Alsys High-Performance Laboratory Robot

Alsys International offers automation solutions for laboratory sample preparation to analyze production samples and final products for content and quality. With over 25 years of experience, the company specializes in developing laboratory robots for automated sample preparation in the fertilizer, chemical, mining, and soil industries, performing tasks such as autonomous assessment, converting solid to liquid samples, and dissolving in water or acid.

The Alsys Laboratory Automation Robot provides a range of analytical techniques, including titration, moisture analysis, ion chromatography, and spectrometry, ICP, and can integrate the desired analytical techniques. Alsys International handles data processing, stores all data in an SQL database, and ensures integration with LIMS, SAP, ERP, and IT systems.

The robot is designed to operate in corrosive laboratory environments and is equipped with sensors, safety measures against corrosive vapors, minimal use of harmful chemicals, and compliance with modern quality standards.

The autonomous robot can clean and dry glassware, allowing it to work for up to four days without human intervention. Thanks to this efficiency, laboratories can focus on more complex analyses, with the robot providing automated sample preparation, integrated analysis techniques (ion chromatography, titration and potentiometric determinations, moisture analysis, ICP, flow injection, spectrometry), reliable results, modern data processing, a safe working environment, and extensive operational capabilities without an analyst.

How Does the Robot Work?

The robot is designed to simplify the complex and streamline the intricate.

1. The journey begins with a sample provided through the Alsys sample cups. These are specially designed to be easily transported by the gripper, an extension of the arm, calibrated by our experts for smooth operation.
2. Factory operators or laboratory analysts input the sample into the robot’s data terminal. Here, they can select which analyses to perform for the respective sample.
3. Once the methods are selected and the sample enters the robot via the conveyor belt, the Alsys robot arm transports the sample to various stations that prepare and eventually measure the samples.
4. The robot is controlled by its complex software to perform various methods simultaneously. Every step is executed exactly as in the official method. This means that heating for 25 minutes at 240 degrees Celsius is exactly 25 minutes at 240 degrees Celsius, while other steps are performed simultaneously.
5. After the sample preparation is executed by the different modules, the sample is presented to the analysis equipment within the robot. The measurement is conducted and collected in the Robot’s data terminal.
6. API integration and direct feedback of data via LIMS ensure that the results are processed correctly.

Advantages of Automation

Automation offers many advantages. The robot is designed with efficiency in every step, ensuring faster results thanks to optimized processes. Results are delivered as quickly as possible, without sacrificing accuracy. Fast yet consistent actions provide the highest quality information in the shortest possible time. Our robot is also robustly built to function in challenging laboratory environments. This includes the types of chemicals the robot can handle: hazardous chemicals are not excluded. Employees who would normally have to work with certain dangerous substances can now delegate that task to the robot, allowing them to work safely and healthily on other projects without the risk of injury. Moreover, customization is possible; specifications can be added to the robot for those with particular requirements. While the standard model is more than capable of handling anything thrown at it, it can also be customized for more unique circumstances and needs.

Application Areas

Our High-Performance robot is applicable in multiple industries and for various applications. The robot performs the sample preparation process for heating, dispensing liquids, dispensing solids, weighing on an analytical balance, stirring, UV-light limitations, homogenizing, shaking, moisture determinations, density measurements, integration with IC, ICP, Titration, pH, Spectrophotometer.

If you have to process many samples, require accurate results, complex sample preparation, analyses during nights/weekends, or too much pressure on analysts? Then contact one of our specialists to discover the possibilities of the Lab Robot for your application.