduces manual steps in the lab, enhancing error handling, safety, and process quality.
- 3. Connected Automation: Includes all benefits of Standalone Automation plus transportation. Physically connecting different instruments allows maximum predictability of time to test results.
These solutions connect commercial laboratories, hospital networks, and independent hospitals.
Key Features:
- Integrated pre-analytics
- Flexible analytics solution
- Integrated post-analytics
- Professional consultancy
- Seamless software solutions
- Comprehensive testing menu
The Complete Solution, Today and Tomorrow
Quality and reliability you can trust.
Visual representation of the cobas® 8100 automated workflow series, showcasing a comprehensive laboratory automation setup with multiple interconnected modules, designed for high throughput and efficiency.
Providing You with Real Value
Workflow Overview:
- Quality Comes First: Early check of sample quality at the pre-analytical stage for maximum workflow efficiency. This involves high-definition camera and liquid level detection, leading to early error detection, reduced workload, and no reagent waste.
- Workflow Your Way: Personalized workflows allow users to choose among primary, aliquot, or mixed workflows.
- Primary sample workflow: Focus on cost efficiency.
- Aliquot workflow: Focus on sample integrity and parallel testing.
- Mixed workflow: Optimizes benefits of both primary tube testing and improved TAT (Turnaround Time).
- Short and Predictable Time to Results: 3D intelligent tube transport offers short and predictable time to results, streamlining the processing of multiple disciplines.
- Flexible Tube Storage: cobas® 8100 offers three different storage areas for tubes, ensuring fast access as soon as the tube is needed.
3-D Intelligent Sample Transportation
Key Transportation Features:
- 3D Bi-directional Tube Transport: Ensures the shortest route with only necessary stops, without delay.
- Clear Destination: Tubes always have a clear destination.
- Module Bypass: Tubes can bypass modules.
- Multi-level Transport: Full and empty sample carriers run on different levels, preventing empty carriers from blocking the line.
- Predictable Time to Results: The system provides a predictable short turnaround time, even during peak laboratory workflow, due to unobstructed sample transportation and fast access to processing steps.
STAT Prioritization: Integrated into all steps of the process, including the pre-analytical phase, sample transport, and analyzers.
Multi-discipline Connectivity: Automates the full menu by connecting to various laboratory disciplines. It offers a broad reagent portfolio, consolidating over 98% of routine serum work area. The system is designed for connectivity with immunoassays, clinical chemistry, hematology, coagulation, selective best-in-class third-party analyzers, and archiving. It fully automates the laboratory process from sample entry to archive, with integrated post-analytic solutions and add-on buffer modules.
Flexible Tube Storage Concepts:
- Module Sample Buffers: For short-term storage, typically for samples needing only one run.
- Add-on/Output Buffer: For mid-term storage, used for add-on requests within the same day or for sample archiving.
- Refrigerated Storage: For long-term storage to ensure sample stability.
Accommodates Your Laboratory's Specific Needs
Visuals depict various configurations of the cobas® 8100 automated workflow series, illustrating its adaptability.
Modular and Scalable:
- Easy on-site growing as needs increase.
- Simple addition of modules for enhanced functionality or higher throughput.
- Easy addition of analyzer modules within an existing analyzer core.
- Simple addition of a new analyzer by expanding the layout.
Building on long-standing experience, high quality standards, proven reliability, and innovative cutting-edge technology, the cobas® 8100 automated workflow series from Roche and Hitachi serves all laboratory automation needs, ensuring consistent delivery regardless of demands.
The cobas® 8100 intelligent tube transport provides a short, predictable time to results, including prioritization for emergency samples. With flexible workflows, early error detection, and fully automated add-on handling, cobas® 8100 allows for personalized solutions to suit individual laboratory needs, ensuring that quality comes first.
System Modules:
Input Station
- Input buffer
- Automatic centrifuge unit
- Sample check module
- Destopper
Output Station
- Restopper flex-cap/screw cap
- Add-on/output buffer
- Output buffer/sorter
Aliquot Station
- Barcode labeler/tube feeder
- Aliquot module
